Congressman Henry Waxman Gets Waxed

October 23, 2008 | Jim Vicevich | |

At House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Hearings today Republicans bit down hard and would not let go. Every time a Democrat tried to blame the current crisis on banking deregulation, the Republicans fired back with “Fannie Mae”. Finally Democrat Chairman Henry Waxman had had enough and looked for help from the experts giving testimony. What ensured was classic TV.

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

1 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on October 23, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Did Waxman really think that these guys were going to go along with the Democrat's (and media's) fiction?

    Someone should have read Orson Scott Card's article aloud.

    How asleep (or complicit) would you have to be to miss the fact that the housing price/mortgage crisis triggered the current financial debacle.



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