It’s apparent that the Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee Congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. is nothing but a circus. Of course, sometimes a circus is fun to watch.

Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and his committee on Oversight and Government Reform are wasting time. They should be checking into the White House e-mails or waste, fraud and abuse in the Federal Government. Maybe they should check into $700 hammers or something that the DoD purchased that was costly, but not if a pitcher was given a shot in the butt by a trainer to improve performance in a game – a game.

Waxman has shown that he is not a fan of Clemens. Waxman, unfortunately, runs this committee and came across as a jerk. Waxman praised McNamee for coming forward and seemed to favor McNamee throughout the hearing. Waxman’s committee is like a Kangaroo Court with many has-been lawyers. That’s really too bad, but Waxman’s leadership and many of his committee members has shown us what is wrong with Washington, D.C.

There’s real work to do in Washington, and this is not it.

Major League Baseball (MLB) as a whole needs fixed. That’s the whole problem. MLB fell in love with the home-run extravaganza a few years back and did not see the big picture: Players were taking performance enhancing drugs to throw harder, run faster and hit the ball further and baseball loved the money it was bringing in.

I’m not an attorney (I don’t even play one on TV) but when you have someone like McNamee who has given false statements to authorities in the past and maybe lied to protect himself and get special treatment, it is hard to believe anything he says. I doubt his testimony would hold up in a real court. Only two people really know if Roger Clemens took anything to improve his performance or not. One (McNamee) seems to have a shaded past and will say and do most anything to save himself, including ruining Roger Clemens’ life.