WSJ:
Mr. Waxman, speaking for the upscale precincts of Beverly Hills, wants to phase out coal and cars that use gasoline. The coastal elites who now dominate Democratic politics will happily trade the blue collar for the green collar.Like George Miller, Barney Frank and the other liberals produced by Vietnam and Watergate, Mr. Waxman belongs to a cohort whose power has been checked — one way or the other — by Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton’s New Democrat tendencies, the Republican sweep of 1994 and George W. Bush. Now with a new Democratic President and a crisis to use as a lever for a sweeping expansion of government, they aren’t about to let an old warhorse with scruples about the costs of regulation interfere with their moment to govern.
Outlaw motorcycles run on the blood of bureaucrats and gas siphoned from the tanks of private town cars and RFK Jr’s jets.
And when we dismantle the tracks on which the elites plan to keep the prole cattle cars running, we will rule the streets — and beat back “progress” with the studded stick of individual liberty.
CAN. YOU. DIG. IT….?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 11/21 @ 12:13 pm #
Well then, let’s just go ahead and exacerbate this little crisis we have. For the soul cleansing. And the chirren.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/21 @ 12:13 pm #
Waxman is a PROPHET, baby.
His aka is ‘Nostrildomus’.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/21 @ 12:16 pm #
What’s Waxy’s take on nuclear power?
Comment by Cepik on 11/21 @ 12:28 pm #
“CAN. YOU. DIG. IT….?”
Word!
Comment by brian on 11/21 @ 12:37 pm #
Waxman’s stance on nuclear mirrors his stance on all other energy forms that are viable. He’s against it.
I suspect we’ll see Paul Ehrlich’s stupid face in the near future. After all, his stance was always that “giving mankind access to unlimited cheap, clean energy would be the equivalent of giving a machine gun to an idiot child.”
Comment by Techie on 11/21 @ 12:46 pm #
Hey Waxman, Change begins at home. Try banning Hummers and Escalades in your district and see how well that goes over…….
Comment by Log Cabin on 11/21 @ 12:59 pm #
Could they also ban damn loud motorcycles and the power-stroke deisel trucks that go up and down the street at all hours of the night? I hate those inconsiderate fuckers with the burning heat of a thousand suns.
And yes, I am a cranky old fart.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 11/21 @ 1:02 pm #
You know who’ll be in all this, too. That Massachusetts congresscritter that’s against nuclear and anything he thinks is dangerous or scary-sounding: Markey.
Comment by Carin on 11/21 @ 1:04 pm #
Ha ha ha! The joke’s on Michigan Union workers!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/21 @ 1:10 pm #
Waxman’s stance on nuclear mirrors his stance on all other energy forms that are viable.
That’s what I figured.
My personal litmus test to determine whether someone is a true environmentalist or not: ask his or her opinion on nuclear power.
Nuclear power is the safest, cleanest, most environmentally friendly, and most sustainable form of energy production known to man. It could be the most economical, too, if the hippies didn’t force every new plant to go through 20 years of lawsuits before getting an operating license.
Some environmentalists understand this.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 11/21 @ 1:18 pm #
The embrace of unreality always has its consequences. When this doesn’t work, the result will be unpleasant.
Comment by Techie on 11/21 @ 1:20 pm #
Congratulations Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Colorado. This is what YOU voted for. Enjoy.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 11/21 @ 1:28 pm #
Techie, some of us have to freakin’ live in these states, you know. Not all are “look for the union label” types.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/21 @ 1:44 pm #
Ha ha ha! The joke’s on Michigan Union workers!
Attention coal-miners in Lebanon, VA: How much lipstick does it take before a closed mine look doesn’t look like a closed mine?
Comment by Celtic Dragon on 11/21 @ 1:46 pm #
The death of the US was never going to come from without, it always was to come from within. The death of a thousand economic cuts, began by the New Deal, slowed by WWII, rolled back slightly by Kennedy and Reagan, is back in full swing. This time the economic retards have firmly grasped the tiller of the state, and are gleefully yelling “DER!!” as the guide us onto the shoals of economic disaster.
