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.
If Dems win the house Maxine Waters will be the least of our problems.
“What’s Happening?”
Maxine is Rerun
Are you certain this is NOT satire? Can’t possibly be true, that woman is dumber than a sack full of hammers.
I know, right
That is a crime against humanity.
We have to make sure that they don’t
I don’t know, would she be any worse that Barney Frank?
Oops, We are talking about Maxine Waters! Yes she could.
But she would probably work hard at opening up THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN again.
It’s the union way! (seniority)
Well, the feckless GOP had best do something to give people a reason to vote for them, because so far...
“Swing the camera over so we can see the flag!”
And a third party candidate who has zero chances to get past the primaries is a reason to vote for him or her? Keep on dreaming
it sure is!..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXbT5ZMYaY
But not much as a weak Baah-baah from the sheep
I don’t support a third party, nor do I have a third party, nor do I support the useless and pathetic GOP.
You think the GOP is going to do anything at all or than expand government?
You keep on dreaming, Kaslin.
(normally it's my rule to post nothing 'serious' on saturday mornings, but the above's for real )-:
Complete with choice video snippets. They abound.
Matter of fact, I am in possession of some Hi-8 tape which has on it Maxine shaking her ass at us (DC Chapter) in front of the White Hut. (true story)
We tried getting it to Vanity to air but he wouldn’t put it on.
‘Pod.
You sure do act like as if you do support the third parties. I am not saying that a third party would be wrong, but as there are so many out there it is impossible for any of them to have any chances
I know, you tell me that every time you post to me.
But the fact is that I do not.
I am simply a man whose party left him without a party at all.
I’m not certain that there is any solution to this. I fear that will soon be a man whose country left him with no country at all.
I cannot support the GOP any longer, I simply have no reason to do so. However, come 2014, I will likely have no choice but to vote R, because doing anything else could have dire consequences.
But doing so could also have dire consequences.
I feel like I’ve been snookered by the party of government, which is my name for all branches of government.
The main difference between her and the Obama phone woman from Cleveland?She gets to vote in the House.Other than that,they’re bookends.
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