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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Translation:
I’ll just take my ball and go home if you don’t play by my rules.
Once a thumb sucker always a thumb sucker.
What? No headlines and “thoughtful analysis” about how the Democratic party is falling apart?
The ends justify the means, eh, Dishonorable Waxman. You know better than than the process, right?
OHHHHHH… This is going to get good…
(munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
Obama has brought crooked Chicago politics to the nation, not that it wasn’t there previously, but Liar Barry has mad it soooo much easier and ‘acceptable’ to the Dems and the entire left.
More from Reuters:
There fixed it for ya Ol’ Henry.
That’s right, Waxman probably doesn’t know what’s in this one either.
Let us know how that goes Henry. It will crash and burn on the floor no matter what Nanny says. They don’t have the votes. I’d say have at it. Better to fight and die today than it should live to fight another day.
Could our prayers be coming true???
Does the hull of the Unsinkable Democratic “Titanic” monopoly have a serious crack?
Praying for the Blue Dogs, their families, and friends!
Vince Foster keeps coming to mind.
Isn’t there some way to remove these people from office?
This is against the will of the majority.
I can hardly wait for Katie Couric’s breathless report of this outrage.
Oh yeah, I forgot: she is one of the Obamalickers.
Nevermind. Maybe we will be treated to a story on cankles like on the CBS Early show this morning.
“Our” committee…
Well Mr. Waxoff.
I won’t allow you to hand over control of OUR country to Socialists.
What a total tool!
The left has completely forgotten they were elected, not annointed.
I CAN’T tell you how sad I am for America and how scared I am for the future of America.
Do these Dems have nightly ‘burn the constitution’ parties?
How can they be so far away from what our founders intended and what so many millions of decent Americans before us here made so great?
I think it is time for the Blue Dogs to switch over to the Republican Party.
Remember these words, my friends. It’s all about power. Another translation could be:
Control doesn’t belong to you, Congressman. It belongs to the citizens. Think about what Jefferson wrote in 1776 about “consent of the governed.” Pompous, arrogant, greedy SNOB!
ACHTUNG!!! VE HAFE VAYS OF GETTING YOU BECK IN LINE!!! VE KNOW VHERE YOU LIFF!!!VE KNOW VHERE YOUR FAMILY IS!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_this_tomorrow.jpg
While I’m sure most wouldn’t pay much attention to the polls, it is interesting to note that in the past 2 weeks the RCP Congressional Job Approval rating has dropped like a stone. Scroll down and check out the graph.
This little snot of a man will only help them slide further. Go Henry Go!!!
Dems are in power because they were elected by our welfare recipients. Most on welfare have no vested interest in anything other than continuing to receive their entitlements. They do not own property, maintain a job, or contribute to society.
As soon as amnesty for illegals goes through, our precious Republic will be lost to Socialism (or worst) forever!
Folks, this isn’t anything to laugh or snicker about.
They are going to pass this piece of crap.
Errah
The determination of leftist ideologues like Waxman to cram this up our collective arses before anyone — including themselves — has a chance to even read it has me torn between two mental images:
- A corruption of Admiral Farragut’s immortal command: “Damn the American People! Full speed ahead!”
- or -
The scene from Monty Python & the Holy Grail, in which Waxman is the dead-body collector grimly trying to haul the American People off on the cart while they’re saying “I’m not dead yet!”
Obama Job Approval Rating
Rasmussen Reports 7/21 – 7/23
1500 LV
Approve 49
Disappove 51
Spread -2
This only shows that this the Schwerpunkt to their plans.
This one we need to win.
However, if they ram this through and “win” they can be crushed in 2010. Since non of this nonsense is shceduled to take place till 2011, we have time to put in on life support and then pull the plug.
I’m not convinced they are going to get it passed. Much like it was for “Comprehensive” Immigration reform, the public is wising up to what these traitors are attempting to do. The Blue Dogs realize a Yea vote will likely cost them their jobs.
What we are in danger of though is if they and RINO’s like McCain agree to some compromise. Which is sickening.
That’s like refusing to allow yourself to be executed by firing squad and then saying “Ok” to a compromise by lethal injection.
this is the perfect example of why we can’t possibly trust our libs in charge of anything. i’ll just change the rules if you don’t give me what i want. i’ll filibuster republican judicial nominees. i’ll stop you from sending out congressional literature, because i don’t like what it says. i’ll ignore the committee vote if my own party members who aren’t foaming at the mouth libs from the coasts don’t give me what nancy wants. RAHM IT. now that’s bipartisanship which conservatives should learn and once back in power practice early and often.
