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Rep. Henry Waxman [liberal champion] to retire from Congress
La Times ^ | 1/30/14 | Richard Simon

Posted on 01/30/2014 8:04:39 AM PST by ConservativeMan55

WASHINGTON – Rep. Henry A. Waxman, whose legislative record has made him one of the country’s most influential liberal lawmakers for four decades, announced Thursday that he will retire from his Westside seat, the latest in a wave of departures that is remaking the state’s long-stable congressional delegation.

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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Of course.....Waxmen wants no part of what’s coming in the 2014 mid-term elections.

What's coming?

Are you suggesting the Republicans will not aid, abet and support this upcoming this country killing amnesty?

Lets hear it.

101 posted on 01/30/2014 9:27:47 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Justice must find all these Free-America-hating traitors...eventually.


102 posted on 01/30/2014 9:32:10 AM PST by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: ThomasMore; MinuteGal; Q-ManRN
***Islam is the Whore of Babylon!***

Very insightful ...

103 posted on 01/30/2014 9:32:13 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Good. Then he can spend his millions on plastic surgery so he won’t scare the horses.


104 posted on 01/30/2014 9:33:20 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: null and void

I don’t have the link handy on my smartphone, but see the last line of George Will’s column today on the Oklahoma Obamacare suit ..


105 posted on 01/30/2014 9:36:36 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: ConservativeMan55
Good.

But don't expect his seat to go Republican.

In fact, expect another barking moonbat.

106 posted on 01/30/2014 9:37:42 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

This only means something if we can oust Boehner, McConnell and all other establishment RINOs


107 posted on 01/30/2014 9:40:16 AM PST by golas1964
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To: tanknetter

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3117369/posts

George Will’s column...see last couple lines...


108 posted on 01/30/2014 9:41:14 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: TurboZamboni

“Notrildumbass is going back to his crypt.”

LOL. I have always referred to him as Nostrildamus myself.


109 posted on 01/30/2014 9:42:49 AM PST by ohioman
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To: ConservativeMan55
I certainly hope he do not have something terminally wrong.
My blood pressure cannot stand another State Funeral for one of these Fascists sons of the beach with the pious media eulogy's telling us "What a Great American" he was.
110 posted on 01/30/2014 9:43:10 AM PST by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Here’s how it works. You leave your job when a better job comes along or when you’re at a high point. He knows it won’t get any better in the House for Dems so he’s going to feather his nest with a lucrative apoointment somewhere. I guarantee in a few weeks he’ll be somewhere in DC doing something for his master.


111 posted on 01/30/2014 9:45:07 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: goodnesswins

Thanks!


112 posted on 01/30/2014 9:47:16 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: ConservativeMan55

Indeed and it will be big.


113 posted on 01/30/2014 9:51:17 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Bogey78O

Yes, and to spell things out a little more explicitly (ref the last part of George Will’s piece linked to above) with Obama’s much expanded use of EO’s the Congress can either rubber stamp what he wants, or complain when he does something by fiat.

IOW Congress is just relegated to being a very expensive debating society. With no real power. THAT will be consolidated in the Executive Branch.


114 posted on 01/30/2014 9:59:30 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter
I don’t have the link handy on my smartphone, but see the last line of George Will’s column today on the Oklahoma Obamacare suit ..
By dispensing subsidies through federal exchanges, the IRS will spend tax revenues without congressional authorization. And by enforcing the employer mandate in states that have only federal exchanges, it will collect taxes — remember, Chief Justice John Roberts saved the ACA by declaring that the penalty enforcing the mandate is really just a tax on the act of not purchasing insurance — without congressional authorization.

If the IRS can do neither, it cannot impose penalties on employers who fail to offer ACA-approved insurance to employees.

If the IRS can do both, Congress can disband because it has become peripheral to American governance.

Yes, yes, but why would congress critters stand up and cheer their own demise???
115 posted on 01/30/2014 10:01:48 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: ConservativeMan55

‘Bout time!


116 posted on 01/30/2014 10:02:16 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: null and void

Because, as David Horowitz (I think) once said, the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

In this case, Horowitz’s comment can be interpreted as the end goals of Progressivism. Waxman probably cares very little for his own personal power, for power’s own sake. He does care about how he can use that power to advance his agenda and ideology, in service to his cause. And Congress is increasingly irrelevant - by intent/design - in doing so.

So like I said, the Exec Branch is now the place where the agendas will be advanced. It’s admittedly much cleaner way of operating. All strong executives, ones with the ability to rule by fiat (EO) are. Congressional power was a useful tool, but it was also very messy and unpredictable ..

Is that it?


117 posted on 01/30/2014 10:14:33 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: null and void

The “so they think” part is about where I’m at. Getting them out of DC where regular folks can get a krack at them is a good thing. After being traiterous thugs for a few decades they all might wind up in Bimini or some such hidey hole since they can’t bring their DC security home with them. There needs to be some serious retribution for these dirtbagz that have spent us into such a hole.


118 posted on 01/30/2014 10:16:14 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: dragnet2

Hopefully....the massive political defeat of the Democrat Party & POTUS Barack Hussein Obama!!! And....please do not associate me with “any” Republican RINOs or establishment types. I cannot stand them, McCain, Romney, Graham, McConnell Cornyn, Christie, etc., etc.!!! I am not a Republican.....I am a conservative, and have been such my entire life!!!


119 posted on 01/30/2014 10:20:51 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
A 40 year history of putting lawful businesses out of business, by his lying and scheming House "investigations of wrong doing!"

Where do they go to get their reputations back, Mr. Waxman?????

120 posted on 01/30/2014 10:28:30 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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