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| Newser.com is too kind. Waxman sounded "Retreat!" |
forty years of serving in the House of Representatives, he is choosing to
retire.
However, six months prior, he had issued an eblast to supporters
declaring why he needed to run for office again, citing the usual liberal
litany of causes (climate change, raising taxes, health care reform). A few
weeks before announcing his retirement, he had conducted an interview with LA
Weekly, which included comments from Independent challenger Marianne Williamson
along with his 2012 campaign rival Bill Bloomfield of Manhattan Beach.
run for Congress again. Why would he change his mind?
In the last four months following the Obamacare rollout, millions
of Americans have witnessed their health insurance premiums rise, their doctors
retire, or their insurance companies cancel clients’ current plans, the same
plans which Congressional Democrats ad promised we could keep.
Jindal offered: “We can no longer call Jimmy Carter the worst President in
American History”. The investigations into Operation Fast and Furious and IRS
abuses which targeted conservatives have deeply implicated the President and
his party. The GM bailout, which Waxman championed, cost taxpayers
billions of dollars, according to MSNBC. The only winners following the
Solyndra fiasco, for which Waxman barley apologized, where Obama’s donors.
No one should wonder why Waxman is quitting. Not “retire”, but
“retreat” is the word to describe Waxman’s decision not to run for office.