{"id":2568,"date":"2009-12-09T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2009-12-09T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:37:09","slug":"congress-votes-%e2%80%a6-on-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2568\/congress-votes-%e2%80%a6-on-college-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Votes \u2026 On College Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proving that Congress can \u201cwalk and chew gum at the same time,\u201d<\/span><\/a> the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to ban NCAA Division I football from holding a \u201cnational championship\u201d unless it\u2019s the product of a playoff system. What!?<\/p>\n

Sadly, during the voice vote there was only one enthusiastic \u201cNo\u201d vote from John Barrow (D-GA).<\/p>\n

Congress loves power, and this vote is a perfect example of how everything, no matter how trivial (sports), is supposedly under their domain.\u00a0 ‘Mandating that everyone get health insurance?\u00a0 We can do that.\u00a0 Controlling all political speech?\u00a0 We run this show!\u00a0 Mandating how college football players spend their postseason?\u00a0 Sure, we watch college football and we personally prefer a playoff system.’<\/p>\n

Republicans and Democrats deserve equal criticism.\u00a0 The legislation is actually sponsored by Republican Joe Barton (TX).\u00a0 Of course, if Texas had gone<\/span><\/a> to the national championship game last year, then some representative from Oklahoma would have cried foul and tried to change the system.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s vote is just one example of the blind arrogance exhibited by our representatives on a daily basis.\u00a0 Power is king on the Hill.<\/p>\n

It seems that Congress is little different from high school social politics.\u00a0 Everyone travels in cliques (known as caucuses); everyone wants to be popular (leader, chairman or even President) and there are plenty of scandals involving drugs<\/span><\/a> and cheating<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I guess in this metaphor that makes voters the parents of Congress.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame that throwing Congress out of office every two years is the only punishment voters can inflict upon their \u201chonorable\u201d representatives.\u00a0 (At what point are we allowed to stop calling them honorable?)<\/p>\n

You can read the bill, H.R. 390 \u201cThe College Football Playoff Act,\u201d here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Here<\/span><\/a> is the markup information from today\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proving that Congress can \u201cwalk and chew gum at the same time,\u201d the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to ban NCAA Division I football from holding a \u201cnational championship\u201d unless it\u2019s the product of a playoff system. What!? Sadly, during the voice vote there was only one enthusiastic \u201cNo\u201d vote from John Barrow (D-GA). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,621,295,619,620],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-fail","tag-football","tag-joe-barton","tag-john-barrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}