Beware! The GOP is scrunitinizing your ... baseball team?

[BlackShanglan]

Is there nothing too petty or miniscule to be turned into bombastic and vaguely threatening political rhetoric?

Republicans Suggest Backlash Against Baseball If Soros Group Wins Bid To Buy Nationals
Mon Jun 27 2005 09:51:22 ET

Despite the Washington Nationals' successful start to the season, to some Capitol Hill Republicans there is a dark cloud on the Nats' horizon: the potential that their newly adopted home team could be purchased by billionaire financier George Soros!

Soros has joined an ownership bid being led by entrepreneur Jonathan Ledecky that is angling to take over the Nats, who are currently owned by Major League Baseball.

ROLL CALL reports: Soros pumped more than $20 million in the last cycle into groups seeking to unseat President Bush and elect Democrats and relates that the very prospect that Soros could have a stake in the team is enough to irritate Congressional Republicans.

"I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes," said Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (R), who recently convened high-profile steroid hearings.

Davis said that if a Soros sale went through, "I don't think it's the Nats that get hurt. I think it's Major League Baseball that gets hurt.

They enjoy all sorts of exemptions' from anti-trust laws. Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.), vice chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that covers the District of Columbia budget, said if Soros buys the team and seeks public funding for a new stadium or anything else, the GOP attitude would be, "Let him pay for it."

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You know, this has done more than every thread on obscenity combined to convince me that the GOP really is spinning madly out of control on a crusade to take over the planet. Now MLB has to quake in fear at the tread of the RNC?

Shanglan

 

[rgraham666]

In the paranoid fantasy world the neo-Marxists live in, there's only us and them.

Them must be fought at every step of the way to prevent the dilution of our natural bodily fluids.

Otherwise, you know what will happen? Freedom and tolerance will break out and the neo-Marxists will be reduced to blogging in their parent's basements and being widely ignored.

The horror, the horror.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Is there nothing too petty or miniscule to be turned into bombastic and vaguely threatening political rhetoric?



You know, this has done more than every thread on obscenity combined to convince me that the GOP really is spinning madly out of control on a crusade to take over the planet. Now MLB has to quake in fear at the tread of the RNC?

Shanglan

Lets start with a diclaimer, i don't like Soros.

Let's follow it with the obvious, the GOP dislikes him far more than I do.

Let's look at it this way. He's a Democrat, he's a PITA to the GOP, but, he's bloody rich and the laws they have passed that so effectively serve their on corporate and fat cat interests serve him, so there isn't a lot they can do abou thim.

This seems more like little good ole petty meaness directed at someone you can't touch otherwise.

I might note too that one of the people quoted is Tom Delay. the man who was threatening the Judiciary a few months ago. I don't think there is anyone he wouldn't threaten with Congressional action.

He's the kind of petty, vengeful, powermad, moron who would probably send the pope a subpeona to have God appear before his committee and answer for a natural disaster .

 

[thebullet]

Please, Please GOD!!!! Let Soros buy the Phillies. And then pour enough money into the franchise that even the morons in the front office could buy a few good players.

I'm not asking for much, God. Just someone with deep pockets who wants to win.

I don't care if he's a communist or a nazi. Hell, I'd even go for a neoCon. Screw the Nationals. Bring Soros to the Phillies!