Posted
8:09 AM
by Gene
Bill Thomas, "the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee" and a neat Paul Lynde impersonator without a sense of humor, is quitting the House -- and the WaPost writes his epitaph:Thomas is likely to retire without one marquee law that is seen as his masterwork.Shucks, all that bullying and tantrum throwing and he can't point to a
landmark law? Well, everyone's saying what a brilliant legislator he was, meaning with any justice he, too, will be forgotten with the rest, though given the Medicare Drug Boondoggle Act that may take a while.