Waxman wants Blue Dogs to heel, signals committee bypass

From Ian Swanson at The Hill:
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) says there is “no alternative” to having healthcare legislation bypass his committee if Blue Dog Democrats don’t agree to legislation.
Waxman said if the seven Blue Dogs on his panel do not relent, they could join with the committee’s Republicans to “eviscerate” healthcare reform.
“I won’t allow them to hand over control of our committee to Republicans,” Waxman told reporters.
The chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, Representative Henry Waxman, said on Friday he would let the full House by pass his committee on healthcare reform if the panel could not reach agreement on its version of the legislation.
Three cheers for deliberative democracy.
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Blue Dogs, paging Blue Dogs, your death counselor is waiting.
The GOP, phhttttooooeeeeee!!!
It is tiring for the country to be held hostage by the wackos CA continues to elect.
Ah, so many previously unidentified fellow Dune geeks here.
Actually I think watching Cap & Tax and Socialized Medicine spiraling in toward terra firma has given some of the doom & gloomers a bit of a spark.
Porkulus spending bills
“fairness” doctrine
Employee “free choice” act
Crap and Raid
Socialized healthcare
Amnesty for illegal aliens
Radical unelected czars
Trashing the Constitution daily
Refusal to drill for oil
Refusal to build nuclear plants
Big Brother in your face every day
Corruption at every level of govmt.
Mafia-thug intimidation tactics
And by the way, how is that border fence coming??
These traitors are going down…HARD! I guarantee it. They are crashing and burning as more and more people are waking up to this horror show.
Hilarious, but Geithner reminds of me of PeeWee in the Porky’s movie series. Maybe we are all cast in Porky’s IV: PeeWee’s Revenge. In the movies, PeeWee’s name was derived from a supposedly anatomically-correct depiction.
Funny, that in real life, men who are “underachievers” feel the need to express their testicular fortitude by lording over others.
is that from the ACORN manual?? sure sounds like it….
I think its time people remind them what it is like to actually have to work.
July 30th is another chance to protest this insanity!
“Call in Conservative”-
If you can arrange it– don’t go to work,
do not spend money to buy anything that day,
and/or spend the day calling reps, signing petitions, or writing your Congress about not wanting this bill nor Cap and trade.
I have a feeling we are going to be seeing these “Galt Days” in increasing frequency!
Noted: Some people hate this idea—some people hated the first “porkulus protest” in Seattle too…
This is 6 months people. Six months and the Dems are already gouging each others eyes out. Italy has a better track record for ruling coalitions.
Obama is acting like a guy who doesn’t believe he will be there for a second term.
Sounds good to me
Piss on you, Henry.
Piss on you, Henry.
Exactly what they’ll do me thinks.
I hope he does bypass the committee. This will break the ice and when the republicans take over in 2010 we can bypass any committee that we know we are going to have a tough time with.
This is also the sure sign that we need to throw out all incumbents. They can’t be bothered to read the bill and they stand to see it debated on it’s merits. if it doesn’t get debated in committee and it doesn’t get read before they vote then who knows what is really in it?
Just for Spite I wish a Texas repub would slip a line in there outlawing democrats and wait a week after it passed and let them know they all had to go home.
My husband calls Waxman “Hogwart.” Seems appropriate.