WHITE HOUSE HEALTH CARE MEETING - LIVE THREAD

The White House ^ | 2/25/10 | Blueyon

[blueyon]

Televised Meeting to talk about healthcare..........

[wizard61]

Maybe most of the folks will now see why Obama was not eager to put this debate on c-span...

[PhiKapMom]

Both sides look like they just want Waxman to shut up!

[onyx]

Oh maggief! Was that necessary? I guess so. LOL.

[paulycy]

Maybe most of the folks will now see why Obama was not eager to put this debate on c-span...

Bingo.

[jennyjenny]

Why is Nancy saying there is no time to wait when this doesn’t even start for 4-5 years? They make me sick.

[LaybackLenny]

“Waxman, who represents Beverly Hills”

That should answer your question.

[maggief]

Son of Waxman.

EEK!

[Jedidah]

Cornyn isn’t voting for Obamacare, no reason to bash him.

Get to work on Sheila Jackson Lee or Chet Edwards and quit pestering the good guys.

[raybbr]

Was he on ‘Green Acres’

Yes.

[TomasUSMC]

Hold down the cost by bring everyone into the system...means tax everyone more and more into eternity.

[onyx]

LOL. As the talking pig maybe.

[Eagle of Liberty]

OOOOH! 2400 pages of an amazing bill to extend the solvency of Medicare 7 TO 9 YEARS! What a joke these people are.

[kingattax]

the only thing that was agreed on by everyone today :

waxman isn’t very telegenic

[Red_Devil 232]

Miss Julia - what ever you are serving to your family will be delicious - I am sure!

No donut holes - a biscuit cutter eliminates the hole.

[Jane Long]

And these are the exact folks who'll be denied the most excellent care we ALL now receive. They don't get that they won't be able to chose which hospital they'll go to for ER, etc.

They just think we'll all be "equal". We will...equally scwooood!

[Republic Rocker]

Even Zero said enough political hacker Waxman.....

[paulycy]

waxman isn’t very telegenic

LOL!

[maggief]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011021604106924.html

EXCERPT

These are the men who have run Washington this past year, and they are Mr. Obama’s de facto cabinet. The nearby photos show some of the most powerful, clockwise from the top right:

• Ed Markey of Massachusetts, first elected in 1976, helped to ram the cap-and-tax bill through the House and has pushed relentlessly for the EPA to declare carbon a pollutant under the Clean Air Act that didn’t mention carbon.

• Wisconsin’s David Obey, elected in 1969, is the House Appropriations chairman who steered the $787 billion stimulus to focus on Medicaid expansion and other transfer payments that have done nothing for economic growth.

• Henry Waxman, first elected in the Watergate class of 1974, deposed John Dingell in 2008 as too moderate to run the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Hollywood liberal is co-author of the cap-and-tax vote that will cost numerous Blue Dogs their seats.

• Pete Stark, class of 1972, runs the health subcommittee on Ways and Means and has written most of the House health reform that has forced moderates to walk the plank on the “public option.”

• George Miller, class of 1974 and chief enforcer for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has pushed to nationalize the college student loan market. Like Mr. Stark, he’s from California.

• Barney Frank of Massachusetts, class of 1980 and chief protector of Fannie Mae, wrote the financial reform that would make too-big-to-fail the law for the largest banks. He has also pushed the mortgage foreclosure programs that have extended the housing recession by preventing home prices from finding a bottom.

[Winstons Julia]

Did what Obama just said amount to: “I’m not interested in Boehner’s bill...anyone got anything else....no? Oh well, then...”?

[Gator113]

When Waxman talks, can he hear the echo of his own voice coming from his monster nose?

Considering his ‘low head position’ in the world, and having nostrils that could suck the chrome off of a 1952 Buik, I’ll bet he stays away from parties where chili and beer are served.