Waxman Inquisition cancelled
Victory! Democrat Chief Inquisitor Henry Waxman has retreated from his attempt to intimidate companies who dare speak out about the costs and consequences of Obamacare.
His April 21 witch hunt session has been cancelled, according to left-wingers. (Update: Fox also reporting same.) The event is still listed on the House Energy and Commerce with the press release from last month, but no further information.
Cancellation confirmed by House GOP here.
Perhaps Waxman and Company thought better of it while contemplating the prospect of a nationwide revolt by all businesses who are simply complying with disclosure laws and accounting principles, and telling the truth about the burden of the Dems’ crushing mandates.
Never fear, though. Waxman has moved on to his next jihad: He’s calling for a ban on chewing tobacco in Major League Baseball.
Hey, Torquemada, whaddya say?
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More from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: Video of GOP Rep. Barton blasting Waxman.
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Wow.
In many respects, I’m disappointed. I was rather looking forward to Waxman meeting Petard.
Great news for the day! Is this slug waxman up for election this year? If so, please vote him out people!
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He chickened out because it would make he look even dumber than he already is.
Somebody’s been beaned one to many times.
The logical result of realizing you are about to get your lunch eaten by professionals who know very much how to defend themselves.
Facts do have a tendency to bite you.
Same here, this would have been some fine C-SPAN. I would have loved to hear some of the answers to little piggy’s rediculous questions.
Probably when he realized the list of those companies hurt by socialized medicine was miles and miles long, it hurt his case more than intimidated the companies.
How many citizens would see their employers listed, and realize hcr was going to hurt them personally? Or companies in their retirement investments.
As I understand it the companies were to appear at the witch hunt loaded for bear. They had facts and figures that would make the Dems look foolish and show that Obamacare is a lie.
I hope they find a way to expose these crooks.
He’s up for election every two years, like everybody else in the House, but his constituency is Hollywood. Good luck with voting him out.
The companies should show up anyway and demand C-Span cover it.
This is caused by too much air intake.
Trying to answer critics as to the real reason for cancelling the inquisition, Waxxmann claimed, “Well, it’s as clear as the nose on my face… ”
.. uh, never mind.
Civic lessons needed.
I say to the corporations and companies that were ready to testify that they should do it anyway. Hold a HUGE press conference and bring all of this out in the open. The people need to see the kind of damage this is doing to our economy. The ONLY reason Waxedman canceled the ‘show’ was because they must have realized this was going to backfire on the Dems and the Obama Administration.
Chicken … see the chicken run.
Too bad. I had realized this was a huge strategic mistake, to drag out coverage of the hell care fiasco, how it was passed, the damage it would do to the economy, for weeks. Even on the MSM.
Maybe, just maybe, if the GOP gains the House in November, and Nancy Lugosi loses her USAF Sky Party Limo, Republicans can call thse same leaders back to the House, to explain to a friendlier audience, how hell care is costing them millions, and how many workers they won’t be hiring because of it.
No need to vote him out. Just make sure he goes out in a pouring rainstorm, and with that nose, he will drown. Please don’t chastize me for that remark and call it “repugnant”. You know you were all thinking it too.
I’ve got a few questions myself (for Waxman). Ron Paul actually touched on my concerns in his questioning of Bernanke earlier today. Since Paul didn’t say anything ‘outrageous’ nobody will carry it.
Essentially Ron Paul got around to talking about the IMF and the bailout for Greece. He asked where that money was going to come from as the new bailout will increase US involvement in Greece’s bailout through the IMF to over 100B dollars.
Paul asked, where is that money coming from? He asked if we are going to do the same if California turns into Greece or will we help foreign countries and not US states? Where is the money coming from that Congress continues to spend?
Some is coming from these companies that are losing their write down. Ron Paul is right and dead on about domestic fiscal issues. This country is at far greater threat from overspending in the next 10 years than any foreign military threat. We don’t need a military expert to be president, we need someone to stand up and say ‘STOP SPENDING MONEY THAT WE DON’T HAVE!’.
Ron Paul asked why we are spending 100B to bail out Greece when we are broke. Bernanke said it wasn’t a Federal Reserve decision. But the point remains.
Me thinks its a case of …
“I want the truth!”
“You can’t handle the truth!”
Waxman is up every two years. Not quite as safe a hardcore lefty district as Pelosi’s flatus sniffers, hence she was chosen as Speaker.
BTW, every ‘Blue Dog’ supposed moderate that voted for Nancy Lugosi basically outed themselves as a Marxist in the closet.
