Towns “doesn’t want to talk about the past”

From Robert Brodsky:

Maybe the new House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns, D-NY, “misremembers” how much fun, at least for the media, the past few hearings on steroid abuse in major league baseball have been.

In an announcement today, Towns said he has no plans to hold a follow-up hearing in light of revelations that Yankees superstar third baseman has admitted to using steroids:

“The news that another one of baseball’s premier playersâ€"in addition to another 103 unnamed playersâ€"used performance enhancing drugs is disturbing and sends yet another horrible message to our young people.

“With unemployment in this country approaching double digits and our constituents’ very livelihoods being threatened by the nation’s economic woes, I intend to focus on passing President Obama’s Economic Recovery legislation to get Americans back to work to fix our sinking economy. The American people need leaders who will focus on stemming job losses and getting credit to flow in the marketplace before hearing from yet another person who cheated both himself and the game of baseball.

“The Committee began this investigation in the face of a weak and ineffective drug testing policy that compromised the integrity of Major League Baseball. Now that baseball is implementing one of the most comprehensive drug testing policies in major league sports, I look forward to monitoring how well the policy is working to ensure the credibility of our national pastime.”