Republicans Secede from Hill Softball League

[Rose Siding]

They are literally taking the ball and going home -

Softball on the Mall Was Bipartisan Fun Till Politics Intruded (WSJ)

Starting this week, hundreds of young Capitol Hill aides will indulge in an annual rite of spring here by changing out of their business suits and heading over to the National Mall to play in the Congressional Softball League......

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.

The softball coup is a "reflection of how partisan and Republican this town has really become since Republicans took control," responds Mr. Caruso, a longtime Democratic aide who worked for congressmen in the 1980s and '90s. "Republicans come here and want to bash your head in. And if they don't get their way, they pick up the ball and go home."

[Suich]

1. So they're going to take their ball and go home?

What a bunch of pinheads!!!

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republican sissies

Can't compete, so they run away and whine.

Just like their leader, George AWOL Bush.

Bush was a shitty ball player, too, couldn't make any team at all -- and so instead pranced around as an elite preppy cheerleader.

What a nutmegger. (and he pretends he is a Texan, Bwa ha ha)

[justgamma]

3. Do you suppose they feel the same way

about their handicaps in golf?

[sharp_stick]

4. Yet another reason to hate republicans

Whining little shits. We really need to take our country back so these assholes can go back to what they do best complain on talk radio.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. What.A.Bunch.Of Spoiled.Bratty.Assclowns

Unbelievable.

This is a fucking RECREATION league.

What happened to comradarie?

These poeple are like some Army From Hell. They absolutely live and breathe hatred.

[Rose Siding]

7. Maybe the Dems wouldn't approve their new uniforms

or "equipment"
http://www.hobbybunker.com.nyud.net:8090/images/products/35231.jpg

[Stinky The Clown]

8. You mean the liddle brown shirts and stick-on moustaches they all sport

or: The Huns .... The Mongols ..... The Invading Hoardes .... Ghengis Khan ... Khubli Khan ... Georgie Khant.

[rockymountaindem]

6. I heard a similar story straight from a former Democratic Congressman

I believe his name was Carr, from Michigan. He came to speak at my university in Canada along with a retired Republican Rep. from Florida. Mr. Carr said that one of the biggest changes the Republicans made in 1994 was the banning (for all intents and purposes) of the freshmen Repub. lawmakers from using the Capitol Hill Gym. This, Carr said, was to prevent friendship bonds from developping among Republicans and Democrats, thus preventing compromise which was the last thing Gingrich and crew wanted. The Republican, of course, disagreed, but Carr insisted that the new crop of Republicans wants to create a mindset that their counterparts on the other side of the aisle are the enemy.

On the other hand, the Democrats now have the whole gym to themselves.

[msu2ba]

9. BonerLand???.....

.....They wish!