Tell Waxman and Stupak To "Go to Hell!"

Above, Rep. Henry Waxman.

The overreaching Democrats are overreaching again. This time Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills), the Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich), (Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations sent out letters (go here to see one of them) to the nation's health insurers demanding information on executive compensation, premium rates and a whole mountain of data by September 4.

This is nothing less than an Alinskyite tactic of intimidation and, as some has described, "a fishing expedition that smacks of McCarthyism."

Talk show host Hugh Hewitt (who is also an attorney) described it best:

This letter is a straightforward bit of bullying --an attempt by Waxman and Stupak to silence any segment of the private sector that might be inclined to fight back against the takeover of American medicine by the federal government. It is intended to make the health insurance industry fear opposing any part of the Obama-Pelosi scheme to remake American health care.

The Washington Post described the letters as follows:

They requested detailed information on the compensation packages of the companies' highest-paid employees, as well as information on the companies' boards, conferences and events they sponsored, the profitability of the individual health-care products they sell and revenues earned through government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

Most of the data is already available in public filings by these insurers.

The CEOs of each insurer should write back to Waxman and Stupak with one sentence, "Go to hell!"

These Democrats works for us, not the other way around. Each week since the election, the Democrats are acting more and more like dictators. Waxman and Stupak should pound sand.