Waxman Cancels Healthcare Show Trial
by Jed BabbinHealth insurance company CEOs will apparently be spared the public thrashing planned for April 21 by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Hollywood). Waxman notified committee members of the cancellation in a memo released Wednesday.
The memo implies that the companies which had been asked to appear – Verizon, Caterpillar, AT&T and Deere & Co. – were being less critical of the new healthcare law, but there is nothing to support that implication.
The memo says that, “…several companies and their representatives expressed the view that the new law could have beneficial impacts on large employers if implemented properly.” But the memo appears to back away from the accusatory letters and press releases which preceded it.
The hearing – the sort of public lashing that the Energy and Commerce Committee became famous for under Waxman’s predecessor, John Dingell (D-Mi) – was called because Waxman wanted to bash the companies for making (legally-required) financial disclosures of huge expected losses to be incurred due to Obamacare. (Caterpillar alone expected to lose $100 million in 2010, according to its financial filings).
In his demand letter, Waxman had demanded that the companies produce an enormous quantity of potentially proprietary (and some legally-privileged) documents. This demand was apparently canceled along with the hearing.
Before the hearing was announced, the Energy Committee’s ranking Republican, Joe Barton of Texas, took to the floor to denounce Waxman’s intimidation tactics. He condemned the April 21 hearing and Waxman’s announced investigation into the American Farm Bureau’s opposition to the global warming tax “cap and trade” legislation Waxman’s committee has passed. Barton accused Waxman of using his power to intimidate Americans out of using their First Amendment rights, and suggested that Waxman’s actions should be investigated.
And, equally revealing, is the staff memo which accompanies Waxman’s announcement.
That memo says that the committee’s staff investigators found that the companies had followed the law by filing the loss reports Waxman wanted to attack.
We don’t yet know whether the companies did as I suggested in my original piece on these hearings and refuse to produce privileged or proprietary information. If they did, they should be congratulated. Waxman never wanted to find fact, only to bash the healthcare heretics and score soundbites on the evening news.
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No surprise here.. WaxPOS had no choice but to cancel. They wrote the laws that these corporations adhered to in terms of accounting write down. What a stupid, stupid man…. He belongs to California forever !
Why doesn't he go after a REAL AMERICAN THREAT like chewing tobacco ? OH WAIT !
Do they get any more ignorant and stupid than Waxman ??
What??? No trial? I was hoping to see Waxman and the other Dems get pounded by the CEOs.
I wonder if they will bring GE CEO's up to capital hill now that they paid $0 ZERO dollars in federal income tax for 2009. Somehow I don't think they will!
Kind of a shame he didn't hold these hearings….just for the giggles. The CEO's would have eaten (disgusting thought, sorry) him for lunch !
Reading the staff memo would seem to indicate that Waxman is fluent enough to speak out of both sides of his mouth at the same time.
I wonder want could be of better press value that he needed to cancel this public execution.
Maybe looking into how GE could have paid zero dollars last year in taxes would be more interesting…
All this, and yet the Left in this country doesn't understand why they are going to lose this fight.
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I'm a realist and I know that Corporations are generally a-moral interested in making money but that doesn't mean they are evil and are secretly colluding to kill puppies and poison rainbows.
But Mr. Waxman being the good leftist who has never had a real job before, is always looking for the hoary hand of greedy business.
I was looking forward to that trial.
Can't imagine why what's the worst that could happen?
henry "Nostrildamus"waxman looked into the future and saw he would be exposed as the progressive shill he is and didnt want his feelings hurt. Lets all send him a ribbon.
Darn, I was really looking forward to those executives blistering Waxman.
CONGRATULATIONS, Mr and Mrs Waxman! It's a girl! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article...
Good evening ladies and gentlemen,……….this is Katie Curic with the CBS evening news..
We would like to start this evening's broadcast with the breaking news that the nation's CEOs have,………………..
complied with Senator Waxman's DEMANDS and that these companies,……………………..
Waxman knew he was had. CEO's following the law vs. Leftist Senator Showtrial. Even MSM would have to work hard to make this sow's ear look good. Olberman would have given a go though.
