Maxine Waters?
NOOOOOOOOOO!
Posted on 05/04/2013 4:46:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Barack Obama has promised to take back the United States House of Representatives in 2014 by using his Organizing for Action superhero/super PAC as his weapon.
And if that happens the country faces the prospect of this old socialist, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Graft, Theft, Shakedown), becoming the chair of the House Financial Services committee. Just imagine super-liberals Sens. Ron Wyden (D-DeathState), or Chuck Shumer (D-EastCoast) teaming up with Waters to re-write Dodd-Frank banking law to make it more liberal.
But so far B.O.’s money superstorm disguised as a PAC has made a lot of noise but hasn’t even ruffled feathers on the left side of the aisle, let alone amongst Republicans.
“OFA’s pledge to punish senators who voted against gun control was the first big test of the group’s reach,” reports Politico, “and, undoubtedly, a difficult one, given that many of the senators voting no were in deep-red states where Obama lost badly. Even measured against those odds, there are almost no successes to point to: the group didn’t sway a single vote for the background check proposal, and so far, they haven’t been able to make any of those who voted against it feel any heat.”
But it would be unwise for America to get too comfortable. Again: Just imagine super-liberals Sens. Ron Wyden (D-DeathState), or Chuck Shumer (D-EastCoast) teaming up with Waters to re-write Dodd-Frank to make it more liberal.
While there has been some talk about scratching Maxine Waters as the replacement for Barney Frank on the House Financial Service Committee, by the look of the googly eyes Democrats are making at each other, don’t count on Dems to do the decent thing. The decent thing would be have Go-to-Hell Maxine step aside for a less ethically challenged liberal- you know, if there are any.
As Ezra Klein pointed out in his WonkBlog, however, the top contender to push Waters aside and replace Frank, Democrat Rep. Caroline Maloney, waged something of an equivocal insurgency that likely depended more upon the results of the ethics investigation into Waters’ banking relationships than any outward campaign that Maloney can mount.
Look for Maxine to continue to lobby for the top Democrat spot on the finance committee; look for Maloney to wait in the background for an ethics charge to undo Maxine; and look for the GOP to keep up enough pressure to embarrass the Democrats, but not quite alive enough to do Maxine in, just yet.
Late summer 2014 should be time enough to pillory That Old Socialist in front of a TV audience full of millions of registered voters.
“As the next most senior member of the committee, the current ranking member on the Capital Markets Subcommittee and the former chairwoman of the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee, I hope to use my experience to continue and expand his work in the committee,” said Waters in a statement on Frank’s retirement as reported in Politico. “I will continue to champion practical regulations, while making sure they work for consumers and the financial sector, a sector which has the right to be profitable but the obligation to be fair, two concepts which are not mutually exclusive.”
Those aren’t her only qualifications, either.
Her husband sat on the board and had stock in minority-owned OneUnited Bank, which has the distinction of being one of the few banks to ask the US Treasury for a bailout and not getting it...initially. But then on second thought, after the Maxine Brigade got to work, the Treasury finally coughed up $12 million.
Waters set up a meeting with then-secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, and the CEO of OneUnited Bank CEO, along with her grandson, who also acts as her chief of staff when he’s not advising the secretary of the Treasury on banking matters.
Banking talent runs deep in the Waters family.
But perhaps the biggest gift to Republicans will be that Waters was and still is a huge fan of Fannie Mae.
Human Events ranks Maxine’s defense of Fannie as number five in the top ten most outrageous statements Waters has ever made:
As a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, Waters played a key role in allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s reckless actions that led to the housing meltdown. Here is Waters, at a 2004 congressional hearing, (and yes, that is the same “Frank” Raines that vastly overstated Fannie Mae’s earnings in order to receive $90 million in bonuses). “We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.”
Going forward, they may want to rethink that ranking.
And so should the GOP.
Maxine Waters should be the poster child for the NRCC in 2014.
Maxine Waters?
NOOOOOOOOOO!
Not just evil, but evil AND stupid.
Bad combo.
People that can’t do simple math running the country.
Is it bad that a part of me wants to watch the carnage if this happens?
The GOP is a Big Tent.
What's more disappointing, is Freepers - and this isn't pointed at you - can't do the simple math of a lame-duck mid-term election, which even a douchebag libtard fraud like Charlie Cook can do ... despite burying the lead in the last paragraph:
"Historically, we have seen unfortunate political patterns appear during second presidential terms. The party occupying the Oval Office has suffered significant House and/or Senate losses in five of the last six second-term, midterm elections. Since World War II, the party holding the White House for two consecutive terms has also lost it in five out of the six subsequent elections." -- Charlie Cook, NationalJournal.com, April 23, 2013
I’ve seen several articles now that have spoken of the possibilities of the Dems taking back the House, which is rare for a party to do in it’s sixth year of holding the presidency. Why is is the media assuming this is a strong possibility, given history? Is there some polling out there that suggests this is a possibility?
Probably trying to drive up turnout. And fundraising. Perception = reality. Will Conservatives be better motivated by the prospect of Waters in that position than Dems will?
It is wishful thinking of the 0bama media that many on our side will do the same mistake they did in 2006. When they wanted to punish the GOP and handed the House and the Senate over to the rats and let Nancy Pelosi become Speaker of the house and push the 0bama care bill down our throat. Never must we allow this to happen again
That’s an insult to Rerun. He was loveable and had a dancing talent. Ole Muddy is vile.
Thanks Kaslin.
No one should be fooled about what "Organizing for Action" is. It oversaw a massive voting fraud and cheating operation which very possibly was decisive for Zero's reelection in 2012.
It does not appear that the 'rats can take back the House next year if the elections are conducted lawfully. The current political climate - especially the unpopularity of Obamacare - suggests otherwise. Therefore, the only way the 'rats could possibly achieve their goal in 2014 is by ramping up their fraud and cheating operations and focusing them on swing districts. They can be stopped only when the GOP recognizes the problem and implements countermeasures to mitigate it!!!
What is the source of your posted article and who is the author?
Mmmmmmm....the guys look mighty (ahem) satisfied.
How many of those car jockeys did Nancy personally "lube?"
She's moved on........sort of.
Nancy recently told Chris Wallace on Fox News, "It is almost a false argument (made by Repubs) to say that we have a spending problem (WRT sequestration)." (TRANSLATION "And besides, we need trillions to subsidize all our "new citizens" who will vote---and make me Majority Leader, again---not to mention the billions in foreign aid we plan to give to all the countries on the other side of the border.")
NANCY SUCKS-UP: DOING THE DEALS IN EXCHANGE FOR VOTES
L-R--Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ); dual citizen Salomon Melgen, VOXXI Chman; Rep Nancy Pelosi (D-CAL) (all dolled up in the latest fashion); Francisco J. Sanchez, US Under Secy of Commerce for Intl Trade, Emilio Sanchez, Pres/CEO of VOXXI at the Ntl Assoc of Latino Elected and Appt Officials Gala in DC. (Photo/ Voxxi---Melgen's ethnic solidarity web site)
IMO, it would help to organize volunteers from groups such as retired veterans and former law enforcement to investigate the voter fraud and to clean the voter rolls that have been padded with illegals, the dead, etc. starting now.
He couldn’t win his Senate seat without conspiring to get his opponents kicked off the ballot. Nothing has changed since.
Good point. That's why we should know that "Organizing for America" is just a benign-sounding name for what is in some respects a criminal enterprise which rejects playing the "game" within the rules of decency and fairness.
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