this is a tiny bit of good news

(i am NOT getting my hopes up that high though). now they ousted dingle tell me why why why they didn't kick da LIEbs to da curb? who does he have pictures of fornicating with an animal i must wonder?

at any rate, this isn't about da LIEbs now is it?

it's about our environment and our future (if we have one)

Waxman Dethrones Dingell As Energy/Commerce Chairman
by Patrick O'Connor
WASHINGTON - California Rep. Henry A. Waxman on Thursday officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell, upending a seniority system that has governed Democratic politics in the House for decades. In a secret ballot vote in the Cannon Caucus Room, House Democrats ratified an earlier decision by the Steering and Policy Committee to replace the 82-year-old Dingell with his 69-year-old rival. The vote was 137-122 in favor of Waxman.

The ascension of Waxman, a wily environmentalist, recasts a committee that Dingell has chaired since 1981 with an eye toward protecting the domestic auto industry in his native Michigan. The Energy and Commerce Committee has principal jurisdiction over many of President-elect Barack Obama's top legislative priorities, including energy, the environment and health care.

"Seniority is important, but it should not be a grant of property rights to be chairman for three decades or more," Waxman said after emerging from the caucus meeting.

Waxman's win is a big victory for environmentalists who want a more aggressive stance on global warming from the committee, and the vote showed the powerful hand of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Waxman ally, even though she officially remained neutral in the race.

The ousting of the ultimate Old Bull - just three months before Dingell was set to become the longest-serving chairman in the House - is also a shot across the bow for other senior lawmakers who have enjoyed a comfortable and unchallenged ride in their chairmen's seats. ......

fema, the doj and now the fda???

what the hell...........

it's like we're living in some third world country

FDA Was Aware of Dangers To Food
Outbreaks Were Not Preventable, Officials Say

(NOT preventable????????)


By Elizabeth Williamson Washington Post Staff Writer
The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest product recalls in U.S. history, documents and interviews show.
Overwhelmed by huge growth in the number of food processors and imports, however, the agency took only limited steps to address the problems and relied on producers to police themselves, according to agency documents..........

.............."This administration does not like regulation, this administration does not like spending money, and it has a hostility toward government. The poisonous result is that a program like the FDA is going to suffer at every turn of the road," said Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the full House committee. Dingell is considering introducing legislation to boost the agency's accountability, regulatory authority and budget............