Henry Waxman ( Elliott Ness ) Comes To Washington With Guns Blazing

   Representative Henry A. Waxman, the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, promises some real oversight of the kind that this Bush Crime Family has never seen.

   Waxman is known for being a hard-assed investigator and for also being very competent in his job, contrary to what some of the administration officials have said.

    NYTimes

    "There has been no cop on the beat,” said Mr. Waxman, who accuses Congressional Republicans of having abdicated their responsibility for oversight in recent years. “And when there is no cop on the beat, criminals are more willing to engage in crimes. Without constant policing by Congress, he said, “the bad actors feel they can get away with anything.”

    He has already held hearings dealing with the administrations alleged intimidation and harassment of scientist who spoke on the coming ills caused by global warming.

    Up now are the reports of the massive fraud in the Iraqi billion dollar reconstruction projects which have had such things as something like $9 billion disappear without a trace.

   Mr. Waxman has been called the Elliott Ness of the Democrats so things should be getting a little steamy for the war profiteers and the Bush administration. Oh. I forgot. They are both one and the same. What was I thinking?

   Mr. Waxman has investigated all of the good qualities of the Bush administration (Halliburton, Enron, the flu vaccine crisis, conflicts of interest at Homeland Security) and the bad. Wait a minute. Those were the bad qualities and there are no good qualities about this administration!

    Go get them, Henry Waxman!

 

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