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More Embarrassment For Congressional Black Caucus After Maxine Waters Joins Rangel In Alleged Ethics Breaches
After Charlie Rangel was humiliated recently by the Congressional Ethics Panel, and faces ethics charges that included failure to disclose assets and income, nonpayment
of taxes and doing legislative favors for donors to a college center
named after him, today we learn that another democrat, prominent member of the Financial Services Committee, and the funniest Ben and Tim interrogator by a mile, Maxine Waters, is about to face an ethics trial herself, dealing a huge reputational blow to the Congressional Black Caucus, where it now appears pretty much everyone in a position of power had been allegedly abusing their privilege for years. Of course, this means the other 358 members of Congress are perfectly honest and clean. Then again, perhaps it is not a bad thing that Maxine will soon be gone from the FSA, as her repeated questioning of Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke was a farce of such moronic magnitude, that it actually made the Fed chairman look good during Q&A (we dare you to watch the clip below with a straight face). Either way, it will be amusing to watch all of Maxine's faux indignation now that she will be on the receiving end of questioning that should be at least a little smarter than her own.
More from NPR:
A second House Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters of California, could be facing an ethics trial this fall, further complicating the midterm election outlook for the party as it battles to hold onto its majority.
People familiar with the investigation, who were not authorized to be quoted about unannounced charges, say the allegations could be announced next week. The House ethics committee declined Friday to make any public statement on the matter.
Waters, 71, has been under investigation for a possible conflict of interest involving a bank that was seeking federal aid. Her husband owned stock in the bank and had served on its board.
Both Waters and Rangel are prominent members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the trials would be an embarrassment for the group. Dual ethics trials would also be a major political liability for Democrats, forcing them to defend their party's ethical conduct while trying to hold on to their House majority.
While Rangel is a former chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, Waters is a prominent member of the Financial Services Committee.
Waters came under scrutiny after former Treasury Department officials said she helped arrange a meeting between regulators and executives at Boston-based OneUnited Bank without mentioning her husband's financial ties to the institution.
Her husband, Sidney Williams, held at least $250,000 in the bank's stock and previously had served on its board. Waters' spokesman has said Williams was no longer on the board when the meeting was arranged.
Waters has said the National Bankers Association, a trade group, requested the meeting. She defended her role in assisting minority-owned banks in the midst of the nation's financial meltdown and dismissed suggestions she used her influence to steer government aid to the bank.
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she's 71 ...?
Just watched Greenspan, Bloomberg and Rendell on Meet the Press.
Bloomberg: solution to immigration is biometric ID cards for all and citizenship for current undocumented workers if they learn english and history...financial reform is a lobbyist's and lawyer's dream.
Greenspan: If house prices go down we'll get a double dip...Best thing for the economy is higher equity prices, people underestimate how important the Dow is. Just below current house price levels is a large pool of home owners who will be pushed into foreclosure if prices continue to fall.
Rendell: We'll hold the House and the Senate...the GOP are pro BP .
This comment from Greenspan is very important and is akin to President Obama making the call that stocks look cheap and should be bought. That's all you need to know folks, you are being tangentially asked to go long; 'they' will try everything humanly possible to see higher equity prices. Barring a catastrophe of some nature, this market is headed higher. Go short at your own risk; you'll probably get decimated. However, go long at your own risk, too, because a black swan event will not come with an advanced notice.
When the DOW underperforms, change the composition. AIG anyone? I have a hard time not barking insults when it is mentioned to be that the DOW is 10k. It is a distraction. Anyways, the ologopoly own the equities. How the fuck does that impact some 8$/hr family?
Shittygroup anyone?
Government Motors anyone?
The Dow is a fucking joke.
Agreed, it doesn't matter to the $8/hr family. But it is a good way to massage the psychology of the masses. I keep on hearing, ad nauseam, the "look the market is rising; hence, the economy must be improving" meme from my friends. That's all that matters to most of them and thus the DOW has to move higher. Without that there will be restlessness among the masses, which has to be avoided at all costs. That's the goal and attempts will be made to reach that goal, come hell or high water.
Riddle me this, Einstein....if what you say is true, why is the Dow 4,000 points below it's high and not at 20K or 25K?
I'll tell you why. Because even though the plan may be to pump equities, they HAVE FAILED to do so. Nobody is buying stocks. It's just a matter of time before they give up. Why? Because the bond market will MAKE THEM GIVE UP. Back to school chief. I don't make decisions based on what they're saying on CNBS.
