Jackie Speier is right, but it doesn't matter anymore.

NASCAR has a problem.

His name is Kurt Busch.

On September 26, the Dover, Delaware police department received word from Busch's then-girlfriend that she was drilled into the wall three times by Busch, among other allegations.

Yep, MORE domestic violence.

Today, NASCAR's chairman, Brian France said that, while Busch is still being investigated, NASCAR will take no action against him.

Jackie Speier, a Democrat from San Francisco in Congress, has called him out on this, according to MSN:

"NASCAR would rather let Mr. Busch drive for the remainder of the racing season than take a stance on violence against women. While he rounds the track, the legal processes for his domestic violence charges race forward as well. Until his legal proceedings end, NASCAR should put Mr. Busch's car in park. The charges are horrifying, and NASCAR's inaction sends a clear signal to drivers that owners do not take these violent actions seriously."

I'm about to catch a lot of shit for what I'm about to say, but this is how bad things are in sports today, and Speier should know this after the Santa Clara County situation with Ray McDonald:

Number One:  Remove violence against women (and others considered lesser than athletic gods), and you have no corporate sports left.  

I'm not going to justify their actions, nor am I going to say that every player or owner or the like does this.

Number Two:  If you haven't figured out yet that NASCAR is more about the 43 sets of billboards going around the track than anything to take violence against anyone seriously, you haven't been following NASCAR at all.

I could count several incidents just with Kurt Busch.  I could probably also count a number more with just about any other.  If there is a professional sport that cares less about the sanctity of it's sporting events than NASCAR, they'd have to be run by Roger Goodell at this point.

If we were actually to give Damn #1 (much less Damn #2) about the sport's sanctity, there'd be at least FOUR drivers parked last week, and one of them is racing for the championship after winning in Phoenix, a little bitch named Harvick who decided to stir the pot against a hated driver by pushing him from behind in the middle of a fracas to start a bigger one.

Congresswoman Speier, remember what NASCAR still is, even with it's attempts to go national:  A Southern redneck sport.  

Number Three, and this is probably the one that's going to get more people pissed than anything:  Domestic violence, be it against wife, child, or property, has become a central part of the sports experience in this country.

And that's why you're not going to get anything changed, though you are right, Congresswoman Speier.

The (perceived) right of people to kick the shit out of anything in their way over sporting events (and this would probably apply here, Busch was apparently pissed at yet another poor qualifying performance at Dover before the incident) has become part of the sports experience.

It, effectively, is the American sports hooliganism.  Since most teams are not in the same cities with ethnic or religious backdrops like soccer often has, people resort to this.

Have we learned nothing from Rapeist Winston, Ray "Wifebeater" Rice, and Adrian "Child Killer(?)" Peterson???