Waxman clueless about his cap&trade bill: “You’re asking me?!”
Democrat Henry Waxman, primary sponsor of the radical cap&trade/national eco-tax bill in the House, can’t answer basic questions about the legislation’s details. And his speed-reader wasn’t around to bring old Waxy up to speed in time to rescue him from this gasbaggy gaffe.
“You’re asking me?”
(Video hat tip: Connie Hair)
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That speed reader thing was the greatest affront to the idea of representative democracy I think I’ve seen lately.
It shows the utter contempt for the office and the people Waxman should be branded with.
I know it’s wrong of me, but every time I see Waxman, all I can think of is a pig at the trough.
Waxman is the picture perfect image of Wesley Mouch of Atlas Shrugged is you ask me.
Funny, I am listening to the aduio book of Atlas Shrugged again and today as I was driving I was figuring out what real person would be each fictional character. There are so many politicians today who could be Mouch.
Frickin’ dumb ass!!!
Notice his taken-aback manner. He can’t believe some plebe would expect him to know these unimportant details.
Mr. Waxman the taxpayers actually do expect you to read the bills that you will cast your vote, whether you want to or not. Or is that too much to expect of you?
So this was supposed to make everyone think they were actually doing their job by using a speed reader? Does anyone know how hard it really is to plow through one of these giant bills and actually understand it?
Don’t let them skate on this one …
Ask them how much the CO2 is going down, how low the water is going to go, and how much the temperature is being reduced.
And then ask them if they know what photosynthesis and cellar respiration is all about?
TAX and RATION, that the energy plan.
Just one more reason we need to force our reps to support a mandatory waiting period between the final version of a bill and the actual vote so as they can at least pretend to read it.
Sad thing is, while there are so many who could play Mouch, or Jim Taggart, etc. I have a hard time trying to think of who could play d’Anconia, or Akston. Let alone who could play Galt.
He wrote the bill reference the title of the post.
That makes it even worse. This guy is as bad as they come.
No, that sounds correct, descriptive, accurate. Not wrong at all.
If Waxman isn’t reading the bills he wrote I can only imagine the consideration he gives on the bills he doesn’t write. Only a liberal can get away with it.
Pigs at the trough is dead on accurate for a discription of the “C(r)ap and Trap bill. This admin is atrocious.
Just when you thought you had seen it all. I thought Globull Warming was dead and gone. He could at least get with the program and call it climate change.
When I see him, I think of the old Mad Magazine cartoon strip of a man trying to groom his nose hairs into a moustache.
This guy looks like a muppet.
Meanwhile, in other good news, the Denver Nuggets have doomed the hated and despised LA Lakers to ignominious defeat.
Oh, what would Mark Twain have said about Henry Waxman? It’s a pity he is not around to comment.
Impossible, but true: this dork is as stupid as he looks (ad hominem has its place). This is the man who has been ranting that our survival depends on the passage of his pet legislation, despite the reasoned concerns of many credible economists that it will constitute a seriously dangerous impediment to recovery. Some legislators are honest enough to admit its simply a tax scheme to pay for more government. Now, it’s clear Henry doesn’t even know what’s in his damn bill; he admitted it.
Not to worry, however: he has relied upon, ta dah! “SCIENTISTS”. Wow! I feel much better. Never mind that the “scientists” could not agree within themselves; they reached a “consensus”.
They told Henry there is a problem of global warming (Hey, Earwax, the current term is “climate change”; get with the program) and that there is an “impact”. Exactly what sort of impact did most (remember, merely “consensus”) of these scientists agree was a sufficient reason to raise the cost of electricity, gasoline and everything else that has a CO2 component in its production process?
But wait! These scientists are members of the IPCC, so they’re reliable. I should have Googled IPCC, but I’m confident its members are very progressive in their social agenda.
This nation is clearly in the process of defecating its collective gray matter, and Little Henry Waxman is pouring the prune juice down our throat.
GE’s Jeff Immelt has drank the Kool-Aid:
http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090520141935.aspx
Wow. Looks like just about anybody can be a Congressman.
This is actually very simple. Waxman represents the hollywood elite. The cap and trade directive is simply a way for those elitists to slap down and destroy the manufacturing industry of the US. This IS their goal!
As for electricity users, the hollywood elitists pride themselves on paying absurd amounts of cash to ‘be off of the grid’. These elitists will not care about rolling blackouts or any energy rationing.
