Talkin' trash to the garbage around me.

25 April, 2006

Socialist softball

Okay, the reason I'm posting this (other than for cheap laughs at the sight of GOP congressional aides acting with the emotional maturity of insecure eight-year olds) is because at least one person reading this blog has a connection (at least a tenuous connection) to one of the teams mentioned in this article, and I guess I'm just curious as to whether or not these asshats are really this petty and stupid. Via the incomparable digby:
Amid all the partisan rancor of congressional politics, the softball league has for 37 years been a rare case of bipartisan civility, an opportunity for Democratic and Republican aides to sneak out of work a bit early and take the field in the name of the lawmaker, committee or federal agency they work for.

This year, the league will be missing something: a lot of the Republicans.

During the off-season, a group of Republican teams seceded from the league after accusing its Democratic commissioner, Gary Caruso, of running a socialist year-end playoff system that gives below-average teams an unfair chance to win the championship.

The league "is all about Softball Welfare -- aiding the weak by punishing the strong," the pitcher of one Republican team told Mr. Caruso in an email. "The commissioner has a long-standing policy of punishing success and rewarding failure. He's a Democrat. Waddya' expect?" read another email, from Gary Mahmoud, the coach of BoehnerLand, a team from the office of Republican Majority Leader John Boehner.
Oh, the third reason I posted? "BoehnerLand." Sometimes this blog writes itself.