Dishing on D.C — Pot Dissing the Kettle

First Visit in Four Years. . .Feeling the Heat, Henry?

http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2012/07/15/news/news3.txt

In
a sudden move to shore up votes along the Malibu shore, Congressman Henry Waxman
paid a visit to the Malibu Democratic Club July 8.

He has not visited
Malibu in over four years. Perhaps sensing for the first time in his over-long
career that he has a real challenger, Waxman wasted no time attempting to swipe
at and wipe away Independent Bill Bloomfield as a serious
contender.

Describing his viable challenger as a millionaire who bought
his votes, Mr. Waxman attempt to roll up the challenge to his reign by claiming
that the 33rd is heavily Democratic, one which will very likely push him into
one more term in office.

Yet for all of his talk about the need for
bipartisanship in Congress, he whined about the intense difficulty that he and
his likeminded, or mindless, colleagues faced in passing ObamaCare.

He
falsely claims that President Obama reached out to Republicans, when in truth
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was shoved through both houses of
Congress with backroom deals, subsidies, and every other unthinkable
parliamentary maneuver.

Waxman neglected to mention that a significant
minority of Democrats also voted against ObamaCare, and just recently five
Democrats crossed partly lines to repeal the legislation once again. Not just
Democrats, not just Republicans, but voters across the country do not like
ObamaCare and want it repealed.

The gridlock in Washington is a confirmed
result of voters who are slowly accepting that reality that this country cannot
continue spending money that it does not have on programs, measures, and
entitlements which are unaffordable.

No remark elicits more ridicule than
Waxman's harsh take on the "toxic" tone which now dominates in
Washington:

“nasty and polarized.”

How does the Congressman
justify the trumped-up charges that he leveled at professional athletes while
taking down steroid use in major league baseball?

How does Waxman justify
his boorish behavior toward fellow Congressmen during his tenure as chairman of
the House Oversight Committee?

How does he justify his repeated attempts
to stall legislation that would create jobs, like the Keystone Pipeline, which
does not pose a threat to the environment, while federally guaranteed loans to
Solyndra and other subsidized green companies have gone to waste in the landfill
of bankruptcy.

For Waxman to dish on the hyperpartisan positioning in
Washington is like the pot calling the kettle black, beaten, and fired up. He
has authored and engineered legislation contrary to the best interests of the
country and the American people, Cap and Trade as ObamaCare, both of which will
kill jobs and shrink investment.

In another hollow yet brazen attack,
Waxman contended:

"They [the Republicans] also want to fund tax breaks to
billionaires by cutting services to the poorest of the poor.”

Under
President Obama and his progressive colleagues, including Henry Waxman, there
has been an unprecedented explosion in poverty and federal assistance. This
country has more poor, more unemployed, more stagnant recovery, than since the
end of World War II.

The Obama-Waxman agenda creates poverty, diminishes
wealth, and frustrates the liberty of the citizens and the businesses in this
country — the real wealth creators.

To end the gridlock of tax, spend,
waste, and fraud, Waxman must go. He already senses the rising upset threatening
his extended tenure in Congress.