"No one ever accused Waxman of having a light touch"

Damon W. Root | January 5, 2011

The Cato Institute’s Walter Olson celebrates the changing of the guard at the House Energy and Commerce Committee:

While others wish the new Congress well today on its swearing-in, I plan to light a 100-watt incandescent bulb and hoist a caffeinated alcoholic beverage in honor of a different milestone: starting today, the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee will no longer be under the control of Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).

Some lawmakers can talk a decent game about lean ‘n’ smart regulation, but no one ever accused Waxman of having a light touch. (The 900-page Waxman-Markey environmental bill, mercifully killed by the Senate, included provisions letting Washington rewrite local building codes.) He’s known for aggressive micromanagement even of agencies run by putative allies: his staff has repeatedly twisted the ears of Obamanaut appointees to complain that their approach to regulation is too moderate and gradual. More than any other lawmaker on the Hill, he’s stood in the way of any meaningful reform of the 2008 CPSIA law, which piles impractical burdens on small makers of children’s products, thrift stores, bicycles and others.

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FCC|1.5.11 @ 5:48PM|#

*snapping rubber glove*

Light touch, indeed!

Old Mexican|1.5.11 @ 5:53PM|#

starting today, the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee will no longer be under the control of Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)

You mean, the mole is out?

http://uglydemocrats.com/democ.....ry-Waxman/

Mike Laursen|1.5.11 @ 11:53PM|#

Yikes. The enhancement wasn't really needed.

|1.5.11 @ 5:58PM|#

Any day Waxman loses some power is a good day indeed. God, is he fucking ugly. He could give the hunchback of Notre Dame a run for his money.

Nancy Pelosi|1.5.11 @ 6:18PM|#

Are you serious? I'd hit that!

|1.5.11 @ 6:00PM|#

"No one ever accused Waxman of having a light schnoz"

mr simple|1.5.11 @ 6:11PM|#

Hah! Rep. Weiner's name is Weiner. What a douche.

Fuck off|1.5.11 @ 6:27PM|#

heller

Wind Rider|1.5.11 @ 6:27PM|#

Henry Waxman is the most odious prig amongst some pretty odious prigs within the DC beltway. He's the ultimate nanny-statish poster boy, all sound bite bluster without a sliver of actual intelligence. He wasn't so much elected from his district, Hollywood, as detailed out for his buffoonish antics from central casting, filling the call out for "over the top moronic wind bag politician". He's probably still hoping for his People's choice award for best supporting shrill shill in a governmental horror flick genre.

Wind Rider|1.5.11 @ 6:34PM|#

But, of course, don't get me wrong here - I fervently wish to one day open my browser to read about how Hank went on a ski vacation and successfully managed to complete a classic Bono/Kennedy-esque downhill into a tree move, with the last thing crossing his pea-sized brain being his garish pug nose and Lennon style eyeglasses, on the way to the back of his vacant cranium.

|1.5.11 @ 6:48PM|#

"Henry Waxman was killed today while attempting a helicopter/daffy combo off a mogul on a black diamond, striking a tree and driving his colossal nasal bones through his brain much like George C. Scott, as John Rainbird, did to someone in Firestarter. Witnesses cheered."

_|1.5.11 @ 7:02PM|#

C-

|1.5.11 @ 7:12PM|#

You are so pathetic, anonypussy. I love it.

_|1.5.11 @ 7:32PM|#

D+

cynical|1.5.11 @ 6:29PM|#

Great! Man was a horrible monster. And on the inside too.

Rep. Cosmo Kramer (G-NY)|1.5.11 @ 6:36PM|#

Look, I know what's going on here, the oink, oink. Look here you little quack, there was a half man, half pig holed up in that committee, there. Now where is he?! Where is he?! You know what I mean - pork, sausage, A-deek-a-deek-a-deek th-th-th-that's all folks.

Wind Rider|1.5.11 @ 7:02PM|#

I think one thing that CAN be said is that Waxman probably doesn't fuck sheep. Hey, even sheep have standards, ya know.

_|1.5.11 @ 7:11PM|#

That's really funny.

What about dead sheep?|1.5.11 @ 8:31PM|#

|1.5.11 @ 7:13PM|#

"...his staff has repeatedly twisted the ears of Obamanaut appointees..."

Has "Obamanaut" been trademarked? I really like that...

I've been using "Obamalama-ding-dong" personally, but I like Obamanaut even better!

|1.5.11 @ 7:25PM|#

Obamarrhoids or nothing at all.

Wind Rider|1.5.11 @ 7:42PM|#

Does make "Skippy" (my fave) kinda tame sounding.

Ergot|1.5.11 @ 8:12PM|#

Anybody ever see Waxman in "Bigger, Stronger, Faster"? Hilarious.

|1.5.11 @ 9:08PM|#

The evil moleman from Planet X.

BoscoH|1.6.11 @ 12:14AM|#

In the immortal words of Keisuke Miyagi, "Wax Off."

Douglas Fletcher|1.6.11 @ 6:48AM|#

I think there should be an agency to regulate without mercy the nostril size of short bald people.

|1.6.11 @ 10:00AM|#

You can say that again.

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