Ladies and gentlemen, in a time where unemployment in this country is creeping up on 10%; where a broadcast company laid off three percent of it's workforce Wednesday (including a few friends of mine); where people are getting further and further behind on their mortgage payments and having their homes and life savings taken away; where your federal government has taken over both the banking and auto industry; where we are still fighting a war in a foreign land; where socialized medicine isabout to come to a doctor near you and where our liberal polices of border enforcement are biting us in the form of drugs, crime and disease, your friends at the United States Congress have far more weighty issues to deal with.

A grandstanding representative from Texas, Joe Barton, has called a Friday hearing to discuss the BCS.  Several commissioners and BCS officials have been asked to testify as to why the BCS is in place.  Barton, of course, represents the good citizens of Texas who feel they got screwed this year when the Longhorns didn't make the championship game.  They also want to speak up for the citizens of Utah who feel that by beating Alabama in the Sugar Bowl entitled them to be ranked first (despite a schedule most high schools could have faired well against.) 

My question is and continues to be is this any business of congress?  Don't they have enough on their plates already without taking on something as frivolous as college football?  And, isn't it true that these hearings are held to make guys like barton look like heroes in their home districts, sticking up for the poor, downtrodden Texas Longhorns?

I can't emphasize enough: This crap is a total waste of your money as a taxpayer.  In the condition this country is in now, can we afford to have our hard earned money squandered by guys like Barton, Arlen Sphincter (NFL Network hearings) and Henry Waxman (Baseball hearings) over things that, to be honest, are totally insignificant to the issues that real people every day.  I love sports, but I'm not addle minded enough to believe that congress coming up with a BCS playoff will be the tonic that turns the recession around, ends the war in Iraq and keeps our borders safe. 

Please, if you live in any of these guys districts, vote their sorry asses out of office next time around and let's keep sports out of congress, where it doesn't belong.