All attempts at bipartisan is just window dressing.
Posted on 11/10/2006 1:32:58 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Waxman set to probe areas of Bush gov't
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer 37 minutes ago
The Democratic congressman who will investigate the Bush administration's running of the government says there are so many areas of possible wrongdoing, his biggest problem will be deciding which ones to pursue.
There's the response to Hurricane Katrina, government contracting in Iraq and on homeland security, political interference in regulatory decisions by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, and allegations of war profiteering, Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., told the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
"I'm going to have an interesting time because the Government Reform Committee has jurisdiction over everything," Waxman said Friday, three days after his party's capture of Congress put him in line to chair the panel. "The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose."
Waxman, who's in his 16th term representing West Los Angeles, had plenty of experience leading congressional investigations before the Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in 1994.
That was the year when, as chairman of an Energy and Commerce subcommittee, he presided over dramatic hearings he convened where the heads of leading tobacco companies testified that they didn't believe nicotine was addictive.
The scene made it into the movie "The Insider," but Waxman noted Friday that no subpoenas were issued to produce that testimony.
Republicans have speculated that a Democratic congressional majority will mean a flurry of subpoenas and investigations into everything under the sun as retaliation against the GOP and President Bush.
Not so, Waxman said.
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All attempts at bipartisan is just window dressing.
You're right on there. But we're talking about the libs - they have to focus on the past because they don't have a clue what to do with the future.
I also demand the Democrats find out why I've had more gas since 2000!
What's he going to do when, on the first probe, he pulls of some very smelly Dems that voted for all the stuff they've convinced themselves that Bush did on his own?
There, I fixed it for you.
As long it doesn't interrupt the Soap Operas and Oprah the democrat constituents could care less.
This is where we don't know how to play the game.
There is enough to expose on Clinton's foreign affairs, giving away info, etc.
There are many dems in congress with backgrounds and activities that would sink anyone else such as Rep. Wm Jefferson and his tens of thousands of dollars of bribe money found in his freezer by the FBI.
The dems want to make charges, we bring up facts about them right back.
There's a great pic here!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney,_Sr.
Nostrilitus is at it again.
One response: "I'm sorry, I don't recall".
Waxman?? Good God, how long have some of these RAT committee chairs to be been up there?? Some of them have got to be a hundred years old by now. Don't they have any new blood?
I hate that ******* pig-nosed ****** ******* *******.
Henry "Nostrilitis" Waxman at your cervix....{sorry Sub-driver...it was called for)
I am NOSTRILDAMAUS.
The future portends great disaster for Republicans, a man will sweep in from the west he will have the nostrils equivalent of 3 men and he will uncover great courruption of the house that is white.
There's an old quip that fairly well describes the situation: ''Some people can resist anything but temptation." And, the ''K'' Street gang of big money lobbyists can generate a whole barrel full of temptation--as has already been demonstrated in this congress. Good hunting Mr. Waxman, track down and expose the corruption regardless of whether it's red or blue.
Gosh, he's like a kid in a candy store, isn't he?
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