Well isn't that a pickle

[some-day-soling.livejournal.com]

Well, I found this interesting and thought I should share.

Canceled: Hearing That Would Have Grilled CEOs on Health Care

Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has canceled a hearing intended to grill CEOs who took a charge against profits because of the health care reform bill.

The cancellation came after they realized what everyone already knew - that the companies were required to do what they did because of accounting rules. Waxman and others had reacted with outrage and accused the companies of doing it - in essence, to make health care reform look bad.

And this from Boehner:

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, responded to the cancelation saying, "House Democrats canceled this hearing because they don’t want to give America's employers a forum to tell the public how President Obama’s new health care law is already hurting our economy and hampering job creation."

"Chairman Waxman thought he could intimidate businesses into keeping quiet about this new job-killing health care law, but when they called his bluff by continuing to speak out, he chose to pull the plug," Boehner said in a statement.

Which about sums up my thoughts.

Comments

[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

I see it two ways: Boehner's way, and also the perspective that this witch-hunt should never have happened in the first place and in that light I am glad it was canceled because these companies can ill-afford the expense of these show-trials, both financially and in terms of negative publicity (because when the game is rigged against you, well...).

[some-day-soling.livejournal.com]

I feel it shouldn't have happened in the first place as well. But somehow I feel that this cancellation is part of the rigging. They've already taken the negative publicity and now have had the opportunity to defend themselves, even if it was in a rigged clown court, taken away.

Although, I think they've come away from all this in much better light then was planned by the allegations. But that doesn't change the fact or at least seeming fact that Dems canceled because they were hoping the allegations would shut the companies up and they wouldn't respond, wouldn't show up, and could be used as punching bags.