Swamp Queen update: Hey, how’s that Maxine Waters ethics trial going?
It’s not going anywhere.
It hasn’t been going anywhere since April, when I last reported on stonewalling in the case.
Flashback:
Confirmed: “Drain the swamp” is Washington-speak for “Let it fester.” While House ethics watchdogs dither, it’s shady business as usual for ethics scandal-plagued Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters.
Last summer, the House Ethics Committee charged the entrenched California congresswoman with three violations related to her wheeling and dealing on behalf of minority-owned OneUnited Bank in Los Angeles. The panel accused Waters of bringing discredit to the House for using her influence to seek and secure taxpayer-subsidized special favors for the failing financial institution.
Eight months have passed since the House ethics panel charged Waters. But to date, there has been no action. No trial. No consequences.
Investor’s Business Daily follows up this week with the latest obstructionism by Democrat guardians for Maxine Waters — and aptly notes that these foxes stationed in front of the House ethics henhouse are the same ones Dems want to put in charge of a Weinergate probe.
Super:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has called for an ethics investigation of Rep. Anthony Weiner for possibly misusing official resources. But what about the probe of Rep. Maxine Waters for abusing her power?
The ethics trial of Waters, accused of swinging millions in federal bailout cash to her husband’s ailing bank, was set to begin last November.
But the Democrat leadership has delayed Waters’ trial by blocking subpoenas and firing the lead lawyer working on the two-year investigation. Also, the ranking Democrat on the House Ethics panel reportedly is holding up the hiring of a new staff director.
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Back burner, again.
Leather Head will be there long after that wig has dried up and fallen off. Meahwhile, The Repubs that should be raising hell about this are silent.
No modern day politician has the guts to expell one of their own, much less a minority member of congress. Rangel?
You can take the queen out of the swamp, but you can’t take the swamp out of the queen.
That they aren’t is telling.
It becomes a sobering thought when politicians learn that character matters and that they never bothered to cultivate it. Lying is what they do best and lying is their first reaction to trouble. I expect to see a lot more skeletons being released from political closets.
Her or Weiner aren’t going anywhere.Pelosi is as an accomplished liar as Obama.Neither one cares less if they are called on it,which rarely happens.The dems can’t afford to lose anyone so they put on the hang em high face in public but do nothing until enough time passes and it’s forgotten.
I’d wait until August 2012. PAYBACK!
So actual crooked politics is ok, but it’s the “eew” factor of Weinergate taht puts a crease in Pelosi’s botox?
Spotted Owl
Snail Darter
Humpback Whale
Black Politicians
Bald Eagle
Harp Seals
Giant Pandas
That’s like an outhouse complaining about the smell or too many flies!
GOP political reformers
Maxine Waters…another disgusting piece of horsemanure. Ewwwww!! That picture of her looks like she just got tweeted by weiner!
This is why SanFranNan referred “Weinergate” to the ethics committee. Both Waters and Weiner will probably have died of old age before anything will ever happen to them in that committee.
What’s this? A message from Anthony?
(o.O)
Linda Sanchez D-CA, ranking democrap on the House Ethics Committee is quite the fireball. I’m sure she’ll move this right up on the calendar, right after they settle the issue of which bottle water should be used during committee meetings…..
All you need to know about Maxine Waters is right here:
Hey Black Community, does Maxine Swampwaters represent you? When will you renounce these self-serving scumbags?
Is this the ethics committee list?
If so, time to send some correspondence.
There are 5 Dems and 5 Repubs.
None from my state but heck there’s 2 Repubs from Texas! Isn’t Max from Houston?
She’s a scumbaguette?
#10 On June 9th, 2011 at 2:17 pm, Hangfire said:
Maybe you did not intend it to be so, but the broadness of the brush is very offensive.
When they stop bringing home the pork to refill the government trough from which many in their districts feed. Her supporters are self-serving themselves. Which is why scum like her are easily re-elected time and again.
My intentions were obvious to the most casual observer.
RULE OF THUMB: Black Democrats are all crooks/morons, but if they commit crimes you’re a racist.
#22 On June 9th, 2011 at 2:41 pm, Hangfire said:
I am stupid, what exactly were your intentions?
The only answer, and the answer to all of what ails america (and other countries as well), is to reduce the size of government. If government is not reduced, it will continue to behave like a combination representing a strung out meth addict and a nationwide serial rapist.
Actually, regardless of its size, government will cheat and steal to get what it wants, but the smaller it is, the less it will impact you.