Waxman is simply attempting to implement the delusions of his voters.
The real thugery that needs to be uncovered in all of this, is the power play by the democrats that are having the ‘free’ cap components funnelled to their local industries in order to gain their votes. This cap-and-trade proposal is a major grab of energy resources for ‘special’ businesses and certain labor pools.
Look for the car companies in non-unionized states to be slapped with massive ‘cap’ taxes in order to shut them down for the greater good of the new ‘government motors’.
Also look for no new manufacturers to open any plants in the US. Since ‘new’ manufacturers will receive none of the ‘free’ cap-and-trade credits, it will be impractical start a new production line in the US. Certain ‘favored’ companies, like GE, will be allowed to move their ‘free’ credits from one facility to another, creating a monopoly for themselves.
While there does seem to be the possibility of a major trade war in all of this, more likely it will simply be removed from law, assuming it is ever actually passed. Unlike the various ‘government give aways’ that people feel a need to hand themselves, this kind of legislation can be revoked fairly easily with the right congress and senate. Of course, the cap-and-trade thieves may grab some cash for themselves in the short run, but without controls on imports, companies will simply off shore their ‘carbon intensive’ activities.
Waxman: “Heck, I don’t know what’s in these bills! If it’s anti-capitalism and pro-socialism, that’s all I need to know. I say, ‘power to the politicians!’”
Henry Waxman – dumb as a bag of hammers.
Thank you for re-electing this pagan Marxist, California.
Is he competing with Algore to become the next High Priest of Bad Science?
Can’t blame me zorro, the 30th district is a laundry list of libtard zip codes including 90210…sound familiar?
Maybe he found out his speed reader took to the “Evelyn Woodhead Sped Ridden Course” and really could speed read.
To underscore what a TOTAL MORON Henry Waxman really is, consider what he said during an interview on NPR as relayed by Tavis Smiley and you WILL NOT see this reported on NBC or any other liberal MSM news source:
WHAAAAAAAT!?! THAT is the most MORONIC thing I have ever heard! And the MORON who said it is ramming a bill through Congress to shackle our economy in order to fix a problem that simply DOES NOT EXIST! Making a remark like that shows that he may actually be so stupid that he has no idea how stupid he is! If he wasn’t in Congress he’d be on the short bus!
Obviously, anyone who makes an idiotic statement like that does not have a SINGLE scientific brain cell in his head and should not be ANYWHERE NEAR a position of power evaluating complex scientific decisions for us!
This is outrageous.
Hello Henry!… PHOTO OF THE USS SKATE SURFACING AT THE NORTH POLE MARCH 17, 1959 A lot of ice ‘evaporated’ Henry but gee whiz, where’s the “tundra” hiding? Maybe the sub is holding it down? And gee Henry, there are no polar bears in the picture; maybe the sub killed the polar bears?
These guys are not paid to read bills their K Street sponsors hand them, just get them passed.
“Damn it Jim! I’m a crooked politician, not a reading machine!”
This guy is talking about contracting the US economy by about a third, and causing poverty and misery for Millions of Americans, and he can’t be bothered to know what is in his own bill.
Instead he is relying on “scientists”…
Don’t you think Congressman should have to pass a test on their own proposed legislation before they are allowed to vote on it?
Another example of Peter’s Principle.
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?”
Waxman is the same twerp who, back in the day, we used to screw with and then take his lunch money.
What a gidrool.
And now that I’ve listened to his remark in the video clip, he says he relied heavily on the scientists at the IPCC and others…
Henry, I have a quiz for you. The IPCC is a committee under the United Nations correct? The United Nations is:
A. An ancient fraternity sworn to defend Christendom?
B. The place where everyone on Sesame Street meets?
C. A movie studio that made the film the “Pink Panther”?
D. A political organization controlled by a majority of third world dictators and thugs who would like nothing more than to see the USA brought to its knees by throttling its energy use?
Sometimes I think lobbyists write these stinking bills and pass them off to shysters to pass. Waxman is just the middleman…courier if you will.
Once again: We need a constitutional convention to create at least one or two amendments to irrevocably hamstring this out-of-control federal government. Build them a constitutional sandbox where they can do little harm. A flat tax, a balanced budget no higher than 15% of GDP etc.
Right now they can do as they please with no repercussions.
I think jangar has it right. Lobbists wrote this bill.
Read the WSJ article. You’ll see what’s happening. More clearly than a Congressman….