She can afford to be the public face of her party in the House, because her seat is very, very safe. Worst outcome, like I said, into the minority and lose the government sky limo with fine inflight meals and booze.
Is this really the best use of our time and money? Can’t we do something constructive? Like oh, I dunno, put together a budget as mandated by statute? Oh that’s right, they don’t want to have a bloated deficit increasing budget to vote on just before the election. Silly me, tobacco use in baseball is a much bigger problem than the budget.
I’m soooooo disappointed!
I was really looking forward to Waxman and his Democrat sideboys squirming as the attempt at bullying revealed them to be not merely thugs but fools who didn’t read their own legislation or understand the consequences of it.
I guess even Waxman has somebody on staff to keep him from stepping in the pile he left on the sidewalk yesterday.
REALLY??? If true, that is beyond OUT OF CONTROL! Who do these congresscritters think they are??? I don’t believe you will find that anywhere in the job description of a congressman! Personally, I think it sends a terrible message to our youth when ball players chew. But that is not for Congress to mess with!! Do these idiots really think they can regulate every aspect of our private lives. Sigh…yes, I know they think that. But they are going to find out how wrong they are!!
I don’t like the fact that Ron Paul will not distance himself from neo-Nazis and real nutjobs, or the fact he has never passed a bill in the House, but he is true to the Constitution as far as domestic spending and the authority of the House.
I was in Austin about a month ago for a wedding, the son (I had never met) of my cousin, and his fiance’, who had been relocated to Austin from Tennessee. I found out they had met at a Ron Paul student group at Tennessee.
There hearts are in the right place, anyway.
DITTO!
I wonder how the Commerce Clause can be stretched to ban tobacco in sports.
I wondered the same thing when McCain was one of the people who held the entertaining, if probably not exactly Constitutional, steroid hearings.
Hmmm, the 10th amendment was an amendment. Written after the main body of the Constitution.
So why does the Commerce Clause trump the 10th Amendment?
Obviously, it shouldn’t, but it does…
There isn’t a Constitution anymore, to these people in D.C.. They have a new one now, that is written as they go about in their attempts for total power.
Michelle:
Tomás de Torquemada was, in the context of his time, a rather moderate, judicious and careful man. It should be remembered that the Inquisition was a response to mob persecutions, intended to impose Church law over the lawlessness of the mob, and that a great deal of the horror attributed to the Inquisition was Protestant propaganda.
That said, you do old Torqi a great disservice by comparing him to the poster boy for “Short Man’s Disease”, Henry “Nostrildomis” Waxman.
When the going get tough—–
Wrong analogy
So why does the Commerce Clause trump the 10th Amendment?Entirely too many Americans are trying to be “reasonable”. But rejoice that they keep pushing for our day will come and we can do it right.
Ed #17
“Nancy Lugosi loses her USAF Sky Party Limo”
Bingo – funniest line I’ve read all day! I needed one after all the grim reaper reports out there.
Well, well, I guess he’s not as dumb as he looks.
Oh, for cryin’ out loud!
Nancy Lugosi: “Listen to them…children of the night. What music they make.“
April 14, 2010
How Bad Could 2010 Really Get For Democrats?
A 100 Seats? Nice chart inserted for trends in losing majorities.
On a more serious note…
Waxman, as I predicted, somehow became convinced that Obamacare would be FURTHER damaged by having the corporate execs on THE RECORD.
http://hindenblog1.blogspot.com/2010/03/burn-thug-ugly-waxman-mau-maus-law.html
I’m not so sure this is exactly a victory. I would have rather seen those executives explain the consequences of this bill to Waxman like a parent scolding a child. Strangely, the Dems don’t seem so eager to talk about this disaster anymore and are hoping the public forgets the whole thing by November.
How about a ban on players scratching their crotch? Oops, better not give them any ideas.
Really-Barney Frank see this post and major league baseball will never be the same.
Like this?
With those nostrils on Waxman, it’s a wonder anyone can stand within a three-foot radius of him. Gotta be able to suck all the oxygen within that space.
ROFLMAO!
What are the chances that the MSM inquisition people will report this stunning turn of events?
I suspect they will say NOTHING! They will simply let the previously reported lie that these companies are ‘bad’ be the last word they report.
With his nostrils, he’d have to ride a motorcycle with a faceshield. Otherwise, every dog in the neighborhood would start barking and no one would know why.
I was thinking that as well as appreciating why rats and cockroaches are horrified by the site of Waxman.