Who said anything about they will be successful with their attempts. Of course, they will fail, eventually, because of the bond market or otherwise. All I am saying is multiple attempts will be made to take the market higher, either just to placate the masses or until their agenda has been met. When will they finally give up? Nobody knows. It could be years from now or tomorrow. Play it at your own risk. I will only join the party when there is blood on the streets - to use an overly used cliche. And there will be blood on the streets, but I can wait. I have enough patience to wait.
she is living proof that the western world is going down the toilet.
And seconded by you.
and look at the mendacity and smugness on Massa's faces....amerika has become a clownshow of biblical proportions....The funny thing is, that inept SoCal diva is on OUR SIDE!
Yea she griftin a few dollas fa sumthin on the side bbut....She KNOWS them gennemen aint up ta no gould
No punishment is too bad for the traitor that is voted into a position of RESPONSIBILITY to and by the people, and then turns and rapes said people over and over and over.
Penalty of life imprisonment at a minimum, but preferably death, for any and all that are meant to represent the people.....then turn and rape them.
No white skinned congressman or senators on the take ?. No Wall Street crimes or RICO there. No Fedor Treasury perjury ?.
Just that funny Blago fella from gangland..
Strains credulity.
It is all about whether you know the secret handshake ... and even then the stronger ruling crooks will feed on the weaker of the ruling crooks to protect themselves.... feed the sharks with a corpse or two. Wonder if they understand the concept of "chumming the water".
+100 gold bitchez/internetz/scooby snacks
Sorry to disappoint you Nikki, but the white skinned congressmen, especially the hebrew subspecies, steals larger. No self respecting whitey would stoop to steal less than millions and in any event, they would have bought off the ethics (sic) panel. Think Madoff and friends...
Unfortunately, our dear black brothers aim too low and then rely on the race card to get out of jail. Truly a sad spectacle :-)
Madoff must've pissed off the tribes. He probably got blackballed for not donating enough to "the cause".
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/Graham-MacDonald-Madoff.html
great article, thanks.
He more likely was a loose canon that was asking for too much without the leverage so they bumped him before he could hold something of real value over anyone's head and actually prove it.
ruskki, I'm not disappointed or under any delusion that fair skinned politicians are less corrupt. The visible majority are brazenly corrupt, the rest in denial of how corrupted they are by their silent acceptance.
Madoff was a cannibal and as such had to be banished.
Refering to the Jewish people as a subspecies was uncalled for. They are the farmers and we are the hand licking cows, our dark skinned brothers too. Their 2% of the population pulls all the strings of finance, justice, media, and government agencies. Nothing can be done about it as almost all are in denial that a conspiracy exists in plain site.
Google Celente and the white shoe boys..
Really impressive, Nikki, if "in plain sight" is above your writing level.
Seems to me all this ethnic commentary is inappropriate.
Bush/Obama/Pelosi/Reid/DeLay/Paulson X 2/Mozilo etc have answered to a lot of string pullers; which include the monarch of Saudi Arabia.
IMHO . . .
Apparently the Google reference wasn't "plain" enough for those in denial.
I'll make it easier for you to start. Soon to be, 3, of 9 SCOTUS judges are what religion ?.
Now let's play the same game with the FDIC, SEC, budget director (incoming and outgoing), Chief of staff, Fed chief, Fed members etc..
You could have at least read the Celente 'Soprano' bit before commenting. You must be a hella good Dr.
Sorry, poor choice of words, tone of voice does not carry well through print...being part jewish, I just like to have a little fun playing with the more earnest types.
Didn't you know? Only two black Democrats are corrupt. There's no such thing as a corrupt White Republican or anything.. . /sarcasm
Hah!
Sarcasm drips downward, so I'll pick up some and smear it on.
There is no such thing as a corrupt politician. Only a dumb electorate.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com
Vote for the same party that wrecked the economy to fix the economy in 2010!
Tea Party '10! Wooo!!!
the tea Party's alright...(i don't see anybody else standing up...Get rid of Pailin though faux...seriously)
But 6 junks later, what you said is still just about right.
Reps WILL resume cruise control into armageddon with an overlay of "bibles and flags and freedom from fags, personal responsibility, etc" just like they always do, all the while shoveling dollas to their "base".
amerikan politics is nothing but tag team rape of the amerikan elektorate and your average citizen.
Junk ME bitches....Fuck ALL republicans on Zerohedge...and Fuck ALL the Democrats on Zerohedge...FUCK UUUUUUUU ALLLLLLLLL
They're all bad.