But remember, it’s for our own good, and as the ice begins to accumulate, and the denizens of our northern states are forced to move south, in their horse-drawn wagons, our “betters” will tell us that it’s our fault, we weren’t ecologically pure enough.
Feh…
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 11/21 @ 2:21 pm #
Look on the bright side. This morning on CNBC I heard a guy say, “You’re not the only guy who’s bottom got violated yesterday.”
I giggled like a schoolgirl.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/21 @ 2:24 pm #
Sadly, Techie, Waxman and other of his ilk will insure that the glitterati get their exemptions as will the big money donors.
The Kansas farmer driving a big assed pickup truck? Not so much.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/21 @ 2:51 pm #
Waxman will have to work within the constraints of Baracky’s reaching across the aisle though. It’s gonna be interesting to see how this plays out with an uncompromising free market stalwart like John McCain on our side.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/21 @ 3:01 pm #
Waxman’s reaching across the aisle is limited to stealing a Republican’s pocket comb to style his nose hairs,I think.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/21 @ 3:07 pm #
Waxman’s reaching across the aisle is limited to stealing a Republican’s pocket comb to style his nose hairs,I think.
or putting one congress critter back that he accidentally hoovered up into the abyss.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/21 @ 3:09 pm #
Ha, Maggie: “IT’S DARK IN HERE! I CAN’T SEE!!!”
Comment by Celtic Dragon on 11/21 @ 3:20 pm #
18: That was the funniest thing I’ve read all day. Kudos, sir…
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/21 @ 3:46 pm #
Waxman aide: um, sir, you’ve got a, um, a wingtip, uh, hanging. *rubs nose*
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/21 @ 3:55 pm #
What it means is that the Democrats will bail out the auto industry under spotlights, and then in the darkness of committee rooms they will enact regulations to destroy it. Nice work if you can get it.
Comment by Techie on 11/21 @ 3:59 pm #
Sadly, JohnAnnArbor, We’re neighbors (not knocking you, but this state). At least the cherries are nice.
Comment by Huey on 11/21 @ 4:08 pm #
Hey Log…. stop with the loud motorcycle bitching. You know they do that for safety. That is why they ride wearing flip flops, shorts and wife beater muscle shirts. It’s all about safety.
Real outlaws are stealthy and avoid the identifying marks left by road rash.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/21 @ 4:32 pm #
Pelosi helped install this putz, to help advance their radical cap and trade carbon legislation.
Waxman is a strict disciple of the debate is over, AGW, crowd. It’s amazing that these tools can even profess this faith in the face of the mounting evidence to the contrary. But, alas, this is part of the phenomenon of new science; one not based on facts and consistent results, but on consensus and tainted computer models that are full of baseless factors, exaggerated constants, and desired outcome based structure.
And I thought that kind of fluff and connivance was restricted to the subjective political, and social, sciences…
While I have no love lost for Dingell, his forced retirement, in spite of the congressional tradition of seniority, is simply another example of the Democrat’s determination to push their agenda by whatever means necessary…
Comment by David McKinnis on 11/21 @ 4:34 pm #
Waxman’s giving himself a reach-around and that’s just a rude thing to do in public.
Where’s ma shovel?
Comment by Senator E. Buzz Miller, PhD on 11/21 @ 6:17 pm #
My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the motor law
And on sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire, where my white-haired uncle waits.
Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind,
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me, an old machine —
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red barchetta, from a better, vanished time
I fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime…
Comment by MarkD on 11/21 @ 6:50 pm #
I wonder what those UAW bigwigs are thinking now? They helped empower the instrument of their own destruction. Vote for the Dems, they’re against oil. Shoot yourselves in the head much, Michigan?
