Your state's Senator might be a schmo

If you thought Roger Clemens and Chuck Knoblauch going before Congress to testify about steroid use wasn't ludicrous enough, then you'll be happy to know that the NFL is next in line. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter has requested a Senate judiciary committee on Spygate, and why the tapes the Pats recorded were destroyed by Roger Goodell.

This is the sort of Bridge to Nowhere nonsense that emphasizes why Americans hate their politicians. How can Specter reasonably say that he is representing the issues of America when he's tackling a football controversy, one that was resolved five months ago.

It's incredibly asinine to put so much importance into the destruction of some football tapes when there has been discarded footage of waterboarding and CIA interrogations. Hell, the original Moonlanding tapes are missing, can't he complain about that? What's next, an investigation into why footage of Steve Irwin's on-screen death was destroyed?

But this is just one misconceived plan that most politicians make every day, they just don't choose as high-profile a subject as the NFL. That's why the latest amendment in the Constitution dictates how much money a Congressman should earn, yet there are still homes in New Orleans without power.