Dinosaur Dingell goes down!

Hallelujah.

Congressman John Dingell of Michigan just lost his chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to California congressman Henry Waxman. Ding dong.

Dingell was horrible. A suck up for the auto industry, he stymied efforts to increase the fuel efficiency of American cars (how's that going for the industry now that everyone is buying more fuel efficient foreign cars?) This committee will oversee global warming legislation. Do we really want some dinosaur in the pocket of the auto industry deciding whether we cut back on our fuel emissions? Dingell was a disaster for any kind of progressive politics. He was an auto industry spokesman, and now he's history. The House shows us how change is really done.

(If only Dingell had pulled a Lieberman and stabbed Obama in the back he could have been made Speaker.)