While Rahm has been loudly flailing in his attempts to push through health care, Henry Waxman has been preparing for battle.

Henry Waxman is not fucking around. And that’s so much fun to see.

Reportedly, Obama is considering former GOP Congressman Tom Davis to be his new cyberczar. It strikes me as the height of stupidity to put a guy with a history of politicizing email in charge of the nation’s cybersecurity.

George Bush has failed to implement recommendations made by Inspectors General to the tune of $25 billion. Who was it that said an MBA President would bring competence to the position?

“…why not add another charge too?” That seems to be the immediate message of Henry Waxman’s memo exposing Administration lies about the claim that Iraq was seeking uranium in Niger. Alberto Gonzales appears to have lied for Condi, to hide the insistence with which the Administration refused to heed warnings against using the Niger uranium claim.

I’ve got mixed feelings about Henry Waxman’s challenge to John Dingell.

Tom Davis supports Waxman’s report that Bush improperly invoked executive privilege to protect the Cheney interview materials. But I think he was just helping the Bush Administration sustain its firewall protecting Bush’s involvement in the outing of Valerie Plame.

Henry Waxman comes up with a stat that will definitely put the financial cost of the Iraq war in concrete terms.

Unlike HJC, Oversight does not publicly release subpoenas when they serve them. So Mukasey’s cowardly letter begging Bush to invoke executive privilege so he doesn’t have to go to jail for shielding Dick Cheney’s role in outing Valerie Plame is one of the first hints of the scope of what Waxman was after.

Almost like clockwork, Henry Waxman wrote his letter to find out more about Bush’s Library and bribery.