Time To Let It Go

Well, that was anticlimactic.

Two days into the Roger Clemens perjury trial, the judge declared a mistrial as the prosecution showed a videotape that had been previously ruled inadmissible as evidence. Now, Clemens gets to walk free until at least September 2, when another court date is scheduled to determine whether or not the federal government will attempt to try him again.

Now, the total cost of this two day waste of time? Millions of dollars and several years of the government's time. Yeah, that was worth it. The United States is $14,500,619,727,103 in debt as of right now, and climbing. The government is having problems agreeing on putting together a budget that will attempt to curb federal spending, yet they can waste all that time and money on this?

And do not believe the garbage that Congress is spewing about how this is about showing that no one is able to get away with lying to them. Back in 1994 in a hearing chaired by the same Harry Waxman that was chairing the steroids hearing, the CEOs of seven tobacco companies all declared - under oath - that they believed that nicotine was not addictive. Seventeen years later, none of them have been brought up for perjury. Guess their summons got lost in the mail. Or maybe it isn't glamorous to prosecute the CEOs of companies that spend so much money on Capitol Hill, making sure that their lobbyists get the bribes to the right people.

This was never about steroids or trying to 'clean up the game', as these people claim. This was about face time. This was about being able to make pithy comments that would get replayed over and over again, as they claimed 'moral outrage'. This was never about protecting the youth of America, and making sure that their heroes remain untarnished. This was about hypocrisy, since everyone in Congress lies to one another on a continual basis. If lying to Congress is such a big deal, then every single Congressman should be prosecuted. These people are basically getting free advertising while wasting the taxpayers money.

In the end, nothing got resolved. Clemens walks free due to a legal error, and no one aside from him knows if he lied to Congress or not. And at this point, no one really cares either.