Good thinking, Red. That is the ultimate target of STARVE THE BEAST.
Restoring the Commerce Clause and putting teeth in the Tenth Amendment would go a long way, too.
None of them have a clue, they just act like they do. Question, how much is the zillions in taxes going to lower the temperature?
Waxman only LOOKS like a pig. Pigs are smarter, and better-read.
Thank goodness Christopher Columbus didn’t rely on science or we’d all still be in Europe, Africa, etc.
MOST people don’t read the small print. Checked your grocery store receipt lately? My theory is, he who reads the small print will often find mistakes. But for lawmakers not to read their own laws is outrageous.
On another topic: Go Nuggies!
So, Cap and Trade..
The government determines how much carbon an entity can produce, calculates a unit of measurement for that carbon and then charges those entities for those units. This saves the world how? Oh, I see, it saves the world in the Liberal mindset as it gives the Government control over how much any entity can produce.
Hog in a trough.. Spot on accurate.
Jeez, I miss science…
Don’t worry twofoot, we don’t let the pigs blog. We need them to gain weight and seeing Waxman would not be good.
Cap and Trade= More Control
Easy as falling off a pig trough.
Everything from California is a drain on the rest of the nation. Can we throw them out of the union?
Plate tectonics will do it for us eventually.
waxman another typical california parasite. if the crap california voters elect to represent it, is the best they have, it aint much.
waxman not knowing the details is nothing new, the slug hasn’t known the details of anything in quite some time.
To be fair to Waxman he is utterly clueless about pretty much everything.
We have created a system that manages to single out the 535 stupidest people in America every two years and send them to Washington, DC.
While this system does manage to rid numerous villages of their idiots it is making a mess of the country.
Ah, yes, my favorite quote these days:
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
txvet2: Don Martin was a comic genius!
Hell Waxman got his marching orders of China. He don’t really need to know what they say. The “useful idiots” did their job and now he is going his. The destruction of America.
While Waxman and friends are waxing poetic over Cap and Trade there is a big sell off of US Treasuries and we are in danger of hyper inflation: Can you say Jimmy Carter-Misery Index-Hell-o rising unemployment? Their cap&trade/national eco-tax bill is but a means to an end-the end of American Exceptionalism.
Waxman and ilk are Benedict Arnold writ large. IF we have one more free election, free of Acorn and court control, perhaps we can stop them. IF.
Pigs doth protest.
If this Bill passes, conservatives will have yet another platform to run on in ’10. Add that to Stimulus, Government Motors, Government Banks, Government Health Care, weakened national security and $4trillion in new debt and conservatives could take control of the government. That is, of course, we can get any conservatives to run as Republicans.
I had no idea that Obama could have screwed us so bad in such a short amount of time.
Nothing new here. This is norm and has been the norm for some time. Just sad that it “feels” like new news due to the lack of honest transparent reporting.
Waxman is just illustrating standard operating procedure by our legislators both federal and state.
The most startling aspect of this display of stupidity is that there is any debate regarding the criminal legislation at all. Hell, they didn’t really debate or read all of the porkulus bills etc, why are they bothering to act like they are now?
Tundra under the ice cap??? Is this guy the village idiot of congress, or just brain dead? Maybe we need to require an annual intelligence test of congress. Some questions might be:
1. What is your name?
2. Where do you think you are right now?
3. Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?
4. What is the lunch special today in the congressional cafeteria?
5. What direction would you fly from Washington D.C. to get to the NORTH pole?
6. What direction would you fly from Washington D.C. to get to the SOUTH pole?
7. What direction would you fly from Washington D.C. to get to the WEST pole?
(Ha Ha, this is a sneaky trick question)!
Number three is a trick question most people get wrong. The answer is Grant and his wife.
California has become the Junk-Bond State.
The U.S. is well on its way. Treasury Bonds are predicted to loose their AAA rating.
Environmental-based law will only damage our economy further.
Is it by design, simple stupidity, or people in big business and government doing what is rational for them to do with the power they have?
When will we take the power back?
You should have included a longer clip. The only thing we hear Waxman say here is that he “relies on the scientists”. Republicans rely on science too, when it suits their political agenda.
lgm: and Dems rely on feelings to suit their purposes.
lgm and the greenies “scientist” are generally political and social “scientist” as in the Union of Concerned Scientist.
Degrees in basket weaving do not impress.
