CONGRATS TEA PARTY!… Waxman Blames Tea Party & Global Warming Deniers for His Decision to Retire

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Good work, Tea Party!
You got rid of Waxman.

Far left Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) announced this week that he was leaving Congress after 40 years. Today he kicked the Tea Party on the way out the door.
The Washington Post reported, via Free Republic:

I announced this past week that I will be retiring after having the honor of serving my Los Angeles constituents in Congress for 40 years.

Immediately, speculation began that I am leaving because I am frustrated with a broken institution. But the exact opposite is true: I am leaving Congress with my conviction intact that the legislative branch can be a powerful force for good.

Of course there are aspects of the current Congress that I abhor. This past week, every Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, where I have served most of my career, voted to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon pollution that is causing climate change. When my colleague Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) offered a simple amendment affirming that climate change is real, they voted against that, too.

That kind of mindless denial of science is an embarrassment.

Voting over and over to repeal the Affordable Care Act, shutting down the government and threatening default are other deplorable examples of the extremism of tea party Republicans

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