Texas Congressman Joe Barton likened the Bowl Championship Series to communism in hearings today in Washington.

In a related story, Texas Congressman Joe Barton is an idiot.

I’m sorry Texas didn’t get to play in the Championship Game. Really, I am. But blame your Big 12 tiebreakers, okay?

Barton, the top Republican on the committee, said at the hearing that efforts to tinker with the BCS were bound to fail.

“It’s like communism,” he said. “You can’t fix it.”

He quipped that the BCS should drop the “C” from its name because it doesn’t represent a true championship.

“Call it the ‘BS’ system,” he said to laughter.

Congratulations, Congressman. Everybody else made that joke in 2000.

A request to the United States Congress: fix the f***ing country first, then we’ll worry about the goddamn BCS. Health care, the economy, national defense, all that stuff. Get that sorted, then you can waste our time and the taxpayers’ money holding hearings about the goddamn BCS.

You want a playoff? I want a playoff, too. Great. But keep Congress out of it.

Of course Utah is getting hosed. Utah is supposed to get hosed because Utah plays in the Mountain West Conference. Join the Pac-10, then we’ll talk.

The BCS favors power schools from power conferences. Duh. That’s not communism. That’s capitalism. You remember capitalism, right? Only you can’t scare people and get them up in arms by saying you’re against capitalism. You have to give them a red menace to take up pitchforks against.

I guess the people in Texas were okay with Richard Nixon declaring the Longhorns the national champions in 1969 by fiat. But now? Nah, gotta have a playoff. Gotta call in Congress to get it done.

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