Clemens

This is a good piece on sports and Congress and why Clemens expected to be able to go into Congress completely unprepared, except for having an Enron attorney, and lie his way out of trouble.

How disorienting it must have been for Clemens, then, to face the hilariously red-faced Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who has the bristling haircut of a 10-year-old boy, carrying on about whether the star witness had “carried Band-Aids for his butt if he bled” through his “designer pants” after receiving a shot of something powerful in his hind quarters. The whole Tom Davis litany was delivered as Tom Davis, seven-term congressman, sat beneath a gilded, gold-framed oil painting of … Tom Davis.

On a related note, someone really needs to make a Mr. Toad-style cartoon about the House Oversight Committee, because, well, just look at Waxman.