A longer clip isn’t going to change the fact this gentleman is a blithering idiot.
Danceswithdachshunds said:
What really makes this hilarious/pathetic is that ice must first melt to create a liquid (above 32 degrees) then it evaporates into steam (above 212 degrees F). Does Waxman actually understand that to evaporate the polar ice caps, we have to reach temps greater that 212F (100C for you Europhiles)?
My guess is he does not know this or believes the worst case scenario of global warming (when our sun supernovas). Wait a minute, now we know the next environmental cause…mankind must research and take steps to prevent a solar supernova, especially since Bush/Cheney/Big Oil are causing it. Responsible liberals will take your remaining dollars after the last tax hike to deal with this.
On May 22nd, 2009 at 11:27 am, lgm said:
Why? We learned what sort of opportunistic grandstander Waxman is during the tobacco witch-hunt hearings of the early nineties.
Well that would be a first – Waxman relying on science – because as many KY tobacco growers-producers can tell you, he stayed well away from it during the tobacco hearings, which could have been proven had the media done its job and challenged some of the charges Waxman made at that time.
Over at AceofSpadesHQ, some wag commented that “chupacabra” is the old Aztec term for the mythical monster now referred to in Spanish as “ElHenryWaxman”.
No I believe he said he relies on scientists…and the consensus that they have…..which is and has always been a total lie. I don’t see Rs running around pulling that sort of stunt.
There isn’t a shred of physical proof to back the theory, and in fact all the physical data actually points to changes in solar activity. For example, the beryllium isotope data clearly shows decreased cosmic rays, implying greater solar radiation, that matches our climate change perfectly.
The IPCC scientists he’s relying on were so ethically challenged that they actually lumped all of the water vapor components of their climate change model under CO2. Water vapor is the most potent greenhouse gas and constitutes a majority of their calculated temperature increases. By lumping water vapor under CO2 it made it look like CO2 was the big cause. It’s basically fraud.
cabreski, Waxman’s hilariously wrong, but I don’t think you’ve got it right, either.
Ice can sublimate, just as frozen CO@ aka “dry ice” does, but at a much slower rate. That’s why you can see a light snowfall disappear over several days even if the air temperature is below freezing, and why you can sometimes see low fog hanging over snowbanks when the air temp rises quickly after a snowfall. And, of course, liquid water evaporates without being boiled.
Oh, one other thing: our sun is way too small to supernova.
Other than that……
And warming on Mars is also caused by…man.
Michelle, next time, please just the audio.
ElHenryWaxman/Chupacabra or the Goatsucker
Massachusetts has one also I do believe! It can also mean “mangy dog” but you can treat for the mange.
It’s slightly OT, but I was thinking the same thing. For those of you in the dark, the Evelyn Woodhead Sped Ridden Course is probably one of Cheech and Chong’s best routines. It’s only about half a minute long, does not reference drugs at all, and quite hilarious.
Well, ice does sublimate directly into the air basically bypassing the liquid phase just as frost is the reverse. So yes, all the ice will evaporate some day IF it stays below freezing to stay solid, (hmm.. that would not be ‘global warming’ then would it Mr. Waxman?), and we wait oh say.. guessing 10,000 years (100,000? or a very long time). Consider that Antarctica holds the majority of fresh water on this planet, (80%?), but it is technically a desert getting less precipitation than the Sahara, (less than ~4 inches per year measured as liquid). If loss from sublimation was any factor whatsoever there wouldn’t BE any ice there at all.
The point is that NOBODY ever said the problem with losing ice at either pole was the result of sublimation! He just made that up because he doesn’t have a CLUE what he’s talking about, (“Waiter, give me some more ice please, mine evaporated.”)
If he thinks the arctic ice is sitting on “tundra” then he clearly doesn’t even know that our submarines and others have regularly traveled UNDER the arctic ice via the north pole for over 50 years! I also doubt that he knows what ‘tundra’ is.
Okay, I take back calling him a moron. In regard to science, this man is an imbecile. Can someone from California 30th district PLEASE tell us why you voted for an imbecile? You did it as a joke right? Very funny…
Oops, I stand corrected. Right on part of it, but not all possibitlies included. Did not think all of it through. Guess that makes me ready to run for election and take a seat at the Democratic Caucus.
My head is bowed in shame.
I have been to the Alaskan tundra. We found caribou eating helpless little lichens so we shot a couple of the beasts. Now I have a caribou skin coat to protect me from the next ice age.
