George W. Bush Meet Henry Waxman

Guy sounds good so far. Can't wait to see what he uncovers.

Nobody in their right mind believed that Waxman wouldn't investigate, no matter what Pelosi said.
I welcome the investigations, the sooner, the better. If there's something there, Bush can plead to it on his last day in office & get on back to the ranch. that is the way it works, right?

Pelosi NEVER said that a Democratic Congress would shirk its oversight responsibilities.

She said there would be no impeachment, what do you think the purpose of Nostralitis Waxmans investigation is all about? Or is he just wasting our $$ & time?

there's a long tradition of it... ken starr for instance....

i'm wondering if you're on the crawford domestic staff by chance....

Ok, so? What does that have to do with Nostralitis?
BTW-You forgot Archibald Cox.

I had thought about seeking employment at the crawford ranch until I was told that you were the barn mucker.

It's funny but I have seen the pictures of posters who make fun of the way people look and invariably they are homely and usually obese...of course, one common trait is that they never post an avatar of themselves as they would set themselves up for much ridicule.

LMAO, you are such a fake.
Say, are you saying that your avatar is a photo of you?
gawd, that's ugly.

It's admirable that you have such a self-deprecating sense of humor but there ain't nothing fake about this:

Again, it is almost always the ugliest people who anonymously sit at their keyboard and make fun of how others look.

You're bragging about that photo being the real you?

Roxy, you look great. Moreover, you look like you are interesting.

Waxman should look at government outsourcing.


^12/11/06: Outsourcer in Chief

By PAUL KRUGMAN

According to U.S. News & World Report, President Bush has told aides
that he won't respond in detail to the Iraq Study Group's report because
he doesn't want to "outsource" the role of commander in chief.

That's pretty ironic. You see, outsourcing of the government's
responsibilities -- not to panels of supposed wise men, but to private
companies with the right connections -- has been one of the hallmarks of
his administration. And privatization through outsourcing is one reason
the administration has failed on so many fronts.

For example, an article in Saturday's New York Times describes how the
Coast Guard has run a $17 billion modernization program: "Instead of
managing the project itself, the Coast Guard hired Lockheed Martin and
Northrop Grumman, two of the nation's largest military contractors, to
plan, supervise and deliver the new vessels and helicopters."

The result? Expensive ships that aren't seaworthy. The Coast Guard
ignored "repeated warnings from its own engineers that the boats and
ships were poorly designed and perhaps unsafe," while "the contractors
failed to fulfill their obligation to make sure the government got the
best price, frequently steering work to their subsidiaries or business
partners instead of competitors."

In Afghanistan, the job of training a new police force was outsourced to
DynCorp International, a private contractor, under very loose
supervision: when conducting a recent review, auditors couldn't even
find a copy of DynCorp's contract to see what it called for. And $1.1
billion later, Afghanistan still doesn't have an effective police
training program.

In July 2004, Government Executive magazine published an article titled
"Outsourcing Iraq," documenting how the U.S. occupation authorities had
transferred responsibility for reconstruction to private contractors,
with hardly any oversight. "The only plan," it said, "appears to have
been to let the private sector manage nation-building, mostly on their
own." We all know how that turned out.

On the home front, the Bush administration outsourced many
responsibilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. For
example, the job of evacuating people from disaster areas was given to a
trucking logistics firm, Landstar Express America. When Hurricane
Katrina struck, Landstar didn't even know where to get buses. According
to Carey Limousine, which was eventually hired, Landstar "found us on
the Web site."

It's now clear that there's a fundamental error in the antigovernment
ideology embraced by today's conservative movement. Conservatives look
at the virtues of market competition and leap to the conclusion that
private ownership, in itself, is some kind of magic elixir. But there's
no reason to assume that a private company hired to perform a public
service will do better than people employed directly by the government.

In fact, the private company will almost surely do a worse job if its
political connections insulate it from accountability -- which has, of
course, consistently been the case under Mr. Bush. The inspectors'
report on Afghanistan's police conspicuously avoided assessing
Dyn-Corp's performance; even as government auditors found fault with
Landstar, the company received a plaque from the Department of
Transportation honoring its hurricane relief efforts.

Underlying this lack of accountability are the real motives for turning
government functions over to private companies, which have little to do
with efficiency. To say the obvious: when you see a story about failed
outsourcing, you can be sure that the company in question is a major
contributor to the Republican Party, is run by people with strong G.O.P.
connections, or both.

So what happens now? The failure of privatization under the Bush
administration offers a target-rich environment to newly empowered
Congressional Democrats -- and I say, let the subpoenas fly. Bear in
mind that we're not talking just about wasted money: contracting
failures in Iraq helped us lose one war, similar failures in Afghanistan
may help us
lose another, and FEMA's failures helped us lose a great American city.
And maybe, just maybe, the abject failure of this administration's
efforts to outsource essential functions to the private sector will
diminish the antigovernment prejudice created by decades of right-wing
propaganda.

That's important, because the presumption that the private sector can do
no wrong and the government can do nothing right prevents us from coming
to grips with some of America's biggest problems -- in particular, our
wildly dysfunctional health care system. More on that in future columns.
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wtf is wrong with you people criticizing the way Roxx looks.

Grow the f*ck up

Cycloptichorn

Nice language there....for an adult

Henry Waxman may be the son of a Watts grocer, but isn't black, which is significant.


Roxxxane, I have seen good pictures of you on your Myspace site, some that aren't so obviously tranny. I may have them, shall I look?

Why is that significant? Unless Mr Waxman was the only white in Watts? is that what you're saying? Did he move there after the riots?