Matt Yglesias

The Moustache of Oversight

Matthew Blake of The Washington Independent has a nice appreciation of Henry Waxman’s tenure as top Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee. Waxman was so effective in that role that a young person such as myself thought of him exclusively in those terms and I had no idea of his record as an effective legislator.

Waxman Wins!

Henry Waxman’s taking over the Energy and Commerce Committee. Harold Meyerson made the (persuasive) case for Waxman in a Washington Post column recently. Let the experimentation with socialism begin.

UPDATE: Between Waxman, David Axelrod, and Eric Holder mustachioed men are taking control of American politics. Perhaps this, rather than a “team of rivals” is the real 19th century throwback element of the Obama Era.