Stupid Democrat Looking For Attention

Senate Durbin, approiately named Dick (h/t Jerry Doyle) is seeking attention for himself by wanting to hold Senate hearings on the bounties in the NFL and other sports.
From ESPN:
The Senate wants to grill the NFL about bounties. And the NBA, NHL, NCAA and Major League Baseball are invited, too.
Sen. Dick Durbin is setting up a Judiciary Committee hearing about bounties in professional football and other major sports in the wake of news that New Orleans Saints players received extra cash for hits that hurt particular opponents.
The assistant Senate majority leader, an Illinois Democrat, said Thursday he wants to examine whether federal law should make such bounty systems a crime.
"Let's be real basic about it here. If this activity were taking place off of a sporting field, away from a court, nobody would have a second thought [about whether it's wrong]. 'You mean, someone paid you to go out and hurt someone?' " Durbin said in a telephone interview before raising the issue on the floor of the Senate.
"It goes way beyond the rules of any sporting contest, at least team contest, to intentionally inflict harm on another person for a financial reward," he said.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7722853/new-orleans-saints-senator-dick-durbin-sets-hearing-bounties-nfl
What a dick.  The NFL has handled the bounty problem quite sufficiently with the use of fines and suspensions.  Why does the dick from Illinois want to make this against the law?  Why would he want to throw people in jail for a problem the NFL is handling?
What a dick, Durbin is.