Unemployment is at nearly 10 percent, and Congress has just passed a health care bill that contains higher taxes and is likely to affect many insured persons’ health care plans negatively. The president is pushing for carbon limitation rules that will hamper new hiring and cause firms to outsource many good manufacturing jobs. The deficit is expected to be greater than a trillion dollars for the second year in a row.
So how’s this for a good use of Congressional time: a subcommittee hearing about smokeless tobacco use by baseball players. It’s chaired by Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., who wonders why smokeless tobacco is banned in the minors but allowed in the majors.
