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A Thousand Words

by: DavidNYC

Mon Jan 08, 2007 at 12:16 AM EST


Go to the website for the House Government Reform Committee (now chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman). Click the link in the top-right corner for "Minority Office." What do you get?

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How fitting.
It is the Republican Congress in a nutshell.

ha!
i just spewed coffee all over myself. gotta change pants now.

thanks a lot, dude.

"joke about the rapture here"

it's time:the albany project



The question is...
...was there ever even one when they were in the Majority?

Great post.

Wonder if Sununu's fired now.


Great Find
My question is, which firefox extensions do you use and where did you find them to get all those cool buttons on your firefox when you find a deadlink?

Next Generation Democrats

Davis: No Big O
Tom Davis took the "Oversight" from this Committee in more ways than one.  Now Waxman will put it back in.

The Washington Post did a series on the poor oversight but did not name their publisher's good friend and Reform "overseer" Tom Davis. Even though Davis perpetrated the fraud discussed in the stories, and profited from the hush money paid to him and his wife in the form of campaign contributions

The stories are linked through their authors here: Higham and OHarrow.

The first article discussed Davis's fraud prominently, but it was slotted to appear on a summer Friday in July as if the Post was ashamed of the discovery.  As you might expect, many ignored the story. July story

Even though the series must have been complete when the first installment ran in July, the next story in the series did not run until 4 months later, after the November election. It did not name Davis, and also appeared when it was likely to be ignored, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving story

The later stories did not name Davis at all.  One named a subcommittee chair from Connecticut (Shays' who actually held meaningful hearings), but did not name Davis, the Committee Chair, and a local in WaPo's coverage area! December 2.

The story Dec 6 mentioned incoming chair Waxman but not outgoing chair Davis. December 6.

The last article appeared on Christmas Day, again sure to be ignored.  Xmas story

The Boston Globe covered Davis's willingness to withhold Reform Committee scrutiny. The Post does not. I have been told Davis has many friends at the Post who re protecting him from the repercussions of this series, friends who know him from baseball, from DC Voting rights issues, and from mutual friend Marvin Bush.


Aaaaawe...
They fixed it.

Does this mean that they will care about oversight now?

I think not.


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