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New Rule: The Baldy Awards Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) (Original Post)
nycbos
Jun 2021
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tblue37
(65,483 posts)1. One of his best "New Rules" ever! K&R for visibility.
sarchasm
(1,012 posts)2. Here's to the Waxman's out there!
... and all the Baldies that get shit done!
amb123
(1,581 posts)3. When you put people in government who know HOW to make government work ...
Government DOES work. Henry Waxman knows this.
"Son, there are two kinds of Congressmenshow horses and work horses. If you want to get your name in the papers, be a show horse. But if you want to gain the respect of your colleagues, don't do it. Be a work horse."
- Joshua Talbott, Congressman from Maryland (1843-1918) to first-term congressman Carl T. Hayden of Arizona.
PS - Carl T. Hayden was bald too.
Wild blueberry
(6,653 posts)4. Competence is very appealing
Good New Rules.
Thank you.