3M, John Deere, ATT, Verizon, and Caterpillar are only the first to report how much the Health Care Bill will cost them this quarter…and the President is fuming (he thinks everything in life is purely political).

Representative Henry Waxman (CA), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, demanded that the CEO’s of ATT, Verizon, Caterpillar, and Deere provide evidence to support said losses related to the new health-care law. It was rumored that he screamed (pure scuttlebutt, of course), “we have an analysis that proves the Health Care Bill will save companies money…how dare they incur losses.”

The American Spectator reported…

“Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don’t understand a thing about business, and that includes the President,” says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. “My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn’t understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn’t know what was in the bill.”

So what’s on the menu today for those of us who opposed the Health Care Bill…more delicious irony?