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online.wsj.com - 11/21/2008

The Waxman Democrats

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John Dingell's fall from power yesterday is an important inflection point in the history of the modern Democratic Party. The House purge marks the final triumph of the Congressional generation that came of political age during the 1970s over the last lion of New Deal liberalism, and it is ...

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The victory of Henry Waxman
Betsy's Page — Henry Waxman won his bid to overthrow John Dingell as the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Ironically, the Democrats chose to vote by secret ballot, a right that they want to deny workers voting on whether or not to unionize. The Wall Street Journal details what it means now that, as they call them, the Waxman Democrats are in charge in the House. That fissure neatly separates the Waxman Democrats from the old vanguard that Mr. Dingell represents. He was first elected in 1955 and has always tried to protect his hometown Detroit auto makers from the ...

“The Waxman Democrats: What the coup against Dingell means for business”
protein wisdom — WSJ : Mr. Waxman, speaking for the upscale precincts of Beverly Hills, wants to phase out coal and cars that use gasoline. The coastal elites who now dominate Democratic politics will happily trade the blue collar for the green collar. Like George Miller, Barney Frank and the other liberals produced by Vietnam and Watergate, Mr. Waxman belongs to a cohort whose power has been checked — one way or the other — by Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton’s New Democrat tendencies, the Republican sweep of 1994 and George W. Bush. Now with a new Democratic President and a crisis to use as a lever ...

Testing the Law of Unintended Consequences
QandO — ... partisan with antibusiness tendencies and certainly someone more inclined to do the bidding of Pelosi when it comes to health care and environmental issues. He’s also more likely go after oil companies, big pharma, insurance and any of the other corporate entities that show up on the ever changing Congressional "enemies" list while also driving legislation that will "cap and trade" us into economic oblivion. And unions - they should prosper, relatively speaking. Says the WSJ: The irony is that Democrats have found, in Mr. Waxman, an even ...

Saturday links
Maggie's Farm — ... people tend not to do. NYT Get a room, David Brooks A single-celled organism the size of a grape. Repubs will never reach people who feel that they are owed stuff At least 25 years of global cooling now predicted. It's cold as heck here today. How bad will the recession be? Hawkins Eric Holder, gun-grabber, also makes the case for "reasonable" restrictions on internet The Waxman Dems: WSJ. A quote: It's obvious who now pulls the Democratic levers of power, and ...