Maxine Waters Wins A Fields Medal

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  February 28th at 04:01 PM  | 

Sequestration isn’t as bad as I exaggerated it to be yesterday. It’s worse. Out of the 143 Million people who work, Sequestration will cause 170 Million of them to lose their jobs. It’s Obamacare on steroids and it’s growing huge.

OK, so that’s a wee tad inaccurate. It could even be argued that Congresswoman Maxine Waters respects the truth about as much as Occupy Wall Street demonstrators respect police cars. She sincerely has no clue what Sequestration will do or will not do to U3, U6 or U235 unemployment rates. But hey, look! A microphone! Journalists!

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Tech at Night: Free Press finally answers Blackburn, SOPA vs OPEN, FCC Reform

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  December 22nd at 03:30 AM  | 

It seems like forever ago that Marsha Blackburn challenged Free Press to transparency in the group’s funding. Why should it take eight months to respond if Free Press has nothing to hide? Keep the Web OPEN. It’s a simple statement, but it’s one I support. The difference between SOPA and OPEN has been made clear to many thanks to Darrell Issa’s leadership. It’s unclear with | Read More »

Pssst! Maxine Waters (D, CA)!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 5th at 10:45 AM  | 

Just thought I’d let you know: about this? The CBC is trying to help by organizing job fairs across the country. [Congresswoman] Waters also wants to help by putting more pressure on the big banks to help with mortgages. “If they don’t come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they’ve worked so hard for, we’re going to tax them out | Read More »

Maxine Waters (D) case delayed via Democratic incompetence?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 17th at 11:00 PM  | 

That’s what the Washington Post reports, at least (H/T: The Daily Caller).  To refresh people’s memories: Rep. Waters used her position on the House Financial Services Committee to intervene on behalf of OneUnited Bank, which happens to be a bank with a personal connection with Waters.  The case was set to go in September, only to be delayed at the last second.  It will be | Read More »

Maxine Waters trial delay.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 11:00 AM  | 

There was an interesting development in the Rep. Maxine Waters ethics trial last Friday: the charges were abruptly sent back to Ethics’ investigative subcommittee for review… and ‘mum’ was, as they say, the word as to why.  Oh, Rep. Waters immediately claimed vindication – which she would probably do if they were loading her onto a tumbrel – but there hasn’t been much chatter about | Read More »

Final notes on the California Senate race

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 1st at 02:30 PM  | 

I’ve obtained a few documents and one link which really tell us where we are in California right now. Per the polling, which has remarkably projected in California little or no TEA party/Republican/Independent/conservative backlash at all, I still see Carly having a one third shot to win this, and if we saw polling which actually demonstrated a partisan enthusiasm gap, that number would have been | Read More »

Democrats: Foreclosure crisis due to banker conspiracy.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 13th at 03:00 PM  | 

I really, really wish that I was making this up, actually: For those without video, it shows Rep. Maxine Waters (D, CA-35) of the House Financial Services Committee… actually, summarizing this piece is almost impossible. The CNBC folks try their best to get some sort of coherent information out of Rep. Waters, and this is what they gleaned:

It’s not us who should be afraid about California

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 20th at 04:00 PM  | 

Last month there was a real shift in the California Senate polling. After the primary Babs Boxer was terribly underperforming her past elections, but she was at least ahead consistently. But starting in August, Carly Fiorina started taking leads. Some say that the new PPP poll is reason to worry, but I don’t. PPP is a generally honest, reliable pollster in my experience, but that | Read More »

Boxer pot aide should have gone with different drug.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 9th at 08:58 AM  | 

You have probably read or heard by now that one of Senator Barbara Boxer’s used-to-be-senior-aides got busted for trying to bring pot into Capitol Hill.  I say ‘used-to-be’ because they fired him, of course: aside from the bad image generally, as the Politico article notes Sen. Boxer is currently being a War on Some Drugs warrior when it comes to pot legalization.  Now, I will | Read More »

Jan Schakowsky (D, IL-09) saves Shorebank after all.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 24th at 08:30 AM  | 

Back in May it was reported that the failing, yet politically-connected Shorebank in Illinois was to be bailed out. The bank actually closed last Friday, but was resurrected yesterday and turned into a new bank – one that will of course have no obvious relationship to Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), who lobbied very strenuously to save Shorebank… even though it’s not based in her district. | Read More »

In Obama’s Post-Racial America: National Newspaper Publishers Association Screams Racism

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 4th at 11:30 AM  | 

Behind the scenes here at RedState, we have been joking that it was only a matter of time before people started screaming racism over the ethics trials of Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters. Well, the time has come. I have in my possession an email sent from Nichelle Holliday, an executive assistant at the Los Angeles Sentinel. The email was sent to upwards of a | Read More »

Maxine & Barbara Sitting In A Tree

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 12:23 PM  | 

Late last week, news broke that Rep. Maxine Waters is facing ethics charges and has chosen to go through an ethics trial adjudicated by fellow House members. According to the LA Times, “findings on the investigation into Waters by the Office of Congressional Ethics are expected to be made public on Monday.” However, Politico reported on Friday that “Waters’s case revolves around allegations that she | Read More »

Maxine Waters will have what Charlie Rangel’s having.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 30th at 09:30 PM  | 

Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I have long considered Maxine “Why is this woman on Financial Services?” Waters to be one of our dumber Members of Congress – which is impressive, given that we have people like Al Franken, Barbara Boxer, Arlen Specter, Shirley Jackson-Lee, and Russ Carnahan in it – but I may have to revise that.  It is now being reported | Read More »

Babs Boxer: Being a Senator is as tough as being a soldier

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 27th at 03:41 AM  | 

It’s no wonder Madam Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat-California) demands to be called Senator: She thinks it’s a pretty tough job. In fact, she thinks it’s as tough as being “a policeman or a fireman or a veteran.” It gets better, too. She says “the pressure” that she and Maxine Waters feel creates the same bonding that the aforementioned police, fire, and military volunteers endure and | Read More »

Great moments in representative democracy.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 26th at 09:21 PM  | 

You know it’s bad when somebody from CBS voluntarily uses the title “Is Maxine Waters Really As Dumb As She Seems?“: Watch CBS News Videos Online …even Hot Air was more sedate in its title*.  For those who are wondering, while grilling Fed Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke Rep. Waters confused the discount rate with the fed funds rate.  And if you didn’t know what that | Read More »