Will A House Resolution Pass?

    It may have gotten stuck in quicksand in the Senate, but the resolution on Bush's war escalation plan may be resurrected from death's grip over in the House.

YahooNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will take up a resolution next week disapproving of President George W. Bush's decision to add 21,500 American troops in Iraq, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.

Although the House had intended to follow the Senate's lead on the issue, Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said the House had decided not to wait any longer on the Senate to act after Senate Republicans blocked debate on a similar resolution in that chamber on Monday.

"The reason we're going ahead is not because we don't think the Senate will ever act, but we're not sure when the Senate is going to act," Hoyer told reporters.

"I think the resolution will clearly say we do not believe that the president's proposal of an escalation of 21,000 troops is the proper policy to be pursuing," Hoyer said. It was being drafted now, he said, and he expected a three day debate.

   Maybe it would have been a better idea if all of this had started in the House right from the start, where the Democrats have more than enough votes to get some kind of statement on this mess passed.

    I would go so far as to even dare any of the Democrats in the House to go for some watered down crap like they attempted to do in the Senate version of a resolution.

    We are watching you like hawks!

 

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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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