Politics As Ususal
15 February 2008
Director, CBS Radio News
Dear Sir or Madam:
On this morning's 8am (EST) broadcast, your anchorman reported that Rep. Henry Waxman says that he held this week's hearing with Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee only because it was requested by Mr. Clemens.
Has Mr. Waxman no shame? He stages a circus, involving Congress in a matter that is none of its business. At that circus he and his colleagues pompously pontificated, posed, and performed for the cameras, pretending to be great protectors of the republic. Finally, now that it is clear - undoubtedly to Mr. Waxman's surprise - that most Americans regard these hearings as being, at best, a farcical waste of time, Mr. Waxman blames Mr. Clemens for holding the hearings! Surely Mr. Waxman, as Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, could have refused Mr. Clemens' alleged request if Mr. Waxman believed such hearings to be inappropriate.
Let us hear no more of Mr. Waxman's "toughness" and "courage." Like nearly all of his Congressional colleagues, he's a weasel and miscreant, skilled only at spending other people's money and other people's reputations on his own glorification.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Director, CBS Radio News
Dear Sir or Madam:
On this morning's 8am (EST) broadcast, your anchorman reported that Rep. Henry Waxman says that he held this week's hearing with Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee only because it was requested by Mr. Clemens.
Has Mr. Waxman no shame? He stages a circus, involving Congress in a matter that is none of its business. At that circus he and his colleagues pompously pontificated, posed, and performed for the cameras, pretending to be great protectors of the republic. Finally, now that it is clear - undoubtedly to Mr. Waxman's surprise - that most Americans regard these hearings as being, at best, a farcical waste of time, Mr. Waxman blames Mr. Clemens for holding the hearings! Surely Mr. Waxman, as Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, could have refused Mr. Clemens' alleged request if Mr. Waxman believed such hearings to be inappropriate.
Let us hear no more of Mr. Waxman's "toughness" and "courage." Like nearly all of his Congressional colleagues, he's a weasel and miscreant, skilled only at spending other people's money and other people's reputations on his own glorification.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Friday July 4, 2008 at 9:02am