Please see my rant on the Ron Paul and HFT / Crop Circle threads from yesterday.
Hope to see some of you at the ATM on Thursday August 12 pulling out $500.
Let it fall, or bring it down.
I see JB is sticking with the talking points memo:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/28/dems-launch-effort-to-equate-gop-with-...
"Dems launch effort to equate GOP with far right Tea Party candidates"
"The DNC will circulate a 10-point “Republican Tea Party Contract on America.” It includes a flier with the 10 points, a 30-second TV ad, and a website with supporting details that includes quotes from Republicans espousing each of the 10 points."
Nikki, you're right. They're all (less R.Paul and a few others) on the take. It is out in the open. At best, they're indifferent to us. At worst (and most often) they're openly hostile to us.
Peter Thiel is one of Ron Paul’s main advisors (read handler) and Mr. Thiel is a Bilderberger
http://www.nndb.com/people/030/000124655/I find that distressing. I don't have a rebuttal. I'm going to instead put my fingers in my ears and look the other way. Ron Paul, bitches.
All that needs done is to move the seat of government to a circus tent .
Are you from the Pittsburgh area?
Really, we have the Representatives we deserve. She's not smart enough to be an elected representative, yet there she is.
"Your CEO." Geithner - "My CEO?" To bad he didn't throw in a WTF?
And every time Tim questions her bizarre questions, she cuts him off with, "I don't have time."
Really, really, sad.
Our two minutes of hate are almost over... and thank god because my guttural scream was starting to make my throat hoarse.
As planned the two minutes are misdirected.
Geithner's "your government's decision" line was perplexing, seeing as how it is coming from the Sec of Treasury.
The guy is an operative working on others behalf (GS) from inside the government. He is so entrenched in GS corporate culture he forgets to lie and tell people who he's supposed to be working for.
It was not 'my (his) government' or 'our government'.... Its "your government".
Waters is a dufus for not even fliching at that, I however took off one of my shoes in preparation for the climax that never came.
Yes, I've mentioned this from day one on another forum.
It's bright light into his brain. He gives two shits about this country
and the people. He should be hanged for treason.
P.S. I think this has been brought to his attention. I notice recently
he tries to choke down "our country".
Her 'electorate' isn't smart enough to elect someone else.
For Maxines next moronic panel, she will attempt to link Chelsea Clinton's GS banker husband to the TARP bailout.
How that bitch became a rep is beyond me.
Obviously she represents her constituency.
...totally. And lol in the 2nd video where underwriting fees are clearly beyond her grasp
But...but...what happened to the two most needed things to improve government: 1) Women 2) Minorities
Gawd! Is it possible that corruption knows neither GENDER nor RACE?
I am SHOCKED!
I am beyond flabergasted! Doesn't Maxine know Diane Frankstein's friggin' number. Now that broad knows how to funnel gov't money to her husband!
and make the taxpayers feel like the cornholing was a favor to them.
"After Charlie Rangel was humiliated recently by the Congressional Ethics Panel." Charlie committed the breach of conduct so he humiliated himself the Congressional Ethics Panel was just the last stop on the humiliation train. Every congressman should be give an closed book ethics test proctored my Fox, CNN, and NPR and see if any of them can pass. Can you say 10%
The honorable Ms. Waters (D-CA), no doubt the pride of gangsta infested Inglewood, CA, is a true embarrassment to the state of California, the nation and the human race. The Black Caucus, being a fixture of the US Congress, is incapable of embarrassment.
Look for both the Honorable Mr. Rangel and Ms. Waters to be stripped of their House cafeteria privileges for a week as penalty for their crimes.
Again and again I will rant that these Congressional Ethnic Caucuses are illegal and discriminatory.....violating the very anti-discrimination laws the government created decades ago. The black and hispanic caucuses use these bureaucratic legislative inventions as an ethnically divisive bully pulpit. Both the subprime lending disaster and the lack of any immigration reform sanity can be directly attributed to the work of both. The members of these groups never have to defend their illegal existence because they simply go unchallenged.
These mini-governments within the government are a pox on the USA.
Maxine "run the water" Waters. There are many idiots in congress...few of them useful. I find the Black Caucus to be stacked with grifters and panhandlers sad to say. They stereotype blacks in the worst way.
Just remember, Rangle succeeded the criminal Adam Clayton Powell who led the way in personal corruption.
I have said many times that on 9/11 "they hit the wrong building".
The politicians today and the corporate elitists are a bigger threat to American Citizens than the Talibahn, N. Korea, and all the other threats combined.