Anyone else notice the resemblance of Sen Waxman to the character in Dilbert that had his nose job botched? http://www.dilbert.com/2010-04-13/
Is it me or does Waxman look like he chases parked cars?
I still say that these companies call WAXMAN to testify before THEM! They should demand all his internal memos and what made him think this would save them money. Make that POS prove his numbers for once. Its OUR Country, not HIS, he works for US! Ask anyone on the street who fudges their numbers more, AT&T or Congress?
We as a nation just haave to start standing up to these self-important a$$holes. We need to blatantly demonstrate the sheer stupidity of their policies. They continue to wrap their actions in the cloak of compassion while ignoring the growing mountain of unexpected, inconvenient, unintentioned destruction wrought in real life terms.
For instance the CRA sounds utterly admirable but look at the real unintended consequences that catastrophic housing collapse.
These touchy feely, well intentioned progressives need to OWN the results of their policies. Meaning well can no longer be an excuse for destructive policies. There are too many REAL LIFE consequences to their actions:
EPA, Planned Parenthood, Great Society, HCR, Cap and Tax, open borders: each of these have clear and demonstrable negatives that need to be exposed,,,,,BIG TIME
The light was shined in his little beedy eyes and he flinched.
I think even the pig faced stooge was figuring out that 1980 and Atlas Shrugged were not good scripts to follow, not openly anyway.
And had a nose job by Jacko's plastic surgeon. But he really could not expect much due to having it buried up San Fran Nans backside for years.
Me too. I was really hoping for a smackdown.
Then Waxman would have to explain his new and exanded offshore savings account, he probably does not want to go there.
Well the question remains.
CALIFORNIA is this what you want to represent you?
Thank God the genes skipped the baby!
I lean more towards a sienfeld inspired pig-man scenario myself, this would explain the us taxpayers wallets are just feeding troughs mentality
GE is the Obama Administration's Halliburton,,,only on steroids!!
GE has a heavy hand in nearly every aspect of Obama's great agenda. Health Care and Energy. Funny how all that GREEN Jobs went overseas and how this huge beneficiary of all the stimulus and green energy dollars did not result in a single dollar of taxable revenue here in the USA.
Absolutely disgusting and Obama needs to OWN it. The lefties hung Halliburton around Bush's neck, GE needs to be tied to Obama.
Looks like he ran into the back end of a few too!
I would liken Waxman to some episode of twilight zone, where he is Capt Ahab out on the ocean hunting moby dick, then when he pulls the trigger on Moby, he discovers he just harpooned himself in the Ass.
Waxman is from Hollywood. And who said politics is show business for the ugly?
is waxy related to Babe??????
you're so cruel!!!!!
and yes he does…..
No, but he did have a recurring role on the 60's series Green Acres.
they do, however, plot to poison puppies and kill rainbows.
Seriously, how do libs get these ideas?
Chase them? no
Catch them? definitely
His face needs retreading.
Waxman cancelled them because he didn't want to star in the republican campaign commercials.
Waxman most favors a wharf rat.
I'm waiting for someone within a Corporation to stand up to Obama (the Dictator wannabe) and this liberal Congress. Then tell them where to get off. Come on, wouldn't you all have liked to see the head of GM tell Obama he couldn't take over GM?? Because if it had gone to the supreme court Obama would have lost. Obama keeps running around and acting like he's a King who can do whatever he wants. Somebody please stand up.
Maybe the cancellation of this hearing scared Waxman off because at some point someone was going to tell them we still have a Constitution.
This waxworm picture just proves that these far left liberal progressives are the UGLIEST pieces of sh_t in the WORLD!
One thing I wonder about — If Obamao had taken over the country ten years ago, before there was a Big Government site, would this have stood? Would he have needed to reverse field and say never mind?
I think that, ten years ago, the show trials would've gone off as planned, with the MSM dutifully wagging their tails and telling Waxpig what a brave American hero he is.
