This guy has supported every progressive movement there ever was. He's my congressman.  I never have to write him and urge him to do the right thing because he's always already doing it without urging. 

     Fareside23, you sound like Madame DeFarge demanding the heads of aristocrats as she knits in her chair, not distinguishing between the real pricks and the friends of the people.  Some good progressives had to support the Tarp bail-out because there was no other politically feasible way to keep the ATM spitting out money at the time. George Bush was still president, if you recall.  Of course, the proper thing would have been to seize the banks.  However, in a country that calls Obama-care "socialism," how would you ever expect that to pass?  Do you think Bush would signed on to that?  Instead we had to swallow the bitter pill of Tarp to keep the whole economy from exploding worse than it did.

     You are either a right-wing extremist or a dyed-in-the-wool Maoist not to like Waxman.  The 99% has no better friend in Congress.  This guy deserves our unreserved gratitude and respect.  He's not a pretty boy, but he's gorgeous.