Mel Brooks reference (“The Inquisition! What a show!”) for the win…
Piglet must’ve caught the scent of an ill wind!
NOBODY expected the Waxman Inqisition!
As I understand it, the dems are backing off a lot of stuff until AFTER the elections. Not all of couorse, but a lot of things that would further anger a lot of their constituants.
With that apparatus, that could include the redolence of an Indian slum…
Not only can I see all the hairs in his nostrils, but I can also tell he has it parted on the wrong side.
Hangfire: har!
and Rogue: snerk!
To the left, I’m sure.
Congress is one racketeering operation I would like to see shut down. Imagine closing Congress for 10 years at least and repealing all the gawdawful laws they have passed. Have the states submit a stipend to the government for their yearly spending and no more. What a delightful world it would be.
Exactly! So you can see it too?
Look close, he’s got that Alfalfa spike thing happening in the back. A real trendsetter he is.
True, but the French Braids are a nice touch.
Hangfire and spaceycakes…damn good stuff!
The real inquistion should be of Waxman, and all those in congress that took an oath of office to protect an uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and broke that oath. To quote John Adams “The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men”.
Dirka, dirka.
If the Dims dont want to follow through, there is one reason only: they think it will hurt them. I think Republicans should summon all of them back, and have them give testimony which will be heard by MILLIONS of Americans as to the destruction this Bill will cause American businesses, and our Country.
cancelled health insurance for retirees…now old people will be on their own…medicare cuts make it official…who needs death panels…
Hangfire–I think I just got in trouble for laughing out loud.
Gary?
he’s a muthaf*ckin’ hustlah—-you bettah ax somebody!
Doesn’t this warrant an Emily Littella??
BTW, the “nostrildomus” and other comments have me rolling on the floor!! This is too sweet to not enjoy. And the CEOs *should* get together and hold their own news conference. I’d love to watch all the Dhims scrambling to try to stop them somehow!!
OT
al-NYT about to expose DoD security agents in Afghanistan as part of a turf war between the CIA and DoD?
It’d be nice, but since they are outbumbered on every committee, they won’t be able to hold official hearings.
If they want to invite (not subpoena) the businessmen to an unofficial hearing (I think Conyers had unofficial Bush impeachment hearings a few years back), they could, but the State Controlled Media would ignore it.
I agree. I don’t really see this as a victory but as a loss. It was stupid for Waxman to ask for it and now he is off the hook. If a company is required to do these writedowns, then they should have no trouble supporting it. They should already have the docs to support it for the SEC so no extra work is even needed.
They would just say, here is the proof that this is correct. You are the buffoon Waxman.
Shout it to the rooftops, not sweep it under the rug. Too bad.
I can’t look at that picture of Waxman pointing his finger without thinking of the old movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. I can almost hear him letting out a loud squeal while pointing out those who have not yet been infected with his big government, high taxing, far left rhinovirus.
waxman has the perfect image for the people he represents in Kalifornia, the land of the fruits and nuts…in his case from Beverly Hills to Sana Monica to Malibu. All stable, patriotic people, depending on the rolls they are playing…or the meds their on.
This guy not only votes he has power in the congress, ain’t America great.
Companies should show up anyway and DEMAND hearings to defend themselves against being smeared by this little twit.
They should testify as to exactly how the socialization of health care will affect:
1. Their hiring.
2. Their ability to invest in their business or expand.
3. Their ability to retain current employees.
4. What it will cost them to comply.
5. How those costs might be passed on to consumers.
6. How it might affect their share price which will affect any investors or those with any type of retirement plan.
7. How it will affect their ability to compete with foreign companies who don’t have the same burden.
Let it be broadcast on C-Span. Let everyone know why layoffs might occur, or why some might not get a raise, or why some might not be able to get a job, and who is responsible.
T
Well put, he knew he was out brained, another huf ‘n puff like the rest of Hollywood lefties…you know fantasy land. Is not Johnny Dip(it’s spelled right) the only loud mouth to actually move after Bush became president?
NOOOOOOOOOOOO one expects the Waxman Inquisition.
Fetch the Comfy Chair!
It’s a shame Waxman is still in Congress.
He was a good actor. I loved him in The Secret Of Nimh.
JD–which one was he?
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It’s going to be interesting to see if the voters in Waxman’s Kalifornia district have had enough yet.
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Bring it on in the November 2010 election! Vote “the schnozz” into FUNEMPLOYMENT then.
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John Bibb
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FOX should interview the execs instead. One at a time or in a special. Betcha the execs are already prepared.