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News today that George Soros has joined a group bidding on the Washington Nationals.

Soros, you’ll recall, is Matski’s favorite businessman. As a money-manager to the very rich, Soros almost single-handedly broke Sterling and drove the British economy into near-catastrophe. Still, Soros has consistently demonstrated his commitment to the same principles Bruno and I campaign for — economic opportunity coupled with social responsibility. Soros contributed almost $20 million to progressive candidates in the last election cycle, and can fairly be said to be the eminence gris behind modern Eastern European democracy and cannabis-policy rationalization, among many other notable causes.

So it’s sad — if not surprising, given the MO of the GOP these days — to hear leading Republicans make veiled threats against Soros and Major League Baseball. Drudge reports:

… the very prospect that Soros could have a stake in the team is enough to irritate Congressional Republicans.

“I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes,” said Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (R), who recently convened high-profile steroid hearings.

Davis 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.

It’s sad that the party of business and commerce, the party that — in its own mythology, at least — is the party of opportunity, would stoop so far.

Why Congresspeople are spending good public time worrying about a game is beyond me to begin with. Why they would cast aside the free market principles their own party has so long held up for the sake of petty politics is staggering.