Swamp Queen Maxine Waters makes taxpayers’ lives hell
Calling the civility police. Oh, never mind. It’s an uncivil corruptocrat with a “D” after her name. Go ahead, progs, and look the other way.
Via the LA Times:
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) came out swinging against Republicans in Congress on Saturday as she addressed the unemployed during a forum in Inglewood.
The event occurred a day after new statistics were released showing that California’s jobless rate last month went up to 12%, from 11.8%. California now has the second-highest rate of unemployment in the nation, trailing only Nevada at 12.9%, and its jobless rate is well above the U.S. average of 9.1%.
Waters vowed to push Congress to focus on creating more jobs. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” said Waters. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to hell.”
More than 1,000 people attended “Kitchen Table Summit,” which was designed to give the jobless an opportunity to vent to elected officials and share their struggles about finding a job.
Say, what’s the latest on the Swamp Queen’s stalled ethics trial?
It’s been punted to an outside counsel:
The House ethics committee is poised to pay a half-million dollars by year’s end to resolve the mess that remains of its three-year probe of Rep. Maxine Waters.
An outside counsel and private law firm will sort out how to handle the most substantive case on the committee’s plate this session, as the panel tackles more modest matters. Waters, a powerful California Democrat, and a former senior staffer on the committee have separately questioned the integrity of the panel’s investigation.
…Waters’s scheduled ethics trial in November 2010 was postponed amid the disputes. Both the staff director and the two investigators left the committee, with the case unresolved.
The new outside review of the Waters case is already underway and being led by respected defense lawyer Billy Martin. It aims to determine whether the committee so tainted the investigation that it must drop the charges. If Martin finds the case can proceed, and the ethics committee agrees, he and associates at his firm of Dorsey & Whitney would lead the revived probe.
When the committee’s new staff director, Dan Schwager, arrived in May he immediately reviewed the handling of the Waters case. In a private meeting the week of June 28, the committee agreed with Schwager’s proposal that the panel should hire outside counsel. Chief among the reasons was a lack of public trust in the process and Waters’s accusations that the committee had broken its own rules. Schwager, known as an even-handed counsel to the Senate ethics committee, has been well-received by committee members.
The committee announced Martin’s hiring July 20, and acknowledged that its conduct was the subject of “serious allegations.”
“The outside counsel’s review will . . . help assure all respondents and the entire House community of the integrity of the committee’s process for all matters,” the statement said.
Under his contract, Martin needs committee approval to release any information about the Waters probe and finish his initial review by Jan. 2.
So what, besides cronyism of color, do Water and her Congressional Black Caucus have in mind to reduce dismal job numbers for unemployed black Americans?
The Big Labor infrastructure bank slush fund (which I’ve repeatedly dissected here here and here):
“We’re doing a lot on job creation in our community,” said Waters. “For example, the congressional black caucus has come up with 40 pieces of legislation to deal with various aspects of creating jobs. We support an infrastructure bank that the president is alluding to.”
As usual, the CBC has left vague threats of creating civil disorder hanging out there:
WATERS: The only thing that I think the President should be aware of is people want him to fight. They said, don’t back down from the Tea Party. Don’t let them have their way.
EDWARDS: Waters says several caucus bills targeting the black unemployment rate are stuck in the Republican-controlled House. Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon, says marches may not be the answer this time, but something has to give.
Representative JOHN LEWIS: As representatives of people, we have a moral obligation to stand up, to speak up, to speak out and do what I call get in the way. Sometimes, you have to make some noise. You have to disturb the order of things.
Sounds like a social-justice endorsement for more flash mobs.
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Hey Ma, I’ve an appointment with the new Doc. He says he’ll be dilated to meet me. Do I have to wear clean underwear?
Latrine Waters: Bad to drink, bad to elect.
And all this time I thought Nasty PelNazi was the Sorriest Excuse for a Human Being in Congress. Sigh, I guess I’ll have to update my files.
Wow, really? I always kind of liked Redondo Beach. Can’t believe this idiot is their rep in Congress.
She doesn’t have any logic. Like most liberals, she just antagonizes without any real discussion. It is well beyond her capabilities.
It’s okay Maxine. People talk that way when they are getting their butts kicked all over the block by their opponent.
Cheers to you “DumbMaxine”
So I’ll meet ‘er later on
In the place where she is gone— 75
Where it’s always double taxes — Whitey’s green;
She’ll be squattin’ on the coals
Givin’ stink to poor damned souls,
An’ I’ll get a swig in Hell from DumbMaxine!
(sorry Rudyard…)
Hey, ILoveMyPimplyButt - Right here, right now, define exactly what you know about the Tea Party.
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Exactly what I figured..you are know nothing.
Hi FirstSkirt,
Here’s what I know about the tea party – they are a bunch of whites with some deep insecurities.
They never have been comfortable with who they are, so they use religion and republican politics to bash on smart people, people of color, Europe – you know, everything that’s not from texas.
The tea party is just a group of bigots.
huh. Your list is getting longer. Not long ago it was Mississippi, or was it Kentucky? Or was it both?
And why did you write ‘Europe’–why didn’t you write ‘Africa’? I’ve been to both–have you?
And, by extension, the CBC since they supported his failed policies and legislation.
Co-Sorriest Excuse for a Human Being in Congress. Equal standing, equal billing.
Wow. ILoveBeingaLibtard has OD’d on the presidentPresent’s Kool-Aid.
ILoveMyJenkem said:
“President Toonces is awesome!”
First Skirt
Ilovemycountry would believe that down is up and up is down if the HuffPo, thinkprogress, moveon, media matters, or the KOS wrote it on their blog.
IlovemyGIJoeactionfigure said:
Please provide evidence for your so-called “knowledge.” Better yet, how about checking these pictures out. Kind of makes you look stupid, no?
But then again, you do that well on your own. But I digress. Here’s your second screed:
Really? Sorry, but I reject your premise that we’re nothing but a bunch of ill-educated people of pallor from a former Republic. Try again.
Besides, I can easily say that Democrat voters are a bunch of dope-smoking crack ‘hos with multiple illegitimate children from different sperm donors who spend their welfare money on hair extensions and flat screen TVs. But that would be too close to the truth, no?
Finally, here’s your last futile attempt at making an argument:
Now we’re getting to the heart of your hatred. Can you say “projection?”
Speaking as a gay conservative, I can easily point out that I feel more at home at a Tea Party rally than I do as a conservative at my local gay bar. Who’s the bigot now?
Match, set, game. You lose. We have nice parting gifts for you.
And a bit of advice: never let your mouth write a check that your butt can’t cash. Especially when you deal with me.
Regards,
Peter H.