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That's good, if the contrast is what you say. Waxman is definitely one of the good guys.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 11:49:53 AM EST
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Waxman, by all accounts I've read, is definitely one of the good guys. Which makes sense. He is, after all, an actual Hollywood Liberal. No more letting Detroit and its lobbyists, who own Dingell, run things. This is great.

CNBC's apparently losing its shit over this, if that's any indication.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 11:59:37 AM EST
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Re: Big Win (none / 0)

CNBC ? What ? Why ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 01:00:45 PM EST
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Re: Big Win (none / 1)

Because CNBC's afraid Waxman will put his fist down Detroit's throat with CAFE standards, cap-and-trade, and all kinds of neat stuff. As the CNBC crowd all likely own stock in big polluters and luvs them some corrupt mofos like Dingell, they're not pleased.

Apparently trying to blame Waxman for the Big Three stocks sliding, even though they actually went up a bit after it was announced.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 01:05:55 PM EST
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Re: Big Win (none / 0)

It's also a good body blow to the seniority system in Congress.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 12:01:12 PM EST
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Re: Big Win (none / 0)

Someone over at Kos had a comment on that. Dingell is the longest serving rep in history, and Waxman has been number 2 on that committee for a long time. It's not THAT huge of a blow to seniority system for a very senior member to take over from a VERY senior member.

by Zwackus on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 04:54:19 PM EST
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