Our Government at Work

from The Idaho Statesman:

The political rhetoric surrounding college football's Bowl Championship Series intensifies Friday in Washington, D.C. - and Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier will be part of the show.

Bleymaier is one of four college football officials scheduled to testify in front of a House of Representatives subcommittee in a hearing designed to push the sport closer to a playoff system. The idea has the support of President Barack Obama, which has stoked the interest of Congress again. The BCS was a hot topic there in 2005, too.

Congress is attacking two central issues - the lack of a "true" national champion and the imbalanced distribution of revenue, which favors the more powerful conferences.

"We are trying to create enough public pressure to cause them to switch voluntarily to a playoff system," Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said, according to ESPN.com. "I have not yet pushed the bill. I emphasize the word 'yet.' If our friends at the BCS sit on their hands and yawn, this legislation could end up on the president's desk for his signature."

In other words, if they don't "voluntarily" do what we want, we'll make 'em!

Aside from that bald threat, what we have here in these days of a collapsing economy, our troops engaged in wars, threats to health (overstated or not) & security, a vacancy on the High Court, a reserve bank that screams to be audited, among so many other things, we have the government sticking it's nose into college sports.

This subcommittee would make a great list of Congresspeople to be recalled/impeached. It's past time we wake up and do something about these people.