The "Terrorists" would have done the American Citizen a big favor if they had actually hit the Capital, and it pains me to say that.
Odd, is it not, that the only plane that failed to get thru was the one ostensibly heading for the pile of shit commonly referred to as the capital (capital is of greek origin meaning "pile of shit infested by the most useless f*ckwads).
Two left wing Negroes are being investigated at the same time, and nobody has cried racism yet?? No marches?? Is Jesse Jackass and Al Charlatan too busy banging the staff?? This can't be.
Just give em a little time to compose their asinine indignant speeches and sound bytes. Let me speculate; hmmm.., Oh yes, some rousing dumbed down pandering rhetorical ramblings about whitey seeking to discredit the blacks after losing the white house to the super-negroe?
Something along those lines.
It's just a matter of time before they realize that Obama Joe doesn't give a shit about them either. He is a super Oreo bitch (a double stuffed one at that).
Excellent point. Its only a matter of time. Blacks have the advantage that they can cry wolf any time and the stupid sheep will give em what they want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3I-PVVowFY&feature=related
Nuff said
Beat me to it on the vid.
Arrogance, ignorance and socialist all in one neat little package. The spectacle of her attempts to disengage her brain from her tongue are pure comedy gold...LOL.
Jesus Christ!! Moose, thanks for the link.
Do any here seriously think these investigations and abuses of privilege will make any difference to the voters. They do not care. They will continue to vote for criminals. Why? The majority of the american people have become criminals themsleves. We get the government we deserve. If America really wanted change, it could get it. America wants partisanship and actually believes it is morally correct to take from one group to give to another if the "intentions" are just.
"I will vote for him anyway. He is in my party and believes what I believe in. So what if he made some mistakes or is corrupt. He's looking out for us."
Welcome to Venezuela folks. I hope you like what you have brought upon yourselves.
In many cases what you say is true. But most candidates lie , and the choices the public gets are in the pocket of one big donor or special interest group. The media spins the garbadge as hard as they can ... it's all about agendas and many of those are Anti-American. It's a Fckn mess!
Given her long tenure on the Financial Services Committee, you would have thought that Maxine Waters would demonstrate at least a modicum of financial knowledge. Maybe she is just inarticulate, but I don't think so. Makes me wonder if Maxine can even balance her own checkbook. Why is it that people can attain positions of real power and influence with absolutely no qualifications????
she's stupid. Stupid people can't be educated.
+ 7777
She got busted before? Didn't she pull a welfare scam last time.
Spot-on. Ignorance can be fixed but stupid is to the bone.
gold Nigeria!! bwahahahhaahhaahahhahahahahaha!
Maxine's got plenty of qualifications.
1. XX chromosomes
2. Black
3. Resident of a district who's LIKELY VOTERS are black, unionized government workers.
4. Dumborat Marketing Machine stands behind her.
5. Very light resource use from said Marketing Machine.
Nuff said!
+5
nobody that is smart wants those jobs...
correct! Only those with an insatiable lust for power AND wealth covet these jobs. We should never have let the bastards make a career out of fleecing the public.
"Only those with an insatiable lust for power AND wealth covet these jobs."
This is essentially the point of chapter 8 of The Road to Serfdom, Why the Worst Get on Top.
Some of the best and the brightest of the ruling class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK3rTUgoQD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjbPZAMked0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWrDqPkjK4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24UiUVnA1o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHUsRTYFAU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
And the best. Not a member of the ruling class, yet, but soon....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&feature=related
- un-fucking-believable.
. . . questioning that should be at least a little smarter than her own.
The operative term there is "should be". Wisely this was not written as "will be".
Nov should be a blood bath for incumbents - of any party..
if not ,we deserve the continued loss of our freedoms and rights and the violence that must follow.
Conservative States (AZ as an example)must lead the revolt against the massive Federal gov and it's entrenched elites - the corruption is so "in your face" that if the status quo continues violence becomes more an option for the desperate unemployed and overtaxed people.
Yes, absolutely. There will be bloodbath for incumbents in November, especially in AZ.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0728/How-did-Sharron-Angle-blow-an-11-point-lead-on-Harry-Reid-in-seven-weeks
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20010769-503544.html
Not quite: Nov should be a bloodbath for the scoundrels who voted for Obama's agenda - against the interests and wishes of the public.
Correct. The bloodbath should fall on the most guilty of our financial travesty. Can't blame Bush anymore, it's been your time at the helm for almost 2 years.
