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Henry Wax Man, Man of Wax: as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, he has basically subpeonaed the entire Bush administration and asked them why they all suck so much. Henry Waxman rules! And now he will be taking his brand of California liberal ass-kickery to the Energy and Commerce Committee, where he just ousted the tragic Detroit toady John Dingell as chairman.
Nobody likes Detroit these days, or the auto industry, or cars. THUS the old Michigander John Dingell, who has run the Energy Committee since Henry Waxman was too young to grow that pervy mustache of his, must now step aside.
Waxman won the chairmanship vote by a 137 to 122, so it’s not like Dingell got totally creamed on this one, but it does suggest the environmentalists and their Communist dictator Nancy Pelosi are going to have more power in the Obama era.
Henry Waxman is one of the most lovably peculiar-looking members of the House and seems like he can be an absolutely ruthless bastard in the name of Justice, so huzzah.
Longtime Head of House Energy Panel Is Ousted [New York Times]
That’s not a bald head - that’s a solar powered congressional oversight rocket launcher.
It’s not right that they’re doing this to John Dingell. He’s been in charge of controlling automobile emissions since Ford.
Not Gerald. I mean Henry.
The librul commies will Californicate the auto industry.
Amen…but Waxman’s nose still scares me…..
Looks like Prius with plates “SF LBRL” pulled up and whacked Dingleberry. Good riddance.
dolphins and rainbows versus rustbelt malaise! hurray! seriously, dingell’s corrupt and calcified ass has been in the way for too fucking long now.
Daniel Adam Smith: I’ve always thought he looks like a pig in a children’s book. Not scary, just sort of ugly/cute.
There’s the last nail in GM’s coffin. As Cousin Eddie said in Vegas Vacation, “I haven’t seen a beating this bad since I put a banana down my pants and turned the monkey loose.”
Mister Potatohead
Waxman plucked out a stinky Dingell-berry.
I’m sure yesterday’s little spectacle of the Big Three CEOs flying in on their corporate jets to beg for Federal money didn’t affect today’s vote at all. Come back on the Greyhound, jackanapeses.
Daniel Adam Smith: It isn’t the nose - it is the mustache. The Mustache of Justice!
Dogless Liberal….Spot on…
He also looks a little like that King Crimson album cover with the close-up of the face….
I think you have use scissors fro dingellberries…less painful…
Bring your flatbeds…. time to start selling Detroit for scrap.
BATBOY SPOTTED CHAIRING U.S. DEPARTMENT!
I do NOT want to be on Facebook when all my Democrat friends find out about this. Can’t say I’m that surprised, though.
What was that about someone’s Dingell getting totally creamed?
Joe Lieberman doesn’t offend the delicate sensibilities of Congress, but John Dingell does? At least this will actually more us towards fixing global warming, dragging Detroit kicking and screaming into a profitable business model of fuel efficient cars, and energy reforms. Think of all the wind power we can harness just from an exhale out of one of Waxman’s nostrils.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
now that Dingell is officially irrelevant, can we have Lynn Rivers back? Please?
I am come from LA, and Waxman is one of my ilk for whom I would vote if I lived in Malibu. Out here, we are proud of him. I hope he can get us that giant solar panel we was promised.
Das right we gunna rool everyding. Go Caleeforneea.
I’m pulling what’s left of my money out of the market and investing in the Somali pirates. At least they can get things done.
Dingell has done many good things during his centuries in congress. But continuing to leg-hump the Big 3, while they flew corporate jets to hearings to beg for more money, may have been just a smidge tone-deaf… Common malady when one is in his 90’s or whatevs.
space stout: Jeezum, you reminded me of the tragic packing job that Engler did after the 2000 census. The loss of Rivers in the Congress was tragic. Losing her to Dingellberry was a great loss. That was just one more scummy thing that Engler did while governor.
Why didn’t the people of Michigan tar and feather him? That’s not still against the law, is it?
clover: Good for you. Everyone else not rich in Los Angeles, hates Henry Waxman.
Miller:
My thought, as well. Dingell should have come out in support of McCain.
On the upside, there will be new mileage and emission standards.
he sort of looks like Sylvester McMonkey McBean
john dingelberry is not so bad except he’s an old school michigan democrat who was on the automaker’s paycheck and helped to make the present situation where the automakers no longer have paychecks.
waxman on the other hand is one of those people who actually looks better when political cartoonist draw him than he does in real life.
Congratulations Rep. Waxman. I’ll always remember that it was your incendiary report, “The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs” that made me fall in love with you.
I was trying to see if I could find a pic of Waxy’s wife. Cuz one has to wonder what kind of person sees him nekkid.
But then I came across a pic of Elizabeth Kucinich and got all distracted…wait, what?
Waxman looks like a thumb.
problemwithcaring: I hate him for that, too. But Measure R passed and someday soon they might actually extend the purple line to the sea, or at least to Westwood.
he-he
Waxman creamed the Dingle
I KAN HAZ CAFE STANDARDS PLZ
ala UPS: So what can bald do for you?
Who stole my cheese?
Doglessliberal: I think he looks like the “normal” people in the Twilight Zone’s ‘Eye of the Beholder’ episode.
Theodorick Of York: Argh. I said similar things. I don’t the peeps reads my stuff.
Sadnesses.
For Henry Waxman, every month is Movember.
magic titty:
Apologies!
Missed it. I bow to your originality.
That’s the problem with humor…no matter
how funny and fresh it is to you, some one
said it before.
Happinesses!
I am personally thrilled about this upset.
Yet, as I look out onto the GM Headquarters from my office here in downtown Detroit, I swear I can hear the screaming, moaning, and wailing. I half expect to see jumpers before the end of the day.
Debbie Dingell will have to kill orphans to get over this one.
Bagglio Ordonez: YES WE CAN!
This is AWESOME. Henry is a lipstickless pitbull on the pant leg of the opportunity to crush opponents with his bare bald head.
I totally forgive him his former opposition to the Westside subway. As I recall from living in LA at the time, that was not just about methane blowing the Wilshire corridor to bits, but also about the Metro’s having become an incredibly corrupt, corner-cutting, graft-obsessed mastodon stuck in a scuzzy tar pit. Or something like that.
Never have I seen a man who would benefit more from cosmetic surgery.
problemwithcaring: Details, details…
Let’s see what this full-grown Christmas elf can do.
shortsshortsshorts: i think chicago may give you a run for the money.
Waxman is my hero. I know for a fact he hasn’t gotten as far as he has on his good looks and charm alone.
I love Henry but…dude….mustache…pedosmile.
Henry’s wife is named Janet. Henry should get down on his knees every morning & thank god he didn’t have to marry a rat.
http://www.washingtonlife.com/backissues/archives/99nov/photos/ambass10.jpg
On hearing this news, polar bears everywhere breath a sigh of relief, before tearing into the guts of a helpless baby seal.
If I could grow a ’stache like that I would be a completely different man. No more Blue Oyster bar, damn
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