Clemens, Congress and Cynicism

I watched a good deal of the Clemens/McNamee hearings before Congress and likely don't have that much more to add about it that others haven't already said. I mean, to me, it is so obvious that Clemens is lying and as I said from the start, he just thought he could rise above it all - being who he is -- but instead he just dug himself a hole and then just kept digging and digging.

I would have to say that out of Yankees, Andy Pettitte is one that I have always had some level of admiration for, and I am glad that he told the truth, but I can't believe Congress didn't make him testify at this thing. That being said, I also think that he may not have been able to put up with the scrutiny sitting next to Clemens and he could very easily have ended the day with a "you know, perhaps I did misremember after all." THEN where would they be?? At least this way, his deposition did the talking and there can't be any doubt.

McNamee is a jerk, there's no doubt, but it's silly to think that Clemens would allow him to inject his WIFE with HGH but... he himself had never even THOUGHT of it. He really expects people to believe that? Oh, and nice touch throwing your wife (not to mention your deceased mother) under the bus, Rog. "Happy Valentine's Day, darling!" You know, nothing says romance quite like testifying before Congress, the nation and your children that mommy injected herself with the bad stuff you've been telling them not to do all those years. And that the reason you took injections of anything to begin with, was because your mother told you B-12 was good stuff. Wow.

Enough about that -- let's talk for one moment about the real sham here.

I resented Clemens wrapping himself in the flag out of desperation and his comments about how he's so easy to find a former president found him in a
deer blind in Texas. I mean, this blatant attempt to present himself as an American Hero like he just came back from Iraq was so.... obviously pitiful, surely he didn't think any of the members of Congress in the hearing were going to fall for it???

Surely??

Clemens visited the members of Congress days ahead of time, one can assume to just pop in and say a nice 'hi-ho and I just happen to have some autographed baseballs and posters here'. To see this 'hearing' split down the party lines and the blatant pandering to ROGER CLEMENS by some of these Republican Congress members was a travesty. I am terrified to think how easily they fold under really important stuff.

I mean, if they cow down to someone like Roger Clemens, just what will they do in the presence of someone with real potential power?

I think every one of them should be thrown out on their butts out in the street, and I'm not kidding.