Have Pelosi, Reid, or Waxman EVER held REAL jobs?
Just curious.
They won.
Keep calling and emailing your reps!
Pressure from the voters must counteract the pressure from the Dem House Leadership!
There is actually a provision for this in their Bill.
We are officially bankrupt now. If they pass this monster it will throw us into complete insolvency. It’s only a matter of time anyway, the path they’re going.
Once this thing is in motion, and they deny my MIL either a replacement hip or pacemaker I’m headed to court on her behalf for age discrimination.
OTOH, would this be a bluff on SanFranNan’s and Waxman’s part?
Obama Licking = Toad Licking
Very well said, and quite, sadly, true. To many people are on welfare and entitlement programs. These programs simply need to end, and Americans need to turn a cold shoulder to those who will starve because of it. They are dragging this country to it’s grave, and need to be shed off like dead skin.
Waxman, Pelosi and Obama’s stooges are subverting the Constitution and becoming enemies of the Republic.
Errah
Not unless you call arranging oreos in a circle a job . . . .
My mother-in-law ran a church-sponsored food pantry for 20 years. Those who will “starve because we turn a cold shoulder to them” arrived (repeatedly) for their free food in Cadillacs!
America is the most generous country on the planet. Our churches are the most charitable. There is an enormous difference between charity and entitlement.
T.K. ~ LOL!
Just joining this thread now.
I’ve been keeping Chappy busy in an earlier thread.
You’d think that, being from California, that Waxman would have had his nosed fixed by now.
Actually, if he were my representative, I’d fix his nose myself for free.
If nuts like Waxman, Pelosi and Obama’s goons attempt to skip the committee process, subvert the Constitution and take this communist health care sham directly the floor they should be sued in the federal courts. These idiots must be stopped before they destroy the Nation. At the point where the Constitution becomes inconsequential, the Republic will be dead and chaos will prevail.
Yeah, he’s doing that himself. Yea!! Keep up the bad work, Mr. Waxman.
Gosh, I can’t stand looking at the man, and listening to him is even worse. How can anyone work with him?
Is it just me, or are many these Democrats simply caricatures? When they run for office, what do they offer other than comic relief? They are obviously not hired for their expertise.
Henry Waxman = Mole Man
Jane Harmon = Ice Queen
Tim Geithner = The Elf
Robert Reich = The Hobbit
Rosa De Lauro = The Gollum
Jerry Nadler = Jabba the Hutt
Help me out, here!
Hangfire: Actually he needs to keep it in its present configuration as the air flow through those two large vents (nostrils) keeps his pea-brain from overheating from the task of keeping track of all the lies, deceptions, trade-offs, etc. he has to keep track of or make.
Barney Frank = Baron Harkonnen
Duh One and his cabinet = Orc’s
Sarah Palin = Ellen Ripley
Kathleen Sebelius = Nurse Ratched
…and air is free (for the time being)!
Dexter and tre;
Good ones!
“Blue dogs heel”? How about “Waxman melt”? Much better. And if he’s going to bypass committees — he’s already bypassed requiring members to read the stupid bills! — the diminutive weasel can just ram it out there for a vote. If the Congress goes home and asks the voters’ opinion, they’ll never have the votes for this crap when they come back in the fall.
I want them to vote on this fiasco. I want the public to see who in the House votes yes on this thing. The Senate is obviously not going to be voting for months. In the mean time the public will have the chance to see what several in the House voted “For”.
I can’t imagine better news.
Gotta wonder if several in the House realize that as well and will vote “No” and the thing gets defeated.
Either way, VOTE! YES! VOTE on it!
It gets worse.
Hugh Hewitt (Monday or Tuesday) had an audio tape of a teleconference between Obama and hard left bloggers.
One of them asked about reconciliation.
In this case, ‘reconciliation’ is a vote in the Senate to approve an item already funded in the budget, but not specifically authorized. It is not subject to the filibuster. 50 votes and Joe Biden would pass it.
Obama said if Democrats defect in the Senate, so that he can’t get a cloture vote, he will demand the Senate pass Obamacare as a ‘reconciliation’ item on a simple majority.
The Senate parliamentarian is a Democrat, and his decisions aren’t binding anyway, the presiding officer of the Senate can do as he pleases.
BTW, Obama is meeting Reid and Baucus today to demand an Obamacare vote before recess.
Headline I’d like to see:
Waxman Wanes
Health Bill Eclipsed by Opposition
Rahm Emanuel = Hannibal Lector
I was thinking Wormtongue.
