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Congresswoman threatens to nationalize oil industry (Maxine Waters)
WND ^ | 5-23-08 | staff

Posted on 05/23/2008 10:10:18 AM PDT by Nachum

In a grilling of oil executives by a House panel yesterday, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., threatened to nationalize the industry if it didn't do something about the rising prices at the pump.

A report by Fox News, captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com, showed Waters challenging the president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, to guarantee the prices consumers pay will go down if the oil companies are allowed to drill wherever they want off of U.S. shores.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; congresswoman; energy; energyprices; govwatch; nationalize; oil; threatens; waters
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1 posted on 05/23/2008 10:10:19 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

COMMUNISM COMES TO CAPITOL HILL

That`s the headline I read on every newspaper and first

story on all the TV news programs, not.


2 posted on 05/23/2008 10:12:33 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Nachum

Our own female Hugo...how wonderful.


3 posted on 05/23/2008 10:12:44 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Nachum

Certifiable.


4 posted on 05/23/2008 10:13:51 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: Nachum

Even the people beside her at the table were laughing.


5 posted on 05/23/2008 10:14:51 AM PDT by Misschuck
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To: Nachum

What an unbelievable fool that woman is.


6 posted on 05/23/2008 10:14:52 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: Nachum

This explains the tremor I felt in the Force yesterday.


7 posted on 05/23/2008 10:15:14 AM PDT by upchuck (Who wins doesn't matter. They're all liberals. Spend your time and money to take back Congress.)
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To: Nachum

Yeah! Because we all see how much better and efficient things are run when we let you a$$hats do it.


8 posted on 05/23/2008 10:16:04 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: Nachum

“In a rare moment of candor...”


9 posted on 05/23/2008 10:16:07 AM PDT by WayneS (What the hell is wrong with these people?)
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To: Nachum

Obama voters put this imbecile into office.

Black people will vote for a black loud mouthed imbecile over an intelligent white person any day.

As a group, black Americans are extremely racist.


10 posted on 05/23/2008 10:16:39 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Nachum

Will Maxine become a roustabout?


11 posted on 05/23/2008 10:17:43 AM PDT by stevem
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To: Nachum

Some village in Kalifornia is missing an idiot this morning...


12 posted on 05/23/2008 10:19:44 AM PDT by Gritty (Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink - P.J. OÂ’Rourke)
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To: gate2wire

“There is nothing more discouraging than ignorance in action.”


13 posted on 05/23/2008 10:20:30 AM PDT by Ed Condon (Wanted, newer tag line in good condition.)
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To: Nachum

To paraphrase Dan Akroyd “Maxine you ignorant slut”


14 posted on 05/23/2008 10:21:10 AM PDT by wordsofearnest ("That government is best which governs least" & Zachary Taylor s/h finished the job.)
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To: Nachum

I watched the clip. She is missing large areas of brain matter in the region that controls logic. And speech, and reflex, and....


15 posted on 05/23/2008 10:21:31 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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To: Bon mots

Your point was proven with the electing/re-electing Marion Barry.


16 posted on 05/23/2008 10:22:16 AM PDT by Khuey (Political correctness is ALWAYS having to say you're sorry!)
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To: Nachum; girlangler
I am convinced that 95% of the members of congress are in the lower 25% of the intelligence bell curve. How can we continually, consistently find so many flipping idiots?
17 posted on 05/23/2008 10:25:01 AM PDT by Grammy
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To: Nachum
Why are people surprised? Incremental socialism has been occurring in this country for years! Few people have realized what is happening because they are the proverbial frog in the pot of water failing to realize they have been slowly cooking in the socialist stew for a long time.
18 posted on 05/23/2008 10:25:42 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Nachum

Tagline update.


19 posted on 05/23/2008 10:27:25 AM PDT by Grammy (Maxine Waters wants to....sociali.... er ....nationali....er... take over the oil industry.)
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To: gate2wire

What part of our nation keeps sending this stupid woman back to Congress?


20 posted on 05/23/2008 10:28:07 AM PDT by Volunteer (Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
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