Waxman Wins
| Thu Nov. 20, 2008 8:19 AM PST
WAXMAN WINS....The news keeps getting better and better. The House Democratic caucus just voted 137-122 to replace John Dingell (D–General Motors) as chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The new chair will be Henry Waxman, who cares deeply about global warming and will be a huge ally in the fight to get serious carbon legislation passed next year. This is change we can believe in.
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John Dingell (D?General Motors)
Oh, I see what you did there. Normally, you are supposed to list the state represented after party affiliation but you wrote General Motors because Dingell acts like he is their representative. Very clever. Why not just simply (D-GM) though? Don't trust us to get your jokes?
John Dingell (D?General Motors)
Oh, I see what you did there. Normally, you are supposed to list the state represented after party affiliation but you wrote General Motors because Dingell acts like he is their representative. Very clever. Why not just simply (D-GM) though? Don't trust us to get your jokes?
John Dingell (DGeneral Motors)
Oh, I see what you did there. Normally, you are supposed to list the state represented after party affiliation but you wrote General Motors because Dingell acts like he is their representative. Very clever. Why not just simply (D-GM) though? Don't trust us to get your jokes?
Waxman in, Dingell out. Excellent. Next, oust Barney Frank from chairmanship of Banking & Finance. Then, and here's my big wish: Remove the pigheaded, loudmouthed, knuckleheaded, hypocrite Charlie Rangel from Ways & Means. Getting rid of Porkbarrel partisans could help meritocracy trump cronyism in Congress. That's a change we can believe in.
What's Representative Waxman's record on building or rebuilding large industries? Had a lot of success there, has he?
This is cute. I love it when two-time voters for President Flyboy see fit to lecture Democrats on what gubmint *really* ought to be doing. Anyway, I'll say this for Waxman -- he didn't help usher the Big Three to the verge of bankruptcy & into irrelevance, as Dingell & the devoutly pro-business/anti-science Bush EPA did.
"This is cute. I love it when two-time voters for President Flyboy see fit to lecture Democrats on what gubmint *really* ought to be doing."
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It wasn't a lecture, it was a question, which, of course, junebug may ignore if she is ignorant of the answers and would rather continue throwing spitballs.
One would think any reaction to the Waxman victory would include some speculation about how he might deal with the primary question before his committee.
What form of the Big Three bailout does he favor? What is he likely to require in return and is what he wants likely to actually help the situation?
His being more "green" is indicative of his orientation, but will that orientation get in the way of what's necessary?
It wasn't a lecture, it was a question...
No. It was lame snark directed at Waxman, and, considering the radical underachiever you hitched your little pig of a wagon to for the last 8 years, it's pathetically misplaced.
His being more "green" is indicative of his orientation, but will that orientation get in the way of what's necessary?
Seeing as our current sub-$50 per barrel oil prices will be extremely short-lived & are likely to at least triple within the next year, Waxman's green orientation, as you put it, does absolutely nothing to prevent Detroit from turning a profit. On the contrary, Waxman's green foot up the collective asses of Big Three execs could be just what's needed to cure them of their torpor & get them behind production of a fleet of fuel-efficient vehicles that Americans will be lining up to buy when gasoline hovers between $4-$5 per gallon, as it's bound to do in the next couple of years. Consumer demand for these vehicles only grows if an Obama administration offers tax credits for buyers of these cars. Waxman's committee is pretty much guaranteed to be totally in sync with the administration, not only because they have similar outlooks, but because Waxman's former top policy guy is now Obama's chief congressional lobbyist. I'm sure Detroit can still manage to fuck things up, but it won't be because of Waxman.
"On the contrary, Waxman's green foot up the collective asses of Big Three execs could be just what's needed to cure them..."
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If they survive the cure. Government direction of the privately-owned means of production didn't work for all that well for the folks who first tried that on a large scale. But who knows, maybe it'll turn out better that it did for the fascists.
Government direction of the privately-owned means of production didn't work for all that well for the folks who first tried that on a large scale. But who knows, maybe it'll turn out better that it did for the fascists.
Funny thing happens when you ask someone for $25 billion. They expect you to perform according to their stipulations. If GM, or anyone else looking for that kind of a massive bailout, doesn't feel they should have to abide by such stipulations, they're more than welcome to seek the funding they require on the open market. But go ahead and splain to the rest of us how that's fascist.