Of course, NY is no different. When those coal fired electric plants close, we’ll be freezing in the dark.
Comment by geoffb on 11/21 @ 6:52 pm #
It’s done a “new” way but it is just our New Left’s Lysenkoism. It always needs a patron to prop it up since it can’t stand on it’s own.
Comment by geoffb on 11/21 @ 7:00 pm #
With “card check” the vultures will move on, to the next easy meal. Leaving the stripped rotting carcass of the auto workers in their rear view mirrors. Just little people, nothing worth bothering with now that there is no power to be gained from using them.
Comment by A Conservative Teacher on 11/21 @ 7:57 pm #
I wrote about this on my blog too, a day before the WSJ came out with it. Pay attention to this type of info- the Democratic Party has been hijacked, and even old guard liberals like Dingell no longer fit in the party. America is changing, be ready.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/21 @ 10:37 pm #
When Waxman held his ~~”supplements, steroids, and growth hormone in sports” hearings, he kept calling vitamin B12 “vitamin B16″, or something, even after being corrected. Soon everyone gave up with the let’s-try-to-correct-Waxman thing.
But, Dingell, at least he could tell a good lie: when asked about the solvency of SS, Dingell replied [as he also exited stage], ~ “SS is invested in the safest of all things, Government Bonds.”
Yeah, except “we the taxpayer” have to pay off those “bonds” all over again, you can’t trade those particular bonds - so they are not bonds - and we the taxpayer have to pay the SS obligation even if there are no “bonds” whatsoever involved.
But the wiley Dingell had already left.
It was around 1988. But I remember where I was* when I saw Dingell say this. So it must be very important.
* I was down in the basement, watching Dingell.
Comment by Baghdad Dewclaw on 11/22 @ 2:22 am #
So while were running those outlaw motorcycles on the blood of the stupid and the gas of the clueless, who gets to play “Lord Humongous… the Warrior of the Wasteland… the Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rollah?”
I get dibs on the gyro captain spot…
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Comment by MarkD on 11/22 @ 7:39 am #
Unions are about making money for the union. Helping their members, not so much. I hope those jokers at WalMart and other target rich environments ask a union member what they get for their money. This card check thuggery is extortion, and ought to be mocked down on the floor.
Unless the Democrats want to do away with the secret ballot for all the congress, including committees and caucuses. There really is no bottom to this crowd, is there? I wouldn’t let them clean my toilets.
Comment by J.Dahmer on 11/22 @ 7:40 am #
Congratulations Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Colorado. This is what YOU voted for. Enjoy.
Don’t forget Virginia, it’s gonna be interesting watching all the State politicians who endorsed Obama spin the coal restrictions and gun banning to come.
Comment by McGehee on 11/22 @ 9:07 am #
FTR, I’m pretty sure the only place a member of Congress might ever be able to cast a secret ballot is in caucus. Votes on official stuff that might actually become law are either recorded, so that constituents know how their member voted, or by voice vote — as in, “It is the opinion of the chair that they ayes (or nays) have it.”
Leaving aside conference committees, I suppose. Wouldn’t mind being able to see what members do and say in there.
Comment by Before Gore, Kneel on 11/23 @ 4:59 pm #
Waxman shares the Democrat’s weakness to which they are blind: Both he and they are not-ready-for-prime-time. Don’t mistake the importance of a position with the capability and political prowess of its holder. Waxman doesn’t have the right stuff, never has, and the hard scrutiny of being at the top will not help his agenda.
Waxman might have become another top rooster on their weathervanes and although he may show the direction of the wind, he really sucks at stopping lightning. Before he’s done, he’ll be lit up like a jack-o-lantern.
Comment by Harry on 11/23 @ 9:06 pm #
Hey now- WEST (BY GOD) Virginia went for McCain! Not only that, we didn’t send any new Dems to DC. I’ll take the blame for Byrd (the senile, bloviating gasbag), but not for Obama.