Making Alaska save for lichens, one caribou at a time. Henry Waxman could be mistaken for a caribou in the right light.
Hey California! Time to take responsibility for your actions!
Let’s see… Out of control budget, state bankrupt and totally out of control politicians:
Waxman, Pelosi, Schwarzenegger, Feinstein and a worthless state legislature. Methinks the problem is with you people! Get your heads out of the clouds (or some southern orifice) and get these boobs out of office!!! So few of you voted Tuesday that it looks to me like you have abdicated your state to loons like Waxman. If so, you have nobody to blame but yourself and you need to stay in the state that you messed up. Don’t move to Nevada, Arizona and Utah! Stay put and lie in your own bed of crap!!!
This pretty much sums up Congress…
Not only do members of Congress not read bills before voting in favor of them, it appears that they also do not write the bills.
Who IS writing these bills?
The members of Congress are nothing but figureheads for the people really writing the bills.
On May 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 am, prendad said:
What a dumb a$$Waxman is, he represents the people that send him to Washington quite well I’d say.
And by the way Rep. Waxman, science is not determined by a consensus as your fearless great snake oil salesman has told you, you know who I mean, Bear Man Pig alias Anal Gorbal.
I wish ICE would sublimate more illegals.
Kids often get F’s when they use Cliffs Notes to improvise their book reports. Legislators should be getting an F for relying on Cliffs Notes to comprehend the bills they supposedly author. We add rusty bolts and rotting limbs to this Frankenstein bureaucracy that strangles us, yet many Americans want a slow cheek-to-cheek dance with the Monster. Baffling.
Any member of Congress that says s/he hasn’t “read the bill” s/he is about to ram down our throats should be jailed until they DO read the bill. We wouldn’t have half the crap in DC that we do if those we ELECT would actually take the time to read what they are voting on–don’t have time then the VOTE is NO. Common sense—How hard is that???
My disdain for Waxman is only overshadowed by my disdain for anyone who would ever vote for him.He says that he relies on the scientists on the IPCC.This only demonstrates his ignorance(just like everything else I’ve ever heard him say), in that the IPCC panel is not made up of scientists,but a group of politicians,environmentalists and scientists.On a panel of 2500,approximately 800 were scientists,many of whom have disavowed the Pannel’s conclusions,because the Panel misrepresented those scientists reasoned research. The IPCC has been sued by some of the scientists,to have those scientists names removed from the IPCC reports.Waxman is a complete MORON.If he wanted a scientific view on the subject of Globull Warming he should read the Oregon Petition,which was signed by approximately 30,000 scientists.
If democrats truly acknowledged science, gay marriage, abortion and embryonic stem-cell research would be illegal and they would all support gun rights.
But, of course, when you’re Jeffery Immelt, Jeff Zucker and Al Gore, there’s millions and millions to be made while dumming down American college students and kids so it makes it easier to achieve.
But hey, if you want to be a subservient, blind bat to the whims of the liberal elite, lgm, that’s your problem, not ours.
Aides, lobbyists, relatives…
Heard recently of an intern who worked in a Senator’s DC office for a year and never saw him. True Story.
Says it all, right there.
Must not have been the Senators type.
They have all been written by lobbyists over the years…Just, dust ‘em off and your good to go.
sarc
what a sham! Somebody’s gonna get rich off of this boondogle. Just like radon
was everywhere in the 90s.
Yeah, where’s my radon detector, it might need new batteries. It was anthropogenic wasn’t it – cave men farts being released from the earth’s core? The details are hazy…
It is too frigging bad that congress just cannot find the time to read or write the bills they are sponsoring and voting on. But can you imagine these same people around heavy machinery, on cattle drives, trying to hang steel, as locomotive engineers, or nuclear reactor operators? Oh God what a nightmare.
Aside from politics…Henry Waxman is truly an unpleasant man to have to look at, or as my Father used to say, “he certainly has a face for radio.”
Back to politics, isn’t Waxman the same pantload who opened up a website, back in 2001, that asked his constituents for “any dirt” on Enron…while caring nothing about any “dirt” on Global Crossing, or the satellite company that Clinton authorized to sell U.S. aerospace technology secrets to China, or other companies, with crooked books, who were large donors to the Democrat Party?
I thought so.
Is this Rep. Waxman, D-CA, or is this Tobias Funke, Analrapist-CA?