Miguel Tejada charged with lying to Congress

[ck4829]

All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to Congress about steroids. Tejada is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday where he is expected to plead guilty.

The charges against Tejada, who currently plays for the Houston Astros, were outlined in documents filed in Washington federal court on Tuesday.

The documents indicate that a plea agreement has been reached with Tejada.

Messages left for his attorney, Mark Tuohey, were not immediately returned.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/tejada_steroids

Now, why is this important?

Ahem...

A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

In a joint hearing last week of the Senate Energy and Commerce committees, the chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips said their firms did not participate in the 2001 task force. The president of Shell Oil said his company did not participate "to my knowledge," and the chief of BP America Inc. said he did not know.

And even when not under oath, a person can be fined or imprisoned for up to five years for making "any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation" to Congress.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html

[Parche]

1. what about Karl Rove

isnt that more important......

:grr: :grr:

[rurallib]

2. They can nail Tejada for lying but not Gonzalez, Cheney, Mukasey,

Rice, Card, Rove, .............
Way to fucking go again, Congress of the USA!

[ck4829]

3. Self-kick for the next day

[Chulanowa]

4. Tejada's not part of the Brotehrhood of the Beltway

And that's all this story is.

Honestly, sometimes I wonder if the Republican method of "fuck the law, all of it" isn't better than the dog and pony show the Democrats tend to put on to look "tough."

We have an entire cabal of war criminals sipping juleps, and Democrats are falling over themselves to be first at the door to pronounce Blago's guilt and need for massive punishment - even without a trial or much of an investigation. The motherfuckers who let New orleans drown and awarded the guy responsible are planning to make millions more on speaking tours, but Miguel Tejada is getting dragged to the inquisition for juicing.

Please, please democrats... if you're not going to enforce the law, then don't give us a big glitzy show about how you're pretending to. I can't take it.