(Right) Barney Frank: potential gay committee chair.


It's official: the crazy conservatives are squirming about losing the House. The Journal ran this institutional oped today predicting doom to all good things, if the Dems are given control:

...While Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi would be a new Speaker of the House, the 19 primary committee chairmen who would dominate hearings, issue subpoenas and write legislation are agents of change only in the sense of going back to the future.

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Consider the man likely to run the Judiciary Committee, Michigan's John Conyers, from the Congressional class of 1964. He recently made his plans clear...to investigate grounds for impeaching President Bush.

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Over at Financial Services, the ascension of Barney Frank (1980) would mean a reprieve for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, despite $16 billion in accounting scandals. His main reform priority has been to carve out a new affordable housing fund from the two companies' profits. And forget about any major review of Sarbanes-Oxley.

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We also can't forget California's Henry Waxman (1974), among the most partisan liberals and who at Government Reform would compete with Mr. Conyers to see who could issue the most subpoenas to the Bush Administration...

The entire editorial is worth a read to see how fearful the Journal is of things like congressional oversight, a gay committee chair, and the "rule of law." Ha!