"Keep that man away from my cocaine!"
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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I love it during hearings when the camera is below the bench and looking up into those cavernous nostrils. It obscures a huge portion of his face.
New territory for him.
LOL...I haven't heard that term since the old impeachment days of yore. Such memories!
Those are not nostrils. They are like a vulcher's nares!
Yeah...but he also looks exactly like the doctor in that old Twilight Zone. Remember, the one where everyone is shot in shadows until the very end? Where ugliness is beauty and vice versa?
(I think I need to get off this forum for a while now...I'm getting punchy.)
I keep waiting for the hermit crabs to pop out!
The American people get the government they deserve, and they get it good and hard"?
lol.... my hubby keeps telling me that.....
They sure are mad that their President Clinton got impeached. They are the sickest of the sick.
"Good hunting Mr. Waxman, track down and expose the corruption regardless of whether it's red or blue?"
Since you seem to have some misconception about Waxman's true intentions I thought you ought to know something. You can be damn sure they will all be "red" and, if Waxman's past is indicative of the future, the actual facts of the matter will be secondary to the propaganda he can generate from his efforts.
Do you really hate the corporations, the publicly held entities that provide you with the cheapest goods and services in the world, so much that you would encourage the scumbag partisan Waxman's personal political jihad?
Get a f##king clue!
PF
It's one thing to go down fighting, but Bush lost this election without fighting back. He handed the government over to Waxman, Pelosi, Reid and other assorted ragheads without firing a shot. Now they're going to investigate his ass off. And perhaps he's even surprised. After all, he agreed to so much leftist tripe over the last six years, shouldn't they all LIKE him?
Simply put,democrats are assholes and those who voted for them are assholes too! and I am not sorry for speaking the truth.
I'm neither naive nor PollyAnna. I meant exactly what I said. If the power is abused that would be equally worthy of condemnation. But to begin by assuming a sinister ulterior motive in the investigations of matters that have been uncovered and unaddressed is to take a firm head-in-the-sand posture and abandon the ckeck and balance obligation of the separate governmental branches mandated by the Constitution. You remember that don't you, the Constitution? It supercedes ideological loyalties and partisanship that's willing to ignore abuse and corruption.
"I'd hate to see the grindstone."
He's going to do WHAT? Oh, the last word "gov't" makes it more clear!
lol
Finally! The DemonRats unveil their plans.
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