Too late, cat is out of the bag on how they will use the heavy hand of government to silence critics big and small for disagreeing and making them look foolish by pointing out their folly.
Health Care bill costing businesses billions and billions? — how dare they follow the law and report it!
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That, or the RSVP's he was receiving stated something along the lines of F*** Off & Die Socialist Swine!
You'd think his brain would benefit from unobstructed oxygen flow thanks to those ample nostrils. But I guess they're just for show – much like nearly every Congressional hearing Waxman has ever called.
What is 'a moral' about feeding your family and paying a dividend to your investors who are also trying to feed their families?
Business is very honorable.
At least we are not parasitic government workers.
The Republicans should have their own media covered Health Care show trial with these CEO's where they ask the CEO's the questions Waxman and his fellow Marxists would have asked and then sit back and watch as the CEO's tear Obama's Health Care plan a new one so the public can see the evidence first hand of what will happen to business and jobs as a result. Just because Dems cancelled the trial to save themselves from embarrassment doesn't mean the Republicans couldn't have a trial to expose the truth about Obamacare.
Their underlying philosophy and world-view is a filter that only allows them to see business as a group of people (bourgeois pigs) exploiting another group of people (the proletariat) , and Waxman is the noble Government apparatchik (of the people) gets to save the day.
The American voters gave Obama 60 senate seats and a majority in the house.
First was the website Big Government, then Big Journalism, now I think Breitbart needs one called Big Brother. This administration is abusing its power and trying to suppress free speech. Little to be heard about that in the MSM though.
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Could the Dems ever get tired of Demonizing people?
HA!…HAHAHA!!!!!
Oh, my side!!
LOL! Hey, you inspired me to do a Photoshop morph. I'll post it soon.
Yes indeed!! We could all use some honest-to-goodness belly laughs….
Waxman should be a HUGE proponent for free plastic surgery. Blech! He's hard to look at.
Sorry I just tell it like it is. 
*snerk* I don't feel so bad about my comment now.
Don't insult Babe.
LOL! I'm with WeWeed on this one, too freakin' funny Connie!
They should have marched him thought the DC tea party yesterday, everyone would have ran away in horror. Look out "its Nancy Pelosi"! I know what I am wearing this Halloween!
ROFLMAO!
I think AreaMan was making a point about not all businesses shoot straight all of the time. Waxman is of the mindset that ALL businesses are out to do their Machiavellian best to do what they want and damn the consequences. Remember how Wal-Mart was skewered by the Left? They think that every business is Wal-Mart.
I think he an Nancy Pelosi are the same person, you notice you never seen them together? Put a wig and a dress on him? Hmmm……..
LOL, stop it, you're killing me!
Welcome to the land of fixed districts. How else do you think these idiots keep getting voted in? Boxer, Pelosi, Waxman…
Don't worry, the Left is working on that whole "Constitution" thing. Pretty soon, you won't have to worry your pretty head about it.
Nostrildumbazz.,got his panties all in a bunch.,maybe next time he will read the bills he is passing.,,lol. like that will ever happen.,what a disgracefull moron.,hey california is this piece of crap all you got.,,
Zing! Love it!!
The CEO's schould show up any way!!!!
What a facsist, un-American little man. I don't know if belongs somewhere running a banana republic, in a cell or hanging, at the end of a rope.
We really do not need these abuses of power, not in my America, no thank you sir.
Rep. Henry Waxman is an integral part of the Washington Rat-hole: http://i40.tinypic.com/4lss9g.jpg
Leftists should want all business entities to make as much money as they possibly can. The more money they make, the more the government can collect in taxes, both corporate and personal. The more they can collect in taxes, the more pork and social programs the dems can fund.
Great idea. Maybe it could happen if we ever get to put these b*stards on trial for treason for attempting, with malice of forethought, to destroy the USA economy, to facilitate a overthrow of the country,
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Yeah, and I think the CEOs were going to also show that the analysis that Waxman kept screaming about was all wrong, and that would have come out proving those who opposed this bill/la were right all along, and he and the dems can't have that. I'm more than willing to bet that Queen Nancy had a talk with Waxie and told him to shut his show down, that they (the dems) can't afford for this to be looked at too closely. It's just going to quietly go away because they think that we, the American people are stupid. Let's show all the dems up for election or re-election in Nov just how stupid we are. Vote every democrat out of office. Send the dem party a message they will never, ever forget.
