Whats Next for Scrupulously Non-Partisan Public Servant Henry Waxman (D-Cal)?
Henry Waxman has stepped in it by going after Clemens with testimony from a known liar. But you can expect Waxman to carry on as if nothing happened. If he can’t figure out a way to get the Justice Department interested or otherwise make political hay out of Roger Clemens, off he goes to his next Endless Oversight Committee hearing. Maybe Waxman will retreat to his permanent standing target, President George W. Bush, whose main crime is to be something other than a Democrat. It truly makes me wonder what Waxman would do with himself if Obama or Clinton were elected president. Any wrongdoing by a Democratic president would, of course, be buried by Waxman the same way he buried the report on the theft of classified documents from the National Archives by Clinton’s National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger. If a Democrat were elected, Waxman might try to keep himself busy Investigating lower level Republican officials in other branches of government, but where’s the excitement in that? Mayb
