Uh oh. Henry Waxman now a "firebagger"

[Generator]

Waxman Requests Information on White House Deals
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

The Obama administration’s health care proposals are taking fire from all sides. A powerful House Democrat on Wednesday lent some support to a Republican effort to press the White House for documents and details about any deals it made with drug companies, hospitals, labor unions and other interest groups during its behind-the-scenes negotiations over the proposed health care overhaul.

Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House energy and commerce committee, agreed to join the panel’s Republicans in writing a joint letter to the White House requesting more information.

Snip~ http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/waxman-requests-information-on-white-house-deals/

But Mr. Waxman, like many House Democrats, has also been a critic of some of the White House’s health care deals. In particular, Mr. Waxman has vowed to oppose a deal with drug industry lobbyists that secured their political support in exchange for guaranteeing that the overhaul would not harm their long-term profits.

In the security of its agreement, the drug industry spent millions advertising in support of the overhaul. But the White House and Senate Finance Committee reached the deal with the drug lobbyists without the involvement of House Democrats, who later surprised to learn about in the press.


But maybe the letter will work since it's bi-partisan and Obama seems to love that.

[Generator]

1. What no disgust? No waxman's dead to me?

He's probably just doing it for fame.

[DJ13]

2. Waxman's dead to me!

Not really, this is actually a bump.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. I'm far more concerned with other things Waxman has done lately

such as taking the side of treason enabling warmonger Jane Harman over the true Democrat who will hopefully replace her, Marcy Winograd.

[walldude]

4. Man, fuck Waxman...

What kind of asshole wants to know what is really going on? What kind of jerk watched the health care industry dump a million dollars a day into anti-health care reform and then wants to know if they had any influence on the outcome? Man they ought to impeach this guy, wanting to know the truth. What a dickhead.