Ahhh, now I get it, Waxman represents Hollywood…No doubt he travels
with a make-up artist to get that "exotic" look he has!…lol
If we had a Waxman sized nose full of nickels we could afford National Healthcare!
In fact, if you looked up his snout you can see the extra 7 states Barry has visited.
You give these self serving weasels way too much credit. Any perceived compassion is a mere ruse to obfuscate their REAL intent…
The only one I can think of more stupid and arrogant is Pelosi. I am embarrased I live in Kalifornia.
Way too funny!!, Thanks for sharing!
Actually it was the carbon tax that stopped Nostrilitis. He could not afford the carbon tax from his nose output.
He is so short, midgets come to him for encouragement.
Yes, and don't gorget the weasel StoogePak was going to be part of the show. The Dems traveling Cricus will have to move on ( and leave more elephant crap for all of us to scoop up)
I didn't know he was married to Pelosi! Well that explains a lot.
I know that Waxman is a bolshevik Jew.But don,t he look like a low life SS officer in the German army.He is a scary looking animal isn,t he.
I agree.
It's beyond belief that Comrade Barry keeps expanding his powers and reach!! And he does it by osmosis or merely deigning it so. Is this a parallel universe? WHAT HAPPENED TO CHECKS AND BALANCES.???
Alas, no, but I am greatly outnumbered. We are a national disgrace and joke for voting these clowns in. Look at Boxer, Pelosi, Waxman, Waters. i want to puke.
We should demand Mr Piggy go on with his show
That is why Net Neutrality and the Fairness Doctrine will be coming back from the dead. You just wait…..
That is great idea – if they had the balls to do it. I am not sure they can call hearings without chairmanship of the committees though.
BEAST Tom… 666 variety.
Oh no. We got Pelosi, boxer and Waters too! Ugh. I am ashamed for my fellow Californians. This shows the true evil of gerrymandered districts by the way. State as a whole is not this liberal.
I'm afraid you're exactly right. Good point, good comment and a sad truth.
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" I know that Corporations are generally a-moral organizations interested only in making money…"
Well, yes and no, far too many big corporations are whimps that take the path of least resistance, think GE and the insurance industry, and sucked up to our incoming socialiist ovelords against their own best interests. If you examine the political donations of Big Business far too many of them give much more to Democrats. Now they are stunned that they are thrown under the bus? Talk about hubris and smarmy behavior backfire.
I'll feel bad for America's corporations when they stop funding the interests of the anti-capitalist Democrats disproportionately. It is fun to see the opportunistc snakes at Goldman Sach, big time Dem funders and lap dogs, get their clock cleaned by their Messiah. It's so Tony Soprano. Pass the popcorn.
Here it is:http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3513/wharfratwax...
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Lame Photohop work: me
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I was so looking forward to seeing this sh!th*le made a fool of. Isn't there any way we can force the hearings to take place?
In case you don't revisit this thread…..
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You mean Henry voted on an almost 3000 page bill that he did not read in its entirety?
Waxman, the face of evil! Did you take a look at that picture!
You're sure right about that! But I think the Hussein regime would've been impossible 10 years ago. We've lost a good number from the 'greatest generation' and, unfortunately, many of their votes were replaced by mindless, selfish children, programmed by an increasingly insane / partisan MSM and indoctrination, by and for government, in their schools.
You slay me bro!
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That’s too bad. I was looking forward to some political ears getting pinned back. But we are dealing with the unholy alliance of mega corporations, and their perceived masters in Washington.
Usually these hearings are as dull as dishwater, perhaps with the exception of Ollie North and the other democrat witch hunt Iran-Contra. It’s not tough too make Nostrils Waxman and cronies look dumb…when you fight back.
This guy is just too creepy!
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