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Waxman: A Thorn in Bush’s Side

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Posted on Nov 25, 2006
Henry Waxman
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Rep. Henry Waxman (Truthdig’s own congressman) spent his years in the minority generating headlines for his investigations into abuses of power and corruption.  Now that the Dems have taken over, he will have some teeth to sink into the Bush administration’s excesses.


AP:

LOS ANGELES (AP)—The lawmaker poised to cause the Bush administration’s biggest headaches when Democrats take control of Congress may just be a grocer’s son from Watts who’s hardly a household name off Capitol Hill.

Rep. Henry Waxman has spent the last six years waging a guerrilla campaign against the White House and its corporate allies, launching searing investigations into everything from military contracts to Medicare prices from his perch on the Government Reform Committee.

In January, Waxman becomes committee chairman - and thus the lead congressional hound of an administration many Democrats feel has blundered badly as it expanded the power of the executive branch.

Waxman’s biggest challenge as he mulls what to probe?

“The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose,” he said.

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By Broiler, November 27, 2006 at 6:24 am Link to this comment
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Wake us up when some **** finally hits the fan.
Pelosi has already pardoned them. Thanks a lot
grandma! Again proving we have a one party system.

You want proof? Read Carville and Begala’s
latest book and you get all pumped up that
the Dems have some integrity. Then go to
Carville’s website and check out his list
of corporate clients. Everybody’s corrupt
and everbody’s in bed with corporate lobbyists.

Welcome to the matrix America!

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By felicity, November 26, 2006 at 10:36 am Link to this comment
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The big question is whether he will also be a thorn in the side of Dems who have consistently side-lined the likes of Kucinich, Feingold and Waxman - the voices literally in the wilderness where mega-campaign money usually doesn’t exist.

As long as H. Clinton can be acclaimed as the Dem front-runner in 2008 based almost solely on the size of her campaign chest, the Waxmans of American politics will have little clout. 

There is a major flaw in our system of government and until it is corrected I’m afraid we will experience more of the same with a few conciliatory tweaks to make us think we’re getting somewhere.  (Does anyone REALLY expect a single-payer healthcare system now that Dems are in control of the Houses?)

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By Don Knutsen, November 26, 2006 at 9:54 am Link to this comment
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Since the republicans spent so much energy dogging Clinton over the fact that he had lied aboput his extramarital affair(s)...It would seem only fitting that the whole of this administration should be held to account for the multitude of lies told to the american public. They from the onset made a concious decision tha the american people weren’t important enough to them to tell them the truth. From Cheney’s closed door sessions with his oil cronies thru 9-11 and every day since.

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By Sleeper, November 26, 2006 at 7:17 am Link to this comment
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He has provided us with tid bits of evidence that has yet to go anywhere.  Its tough waiting for real investigations to have a real impact.  Until then it seems like a political guessing game where somehow the end fits the sound bite that “Impeachment is off the table”.

I think as a nation we need to come clean and expose the rubbish that we have been told over the years.  If we start with the recent War profiteering we will be deep into the secret lies that could easily extent back to the assasination of President Kennedy.

It is unthinkable that a bullet hole in the windshield with unmistakable marks indicating the shot was fired from the front could be hidden for 43 years from any acknowledgment from our government.

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By bruce, November 26, 2006 at 5:23 am Link to this comment
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Henry…

Happy days are here again!!

You go Dude!!!

The country is supporting you…

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By rabblerowzer, November 26, 2006 at 3:49 am Link to this comment
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“Waxman’s biggest challenge as he mulls what to probe?
“The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose,” he said.”

Where do you begin a cleanup after you’ve been hit by a hurricane, a tsunami, a 9.9 earthquake, and exploding volcanoes of corruption all over the country?

The last six years of one party Republican rule has devastated our country from sea to shinning sea. Our Republican Lords of Destruction unleashed a crime wave of earth shattering proportion on our country and people. They have attacked and perverted everything from the cornerstone of our constitution to fundamental Christian values.

War is good, torture is good, greed is good, religious intolerance is good, racism is good, election fraud is good, oppressing the poor is good, fascism is good, pollution is good,  one man rule is good, corruption is good . . . and that just scratches the surface of their crimes.

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By greenback, November 25, 2006 at 7:29 pm Link to this comment
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IMPEACH the Constitution violators!

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