On the plus side, this is time spent not raising taxes...

Once again, we witness the full flowering of Washingtonitis from Senator Arlen Specter:

In a phone interview Thursday with The New York Times, Specter said the committee at some point will call on Goodell to discuss why the league destroyed the tapes that revealed the Patriots had been spying on the competition.

"That requires an explanation," Specter told The Times. "The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It's analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes, or any time you have records destroyed."

I said it before, I'll say it again. "Does anyone else ever hear the phrase "contempt of congress" and wonder where to volunteer?" Consider this to be yet another expression of my contempt for this congress.