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Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« on: January 30, 2014, 10:59:10 AM »
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Rep. Waxman, key ObamaCare architect, to retire after 20 terms in office

Longtime Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman announced Thursday he will not seek reelection in the fall, becoming the latest architect of the Affordable Care Act to announce his retirement.

"After 40 years in Congress, it's time for someone else to have the chance to make his or her mark," the California congressman said in a statement.

Waxman will have served 20 terms in Congress by the time of his retirement. As prior chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he was instrumental in the drafting of ObamaCare in 2009.
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Forty ****ing years.

Good riddance, pig man.
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2014, 11:03:12 AM »
Glad to hear it.   We need term limits on these career politicians.

 
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2014, 11:12:37 AM »
he's in a dem safe district.  Expect more of the same from his replacement.
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2014, 11:25:28 AM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on January 30, 2014, 11:12:37 AM
he's in a dem safe district.  Expect more of the same from his replacement.

Have to wonder if he was worried about being primaried.
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2014, 11:26:35 AM »
Half way there, Henry.  Now go die in a fire.  :fuelfire:
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2014, 11:57:02 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on January 30, 2014, 11:26:35 AM
Half way there, Henry.  Now go die in a fire.  :fuelfire:

I won't go quite that far in wishing pigman a weenie roast with him being the fuel, but I do hope that somehow, some way, Obamacare comes up to bite him and his staffers squarely in the ass.

Maybe some kind of preexisting condition -- like being a shitstick, for example.

He does suffer from terminal fugly. I think that's an incurable disease all by itself.

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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2014, 12:07:10 PM »
Ol' Pignose. He's been rooting in the government trough 38 years to long.
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2014, 12:38:28 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on January 30, 2014, 11:57:02 AM
I won't go quite that far in wishing pigman a weenie roast with him being the fuel, but I do hope that somehow, some way, Obamacare comes up to bite him and his staffers squarely in the ass.



I appreciate the desire to be gracious and magnanimous, and let him fade quietly into - long overdue - obscurity. I really do.

Perhaps it's just my hot Scots blood getting the better of me, but after this man has spent 40 years hamstringing my country - along with his party cohorts and the Vichy Republican collaborators - and setting the people of this country at each other's throats, poised to kick off a second civil war as it were, I have a more difficult time being forgiving.  Probably a weakness on my part, but there it is.
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2014, 02:11:29 PM »
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I appreciate the desire to be gracious and magnanimous, and let him fade quietly into - long overdue - obscurity. I really do.

Perhaps it's just my hot Scots blood getting the better of me, but after this man has spent 40 years hamstringing my country - along with his party cohorts and the Vichy Republican collaborators - and setting the people of this country at each other's throats, poised to kick off a second civil war as it were, I have a more difficult time being forgiving.  Probably a weakness on my part, but there it is.

I think it has less with being gracious and magnanimous and more with not wanting to communicate any kind of wish for physical, violent harm to a sitting Congressman.

You know - the NSA an' all...  :tinfoil:   :II:

Once that mother ****er hits the streets, though, it's open season -- so to speak -- on his ass.   :-)
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2014, 02:12:49 PM »
Good riddance, ya bat-faced little piece of shit.
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2014, 02:23:13 PM »
Quote from: Dori on January 30, 2014, 11:03:12 AM
Glad to hear it.   We need term limits on these career politicians.

 

I'm kind of wishy-washy on term limits.  If we are going to term-limit anything, it should be committee chairmanships.  That is part of the reason these clowns of both parties stick around so long, just so they can get the plum committee oversight jobs.  That needs to be fixed, IMHO.
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2014, 02:52:45 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on January 30, 2014, 02:11:29 PM
I think it has less with being gracious and magnanimous and more with not wanting to communicate any kind of wish for physical, violent harm to a sitting Congressman.

You know - the NSA an' all...  :tinfoil:   :II:

Once that mother ****er hits the streets, though, it's open season -- so to speak -- on his ass.   :-)


I just hoped he'd die in a fire.  I didn't say a word about who would - if anybody - would be the one with the matches.
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« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2014, 03:30:38 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on January 30, 2014, 02:52:45 PM
I just hoped he'd die in a fire.  I didn't say a word about who would - if anybody - would be the one with the matches.

Yeah, I know. Prolly just me projecting a li'l bit.   :whistling: 
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« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2014, 08:00:36 PM »
just what this Country needs.  Another whore in public office...

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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2014, 09:03:00 PM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on January 30, 2014, 08:00:36 PM
just what this Country needs.  Another whore in public office...

Sandra Fluke Mulls Run for Henry Waxman's Seat
Another DUmmy idol.  She'll get as far as Cindy Sheehan, which is nowhere.
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2014, 09:53:42 PM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on January 30, 2014, 08:00:36 PM
just what this Country needs.  Another whore in public office...

Sandra Fluke Mulls Run for Henry Waxman's Seat

I expect there's somebody in the local Dem machinery who has been waiting his or her turn and/or reward 'waaaay too long to let some unknown quantity like her to butt in line.
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2014, 10:52:35 PM »
Ain't guana say what I hope happens to you, but sure glad you're guana be gone!
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2014, 04:24:35 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on January 30, 2014, 09:53:42 PM
I expect there's somebody in the local Dem machinery who has been waiting his or her turn and/or reward 'waaaay too long to let some unknown quantity like her to butt in line.

I'm sure Hillary thought the same thing when Obama came out of nowhere to take her presidency.
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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2014, 09:40:53 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on January 31, 2014, 04:24:35 AM
I'm sure Hillary thought the same thing when Obama came out of nowhere to take her presidency.

...And those wounds remain unhealed.

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It's a somewhat different case than a state or district election though, the national election comes down to coalition and yes, even popular vote, dynamics, while at the state or district level the party has much more of an alignment of interests and players.  I expect Waxie will have a lot of say in who gets his seat, I have no idea if she is on his list or not...they can use her to beat that 'War on women' drum, but whether that matters a great deal in his district or not, I don't know.
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2014, 10:33:20 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on January 30, 2014, 09:03:00 PM
Another DUmmy idol.  She'll get as far as Cindy Sheehan, which is nowhere.

Or maybe as well as Steve Dawes.
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« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2014, 10:36:28 AM »
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Or maybe as well as Steve Dawes.
She should stock up on mini tacos
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Re: Waxman (D-CA) to retire after 20 terms in office
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2014, 10:37:59 AM »
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She should stock up on mini tacos

I thought she'd testified that she'd cornered the market on fish tacos some time ago? :confused:
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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2014, 11:07:51 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on January 31, 2014, 10:37:59 AM
I thought she'd testified that she'd cornered the market on fish tacos some time ago? :confused:
Just the very large fish tacos...not the mini tacos.
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