Henry Waxman (D), California recently ousted fellow Democrat John Dingell from Michigan to gain the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The problem is that Mr Waxman despises oil companies. The appropriateness of this assignment for Waxman could only be rivaled by naming an incurable couch potato to head the President's Council on Physical Fitness. This is the same Mr Waxman that opposed random drug testing of federal employees but was all over Barry Bonds' steroid use and endorsed establishing drug testing for major league sports. I'm no fan of Bonds, but how exactly does Mr Waxman conclude that Mr Bonds' drug habits pose a greater risk to our health than do possible acts by federal employees, such as airport security workers?
Then there is Barney Frank (D), Massachusetts. Mr Frank chairs the House Financial Services Committee. The problem is that Mr Frank hates capitalism and desperately wants to spread the wealth around by sticking it to the "rich". A Financial Services Committee chair that is partial to socialism? Quite bizarre indeed. What next? A museum curator that is hostile to the arts?
Lastly, we come to Charles Rangel (D), New York. Mr Rangel is the House Ways and Means chair. A very big assignment for sure. Contrary to the others mentioned here, this chairmanship makes sense because Mr Rangel is enamored with taxes. Now, he doesn't like to pay his taxes but he wants to make sure that we are not deprived of our Biden-described patriotic duty to pay more taxes.
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