Getting upset at government officials who exhibit poor behaviour/ethics as if you anticipated anything else to occur, is eqivalent to leaving your home’s front door open and then being suprised and upset when you return from work to find that all your possessions have been taken and your structure has been vandalized.
You government is bending you over and having their way with you. Instead of begging them to at least wear protection, grab your nearest weapon, turn around violently, and slug the hell out of the perp.
Remember, an always compliant victim is a repeat victim.
You are not stupid, Carthaginian.
Why even have an ethics committee when the worst that ever seems to come of it is a reading of a reprimand in the House Chamber…
Could you imagine trying that with your children? I am just certain that reading a reprimand of whatever one of my boys did in front of his other 3 brothers and his friends would really shame him into not doing it again…./sarc
In order to give the false impression that Congress will face consequences for their wrongdoings.
Me thinks that the Bald Eagle belongs at the top and the subject of this conversation belongs somewhere below a a snail. (Except West & Cain of course.)
O/T Herman Cain will be on O’Really tonight. Maybe now the polls will start including him.
O/T, but it looks like Gingrich may be ought…his campaign staff just resigned in masse
that should be out…oops
Whoa! West and Cain are statesmen, not politicians. Also they are black, not Black.
Gladz – Maxine is a Kalifor-nacator. 35th distric. You are thinking about Sheila Jackson-Lee.
Fist Pump !
And Maxine should be so lucky as to get a tweet from Weiner.
GAAH!!! That picture again! Return of the Carp Mummy!
Good. Gingrich was a rino-commie-statist-beltway-insider-degenerate.
Now we have to get the other imposters to drop out – namely Romney, but based on the most recent developments, Bachman as well. Anyone whose top aide directly attacks Palin as being beauty without brains is a RINO in my books.
I would not be surprised if Gnute will leave soon, following his staff walk-out. Had not heard a word from him in the last couple of weeks re his campaign.
Well said.
I just saw that. I had a feeling something was up when I didn’t see Newt on TV at all lately. He is toast.
I didn’t prioritize the list, but perhaps I should have.
The fact that all are “protected” was the essence of the list.
I heard it was because he was shacking up at Nancy Pelosi’s San Fransisco basement dungeon.
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I was wondering if he realized that he too had twittered pics of himself to women…
Well put!!
I think ‘most’ here got your drift of the post. Sad fact you are right on all of them.
L
Hey, Newt! Look out for the strap-on! It costs extra!.
Well, that was really racist of you, doncha know!
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Thanks, mate.
I thought as much, and also realize when “others” are baiting me.
Sorry. Once a Celt, always a Celt.
Agreed keep ‘em coming.
Just a thought: It looks like HappyScrapper already got hold of Maxine with her skillet!
I prefer to think of Hangfire’s list as being of endangered species.
I’m not sure she would even feel my skillet through all that hair!! I’m sorry, but that is one ugly woman. Not nice, I know…but the truth is the truth, and we tell that here.
This black caucus carp will walk. Issa and the rest are frauds. The RINOs are running the show and are impotent as usual. Sickening. Nothing will come of these “investigations”. They are all waiting for it to blow over, as it surely will. The Republicans are useless weenies.
Regarding Liberal Blacque Politicians, as terrible it is of me to hold certain stereotypes, I believe it much worse to live the stereotype, and perpetuate it.
I feel the same way about lawyers. 95% of them give the other 5% a bad name.
Televangelists, used-Yugo salesmen, Birkenstock-wearing Volvo owners, guys that wear their ballcap backwards…….
Hmmmmmm….I don’t recall seeing a segment on Black Politician poachers on the Discovery Channel. What do the hides sell for?
Thanks babiesgrandma, I shoulda looked ole Max up before I commented.
Gingrich campaign staff retires en masse.
Weirdest campaign year ever. What the heck is going on?
Now, THAT was funny!! Some may take it wrong but it was not racist. Thought I would get ahead of that charge. You’re welcome.
The writing was on the wall and his staff members knew it. So did Newt, as he took his wife and went on a cruise instead of campaigning like the other candidates. He knew he was pretty much done. NO ONE LIKED HIM. Well, maybe Hannity, but no one else.
Marlon Perkins: “Just as the female Democrat protects her district, so does Mutual of Omaha protect you and your family.”
Yeah, why you gotta be picking on Pandas for crying out loud?!
Jim Fowler: Time to change your colostomy bag Marlin.