Harry Reid = The Mole
Pelosi and The Space Alien’s seats are safe. They can do what they want, I suppose, and need not a single of the ‘Blue Dogs’, not on their side.
Obama, of course, knows every day more damaging aspects of his bill to incrementally force Marxism down our throats becomes public, and the bill becomes increasingly unpopular.
Re: the House Blue Dogs, even if they vote ‘nay’ 49-0 their existence in Congress is a reason Pelosi is speaker. That point should be driven home against them if Obamacare passes, that their just being in Congress is part of the problem. They aren’t the entire margin of the Dems over the Republicans, but they are a big part of it.
Reminder, the Blue Dogs voted 38-11 in favor of Porkulus. They aren’t that moderate to begin with.
George Soros = Blofeld
“To attempt an understanding of Muad’Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
from Manual of Muad’Dib by the Princess Irulan “
Dexter Alarius said:
Dead On lol
I was actually thinking of finding someone that does animation and create a site called”The Screeching Eels”. Just a Eel cluster with the heads of Pelosi,Boxer,Helen Thomas etc – and the asinine quote of the day from each. never panned out though.
Texas Governor Perry may reject Obamacare on 10th Amendment grounds
That’s kinda difficult….
I’m thinking alphabetizing a bag of m&m’s is work for which they are qualified.
On July 24th, 2009 at 2:07 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
We are seeing Falsehood and Darkness aplenty.
Where is our Muad’Dib?
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Who would be Keyser Söze?
Let’s be careful what we wish for…
Pelosi = Gumby?
What with all the platic involved, but then again, Gumby was MUCH less annoying!
Perhaps it will be a sister of the Bene Gesseritt, by the name of Sarah.
Pelosi = Atia of the Julii
Whoever it is I hope they have a Gom Jabbar for the Libtards’ agenda.
Ed Mahmoud
Let freedom ring and God bless Texas.
Pig-nose Waxman is enjoying the power, something runts like him NEVER enjoy in the real world.
At least, with his ears, he has something in common with The One. Two, in fact.
Henry Waxman = Porky Pig
Tom Coburn = Han Solo
James Inhofe = Indiana Jones
Nancy Pelosi = Dolores Umbridge
“That’ll do, pig.”
Well, it will all come down to what Anthony Kennedy had for breakfast the day of oral arguments if Perry files a suit based on the 10th amendment to block Marxist Medicine.
Helloooooo??? Aren’t we all Americans? How about doing what is best for the entire country?
The call, faxes and e-mails are working.
PLEASE KEEP IT UP, intensify even. I just called one of the blue dogs, Mike Ross of Arkansas.
Call the blue dogs, your Congressmen and women. Keep the lines hot!!
Mike Ross DC number:
202-225-3772
Nostrildamus had better remember that the dems won’t always be in control. Their arrogance is blinding them to to fact that We the People are waking up! Could be the smell from all that crap that they are desparately trying to shove up our noses!
Is it too much to hope that Mr. Gopher gets voted out next election? Along with Nanny and Babsy? CA has enough problems without these yahoos!
Incredible. People like Waxman have done what I thought was impossible; they’ve given me hope for the Republicans. Keep on keepin’ on, ole Henry! Your self-destruction is a wonder to behold. Too bad you’re taking all of us down to the ocean floor with your party.
It has never occurred to Congress to do what’s right for the American people. This may for once be the Waterloo for the deadwood that’s piled up in D.C.. I don’t think they have any idea how much against this bill we are, and how long we will hold a grudge. I will make it my life’s ambition to pull every negative story about every single one of them and send them out to people I know in their areas, at least until the Net Czar peels my mouse out of my cold dead hands.
Barney Frank = Anthony Weiner
Barack Obama = (an evil) Steve Erkel
This is what you get when the inmates run the asylum. Why hasn’t somebody put Waxman in a straight jacket and throw him in the ocean.
Legosi=Shelob
Don’t tick off the Lord High Admiral of the Kremulaks.
Who is the “puppetmaster” for our march toward Socialism???
My opinion ~ Soros
Obama = Erkle.
No. 11-cankles. Isn’t that what Hillary Clinton has—oops, maybe it’s cackles. Let Waxman bring it to the floor for a vote and see him get his a$$ waxed by the Blue Dogs. Commies one and all.
Yup, that’s a score!
Evil Erkle from an alt. universe!
Looks like the Blue Dogs nuked Waxman. It’s not often you publically accuse a chairman from your own party of lying.
WOW
What ever happened to the “we’re screwed” crowd around here? Things sure change once conservatives abandon “working through the party” don’t they?
Go Sarah!
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.