Just when I thought Dick Durbin could not get any more irrelevant, he never fails to come through. A couple of weeks ago, he was railing against Bank of America calling for a boycott of a specific American company, an overreach of the power and duty of a U.S. Senator perhaps unequaled in the nation's history. Last Tuesday as the World Series was about to get underway, it was indeed the Illinois Senator leading the charge against terrorism ... oh wait, no ... against joblessness ... oh wait, no ... against the debt ... oh wait, no ... against the sagging economy ... oh wait, no ... against chewing tobacco! As everyone knows, this crusade is featured prominently in the Article 1 Section 8 which outlines the duties of the Legislative Branch.
Along with three other senators, Durbin stood up for the children of America by urging the Major League Baseball Players Association in a letter, to ban the use of tobacco products by its players . Now at first blush, this appears to be a noble cause and well worth the effort of the senators to pursue. But why? Does anyone think these men really give a hoot about what children see on Television? Do you see them standing up against the violence or sex that is so prevalent in today's programming? No. So to say this is little more than grandstanding is as big an understatement as saying that these Sentors must have no real work, because this is certainly not what we pay them to do. The National Cancer Society? Sure. MACT (Mothers Against Chewing Tobacco - if such an organization existed)? Absolutely. Four senators paid to go to Washington to do the peoples' business legislatively? Absolute nonsense, especially with the nation in the state it's in. Gentlemen, this is none of your business. Neither this, nor the next publicity-seeking cause into which you think you must interject yourself.
First the recommendation of the boycott of an American bank, now the recommendation to ban chaw on television. Is there a single person left out there who doesn't think the Federal Government, led by Dick Durbin, has vastly overreached?
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