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...although the House Committee on Government Reform stopped short of conjuring up the ghost of Joe McCarthy in an attempt to scare Mark McGwire into admitting his once-legendary bat speed was fueled with THG and HGH, the theater—or hearing, to be official—was imbued with a sufficient sense of the surreal to make any rational baseball fan question what good could reasonably come from such staged drama...
Into this steadily improving situation stepped the Reform Committee, tearing open a healing wound and pouring a little salt in it for good measure. Fans surely do deserve a sincere commitment from baseball to clean up the game, but they had already received that commitment prior to the events of last Thursday, and will continue to receive it from within the baseball establishment, without the help of showboating politicians...
Particularly alarming is the fact that one of the leading forces behind the Schiavo legislation was the seemingly misnamed House Government Reform Committee. This is the same group that intruded into the internal affairs of Major League Baseball by forcing players and officials to testify at hearings last Thursday, which can only be aptly described as political grandstanding. If the committee charged with government reform instead focuses on its enlargement, and intrudes into the rights of states and independent organizations, we cannot take seriously claims that legislation can be made to apply to one individual without general repercussions...
Einkauf outlined a few tentative “micro” recommendations to the UC, which he stressed were contingent on the Reform Commission’s meeting on Tuesday...
...Assistant Secretary Jia Fang ’08 said that she thinks the Reform Commission will have the support of the UC because of its efforts to get everyone involved in the process...