The
Malibu Times reported on Congressman Henry Waxman’s recent press conference,
calling for heightened coastal protections along the Malibu shore, yet also
taking time to attack the Republicans in the House.
The press conference was in keeping
with a key theme of Waxman’s re-election campaign thus far, which is that
Republicans are to blame for partisan gridlock in Washington, D.C.
Independent
candidate Bill Bloomfield correctly identified Henry Waxman’s press conference
and findings as a “partisan document produced at taxpayer expense.”
Congressman
Henry Waxman is blaming the Republican Majority in the House for pushing an
anti-environmental agenda. Yet Waxman’s legislation has been anti-recovery, and
his actions in Congress have done nothing to improve the nation’s laws to
protect our waters and protect our rights.
Not
the Congress, but rather the Supreme Court has handed down withering judgments
faulting the Clean Water for is unwavering vagaries.
In
2006, the Rehnquist Court ruled in Rapanos v. United Statesthat Congress and the EPA failed to define
or qualify the extent that running tributaries would impede building on one’s
property.
Sackett v. EPA has permitted two home-owners in Idaho to pursue an appeal
to end an arbitrate injunction preventing them from building a home on their
own property. The Court allowed the Sacketts to sue the EPA immediately instead
of enduring fines and sanctions before having a case to sue.
To this day, Waxman still stands by the failed
“green loan guarantees program” one which has witnessed the waste of billions
of dollars in the worthless quest of green technology on the federal dole.
Nineteen federally subsidized companies have gone bankrupt, including $500
million toward Solyndra,“I’m sorry” was all that he had to say.
About the gridlock in Congress, Waxman’s continues
to charge that “Republicans are to blame.” This is
ridiculous schlock. How does Waxman justify pushing through Cap and Trade in
2009, which passed by the slimmest of margins –219-212, and at the last minute
before the floor vote, he crammed in a 300 page amendment, which no one had
time to read? Then there was Obama-WaxmanCare, a bill which faced bipartisan
opposition, which passed through reconciliation on a 216-212 vote, despite the
roaring crowds, both Democrat and Republican, which assembled on the Washington
Mall to petition the government not to pass the law?
He
has stonewalled proper investigation and mark-up of the XL Keystone Pipeline,
throwing out the empty charges of collusion between the Koch Brothers and the
Republicans in Congress. These empty charges are systemic and symptomatic of
Waxman’s hyped-up hyperpartisanship, stalling Congress, energy independence,
and economic recovery.
Waxman
attacks the wrong people for the failures of the Clean Water Act, then he
hypocritically assails the House Republicans for the very tactics which he
actively practices. His partisanship cleary imparts that he will not partner
with the opposition to get anything done. It is time for Waxman to part and let
Bloomfield take his place to part the partisan gridlock.
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