+235, and that includes both parties - Ned
http://www.morphcity.com/home/80-constitutional-sheriff-tony-demeo
icanhazcorruptpolitician
LOL Maxine "outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines [at Fannie Mae]" Waters.
(Primal Scream)
Please don't remind me again.
And now you got me thinkin' about Bawney...
"Let's roll the dice"
(Primal Scream)
(we dare you to watch the clip below with a straight face) All good as fortunately Nature always provides an exact polarity to any lower expression. Any Void carries a potential in the opposite direction. Just consider it "mean reversion" in the world of Real Neo... thwi
Moar about the tight-knit relationship between the CBC and Fannie Mae:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvG-s_Ssb0
Dear Maxine,
Blasphemy against Goldman Sachs, er,...against God is a mortal sin that must be punished. God works in mysterious ways. We do God's work.
No hard feelings. If you repent and grovel before Goldman Sachs, er,...before God, we could find a place for you in our Ethics office or our new FinReg Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.
Sincerely,
The Almighty Lord Blankfein
Razor blades in hand, I watched the first video. Seconds into the next clip I had to stop because my sanity and life were in danger.
That's what you get for trying to "socialize" the oil industry!
Jezze that woman is stupid.
God save America.
your girl in the back should be payin some fees for that big ass fro
Here's the million dollar question. Who has the most to gain in a race war, because between this crap and the Arizona thing, somebody's trying real hard to start one.
"Here's the million dollar question. Who has the most to gain in a race war, because between this crap and the Arizona thing, somebody's trying real hard to start one."
We have one brewing right here. Let's see if the other side shows.
Going to join me Thursday August 12 to pull $500 from the ATM?
Other ideas to VI's call to arms are welcome.
Time for each of us to do something.
I'll hand that to the Tea Party, it organized itself, at least the April 15th 2009 one I went to.
Dude, i already pulled waaaaay more than that in '09
"Going to join me Thursday August 12 to pull $500 from the ATM?"
Yes. DoChen, some thoughts regarding getting something organized were posted on the "crop circle" thread. We need a dedicated forum, and bulletin board. Need to track participant numbers and be able to communicate with each other. where is the incubation room.
"keep it rolling"
PS - if you have time, read through the thread. some good stuff added after you left.
My bank only lets you take out $400 per transaction. ;-(
What is the reason anyhow, to simulate a bank run?
Guess I missed a post somewhere.
Roller Bearings with dirty grease starting a fire.
#497967
- Ned
Promise to buy more physical gold- it's like giving the feds the finger (what a thrill up your leg , eh ?
The same people that have the most to gain by keeping the bottom 90% of the country fighting among themselves.
Wonder who will come to her defense and call her persecutors "racists" in the same manner she called Franklin Raines' persecutors.
Where's the investigation of the actual ruling class?
Who is number one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29JewlGsYxs&feature=related
Betcha after such exemplary questioning of Bennie the Red, Timmy Two Hands, et.al, she'll now answer the questions posed to her; "I forgot."
No, it'll be; "I never knew that!"
And when confronted with; "But you asked..."
She'll respond, "Yeah, but I didn't know anything about it."
"Ye shall Hear the Truth (that she's admits she's dumb as a swim fin) and the Truth shall Set Her Free.
QED
(Primal Scream)
This whole Circus has Become Insulting.
That's why they'll be voted against.
At 71, watch how fast her senile dementia kicks in, when she has to answer questions. They used to burn witch's like her........hummmmmmmm............
Rendition to Iceland, one at a time. Into the lava, my preteeee. Nominal charge by remaining Iceland government. Back on their feet by end CY2011 - Ned
Lobbyists generally don't last too long in DC, they either die from laughing so hard or they realize that taking candy from babies does not sharpen your skill set and move on to more challenging opportunities. Fasten your seat belt, the ride from here on out is going to be really, really, really rough...
DoChen - scroll up a bit.
I got tired of listening to people honking horns. I put a sign on the back of my truck which simply states, Honk If You Voted For Obama. Not only has it been quiet, but I discovered that no one voted for the Messiah 2.0.
They mostly all become crooks and liars, its just that our afro american population has not been afforded an equal opportunity to learn how to get away with it.
Are these representatives or New Orleans thugs robbing us of our money? I cant tell the difference right now...
She likes to grab that mike... I keep waiting for her to deep throat that bad boy
Most ethical congress ever, right SanFran Nan?
PJ O'Rourke was right (and often is) - A Parlaiment of Whores, indeed.
If dumb was a crime Maxine Waters would get life and they'd throw away the key.