Tarnished Tiger

There is one good thing to come out of the Tiger Woods/2:30 a.m. crash/mistress fiasco.

And that would be that a member of the U.S. House is abandoning his bizarre effort to bestow the Congressional Gold Medal on Tiger.

Yes, Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) is finally conceding this bogey.

The star-struck rep is withdrawing the bill he had filed “To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Tiger Woods, in recognition of his service to the nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship, and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people.”

Yikes. Doesn’t this clown have anything better to do? Doesn’t he have any shame? Doesn’t he understand that this prestigious award is meant for truly special humanitarians and heroes, not jocks?

Of course the answers to the above questions are “no,” “no” and “no.”

Wacky Baca should have been censured by his House colleagues for Extreme Stupidity when he proposed this nonsense.

Then again, if a congressman got censured every time he committed Extreme Stupidity, nothing would get done in the House or Senate. (Which might not be a bad thing.)

Oh, and upon further review, I’d like to amend my previous statement that this is the only good thing to come out of the Tiger Woods/2:30 a.m. crash/mistress fiasco.

Another good thing – if you’re not Tiger or his poor wife, that is – is that late-night comedians now have lots of juicy material to work with.

And Tiger will have to very careful at future press conferences on how he uses words like “stroke,” “ball” and “shaft.”

Hey, someone had to point that out.