You know who doesn’t want Weiner to resign? SuperMax, whose old fashioned kind of corruption gets lost in the glitter of sexting and other peccadilloes.
what was ‘the word’ again, Nancy? You know; the safe word?
Fahrvergnügen!
Well, it’s pretty obvious there has not been, nor will there ever be, a “draining of the swamp” by either Dems or Repubs. We are stuck like a bug on a cupcake to the Maxine’s, the Weiners, and the Rangels who collectively have what, 100 terms in Congress? (sigh).
Pretty good news about Newt, though.
If she got a parking ticket, she would have been punished by now.
But wait, she’s a leftist who is in a government position of power.
The only way to drain the swamp is to replace them all and add term limits…which I am not going to hold my breath on.
Hey, Truesoldier #68: IF ONLY.
I have been talking about term limits for 20 years…but, nobody’s listening to me, heh. At Tea Party Rallies, lots of potential candidates TALK about term limits…but,hey, they’re only kidding. A pox on all current politicians for allowing this Congress and this administration for driving our nation over a Grand Canyon cliff.
No one is happier over the Weiner circus than John Edwards and others like ole Maxine.
As long as a black congressperson remains to look and act even partially black, and as long as Obama does the same, all the rest of us(other than the above) will be known as racists.
..and break ya off somethin’ soon
i gotta get my props
cops
come and try to snatch my crops
these pigs wanna blow my house down…
It’s pretty pathetic, but lets face it that’s mostly true. Add race baiting liars to the above like the congressman who swore he was spat on and called N-word prior to healthcare vote–except nobody else heard or recorded it. There are also a pretty fair number of white imbeciles in congress like one of my esteemed senators–Babs Boxer who is about as sharp as a marble! Also as I recall Sen. Feinstein arranged some sweetheart deals for her husband’s business.
On June 9th, 2011 at 2:24 pm, happyscrapper said:
Did Wiener also Tweet her a photo of his package?
Dateline: June 9, 2032.
Maxine Waters’ trial in the House of Representatives has been formally scheduled to be held at the earliest available opportunity.
On June 9th, 2011 at 2:43 pm, J-Bone said:
All of them? Evidence? I have no fondness for Democrats in general, but this seems a bit strong.
On June 9th, 2011 at 3:43 pm, Hangfire said:
Great one, Hangfire!
On June 9th, 2011 at 5:05 pm, Truesoldier said:
On June 9th, 2011 at 4:47 pm, FirstSkirt said:
Just tell them all that they will NOT be receiving their paychecks this term until they clean up their mess.
Please FirstSkirt, we need to keep our Grand Canyon tidy. It brings in lots of tourists and revenue. Plus, it really is Grand!
As an alternative, I suggest we leave the politicians and administration on the deck of an oil rig in the Gulf, to prevent them from pushing the Nation off a Grand Canyon Cliff.
They could all get very chummy and become perfectly harmless.
UHM News flash that’s why they want to open ethics investigation on Weiner it will simply fade into oblivion!
Here we see the quality of the Democrat party, Waters, Rangel, Weiner, all sterling democrats!
Too bad they don’t want to preserve the country using the same amount of energy as they want to maintain the swamp and preserve their careers.
Maxine who? OH, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember now, another one of those liberal politicians who consider it a job fringe benefit to rip off taxpayers to feather their own nests with all kinds of unearned creature comforts and never get hammered for it because they scream racism, sexism, or point their fingers at everyone else etc. etc. ad naseum.
The left side of America will wake up right after the last check from the giverment doesn’t show up, that will be right after the giverment runs out of borrowed money.
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what the hell are the spineless Repukians doing besides nothing?
Can’t the Republicans do anything? And if they can, why aren’t they? No one should be able to block justice like this. Sigh.
Corrupt, incompetent demagogues like Waters will never be gotten rid of until the odious practice of racial gerrymandering is ended. As Dubya signed a 25-year extension of the LBJ-era act allowing it in 2006, that may be a good while.
Damn Michelle, do you have to post her picture on top of everything else? Please. I’ve seen better looking asses on baboons at the zoo. That’s where she belongs anyway.
There is a small matter with regard to the proper English grammar here. “It’s” is always a contraction of “it is,” not a possessive of “it.” To write that, you would say “its,” not “it’s.”
If I was a democratic congressman I would do whatever I wanted without worrying about the consequences, because most democrats come from “yellow dog’ democratic districts and get re-elected no matter what.
We conservatives feel your pain, AmericanGirl30 @#82