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DF — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:33:00 +0000

In reply to The speed reader should've

I'm going to assume you're probably a troll, what with being named "Brownie" and all, but I'll entertain this anyway.

This video clip isn't disturbing at all. No one could possibly be disturbed by it, because it has no context. Here's the question that Barton asks Waxman in the clip:

"Before I asked the question of Counsel did you know that was in this bill?"

Did he know what was in the bill? Who knows? The clip was chopped so that we can't see what they were discussing. Furthermore, the reason that Waxman's response is so egregious (emphasis mine):

As Democrats push forward with a $646 billion national energy tax, Henry Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and author of the Democrats' national energy tax, has offered two startling revelations: 1. He doesn't know what is in his bill, and 2. He relies on scientists at the United Nations to help write a bill that discriminates against domestic manufacturers and domestic energy producers:

Of course Waxman does not know everything that's in a 946 page bill. First of all, it's not as if the opposition party hasn't introduced hundreds of amendments to it. And in any case, there's a hell of a lot more oversight here than there was for, say, the USA PATRIOT Act, which hardly anyone read despite the fact that it altered over 100 sections of the U.S. Code.

But Waxman's real crime here is clear: He's got the audacity to trust science. You know, the same science that brought you the automobile in the first place. Sure, you'll believe them when they tell you there's "internal combustion" and that it will provide safe and expedient transport to the nearest Stuckey's, but when they tell you that having so many of them on the road has become a problem, well.. certainly that can't be true.

And as far as discriminating against domestic manufacturers goes, give me a break. You may not have noticed, but they're on life support right now because they put all of their eggs in the SUV basket, unlike foreign manufacturers that are on the leading edge of innovation in fuel-effeciency.

What do you have against efficiency? I thought markets were perfectly efficient? And that markets were an integral aspect of freedom? And that freedom was an integral aspect of America? Why do you hate America?

Anyhow, heckuva job, Brownie.

The speed reader should've

Brownie — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:37 +0000

In reply to Makin' the Sausage: Say That Five Times, Fast

The speed reader should've read the entire bill. At least then Mr. Waxman - one of its "authors" - would've known what was in it.

Check out this video clip: http://www.gop.gov/conference-call/09/05/21/author-of-the-democrats

Disturbing!

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