The Republicans are apparently warning MLB about selling the Washington Nationals to a ownership group that includes George Soros. You might remember that Soros was a major donor to some of the groups opposing President Bush. He believed (and even wrote a book about) the dangers inherent in Bush’s foreign policy.

“I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes,” said Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (R), the Northern Virginia lawmaker who recently convened high-profile steroid hearings. “I don’t think they want to get involved in a political fight.”

Davis, whose panel also oversees District of Columbia issues, said that if a Soros sale went through, “I don’t think it’s the Nats that get hurt. I think it’s Major League Baseball that gets hurt. They enjoy all sorts of exemptions” from anti-trust laws.

The goddamn “Government Reform Chairman” is advocating partisan cronyism. WTF? I mean, seriously, where the hell are we in this country that this is acceptable? I think it’s time to rethink how we deal with issues like this… it’s unbelievable that this is acceptable in our country. We’re behaving more and more like the piddly third-world banana republics we often mock.

More information on the rank hypocrisy of this all at Stone Court.