I cannot watch him...I know I should...but I simply cannot.
He literally makes me sick to my stomach.
Anyone have thoughts on this?
WAXMAN’S PROMOTION
The Obama transition team engineered the challenge of Rep. Henry Waxman for the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and did so with the approval of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according Obama campaign and Energy committee staff. The current chairman, John Dingell, has been a long-time House member and was anticipating returning for what might be his final term in Congress. But Waxman, who has chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is chomping at the bit for a greater level of influence in the House and Energy and Commerce, one of the crown jewel committees on the House side because of the number of different issues, agencies, and constituencies it deals with.
“Waxman immediately becomes the second or third most influential chairman in the House with this job,” says a longtime House Energy Republican staffer. “He’s already insufferable, this will make him doubly so.”
House Energy and Commerce will give Waxman the platform to wage what another Republican aide called his “holy war” against corporate America, including the oil companies. “People thought it was a pain in the ass to go before his oversight committee? They don’t know how bad it is going to be with him in charge of a committee that has some real legislative influence.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/wasting-no-time