Henry Waxman’s taking over the Energy and Commerce Committee. Harold Meyerson made the (persuasive) case for Waxman in a Washington Post column recently. Let the experimentation with socialism begin.
UPDATE: Between Waxman, David Axelrod, and Eric Holder mustachioed men are taking control of American politics. Perhaps this, rather than a “team of rivals” is the real 19th century throwback element of the Obama Era.
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