As I’m not reliably conservative, libertarian, liberal, moderate, or progressive, I’m able objectively to highlight problems with this Washington Examiner article detailing pending charges against Maxine Waters. Which is very liberating, let me tell you!
The House ethics committee is poised to announce corruption charges against Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday, deepening the embarrassment the Democratic Party faces three months ahead of critical midterm elections.
Faulty logic: the presupposition here is that the Democratic Party can feel shame. More likely, Waters is to be framed as heroic: after all, you don’t get caught violating ethics if you aren’t out trying to get something done for the greater good — even if that greater good is your own. Democrats appreciate such pluck.
Waters, D-Calif., would join Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., in fighting charges of misconduct in office. Both members could face ethics trials in the House before November.
Even were this true — and it isn’t — who would cover the story? And even were the story covered, how does such Republican bullying of two popular Black pols do anything other than point to the inveterate racism that permeates the GOP and the Tea Party?
House officials told The Washington Examiner that the charges of violating House rules will be released on Monday. Waters, a 10-term lawmaker from Los Angeles who is a senior member of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, is determined to fight the charges rather than admit guilt and accept a reprimand, censure or some other punishment to be meted out by the ethics panel, officials said.
Naturally. She’s a victim! She’s been lied to. Hoodwinked. Bamboozled!
The charges stem from efforts by Waters in 2008 to help secure $12 million in federal bailout funds for a troubled bank tied to her husband, who is a bank investor and former board member of Boston-based lender UnitedOne.
Waters, 71, who heads the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, has denied doing anything wrong.
She didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on her!
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House Democrats took control of the House in 2006 after a campaign in which the party promised to end corruption in Congress. Dozens of seats are vulnerable to GOP takeover in the upcoming midterm elections.
Well, those seats are only vulnerable if the Democrats promise to stick to counting official votes. But let’s face it: sometimes the electorate just gets it wrong, and the Democrats need to be willing to put their thumbs on the scale. For our own good.
The charges against Waters threaten to put the Democrats’ ethical troubles in the headlines for the second week in a row. Last week, Rangel, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, refused to admit to charges that he failed to pay taxes or improperly leased rent-stabilized apartments.
He also denies the ethics charges that he used his position on the powerful tax-writing committee to help several large companies with favorable tax legislation in exchange for big donations to a school named in his honor.
And really, that’s what this is about, isn’t it? That part of our reptilian brain that is is distrustful of funny-sounding names or dark dusky faces who gets schools named after them, and whom white women secretly pine after?
Listen, people. If we are going to be a post-racial nation, we need to start recognizing that anytime a black person does something ethically questionable, he or she did so simply because American history is replete with instances of discrimination against blacks — and as such, some sort of nullification for that transgression is due him or her.
Anything else is just racist. As Shirley Sherrod, among others, will happily remind you.
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My buddy Rick’s summer college baseball team won the Great South League championship yesterday.
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Ethics? Democrats?
I don’t think either of these districts are in danger of sending anyone helpful to Washington anytime soon but the Waters one can’t help but send someone smarter and the Rangel one can’t help but send someone less cocksuckery.
Maxine’s finest Maxine. Of course it doesn’t belong here.
This remains my favorite Maxine.
That doesn’t belong here either, racist.
nullificationBzzzztttt…
Code word. Well not so much code as the whole post was dripping with racism, as well as sexism, and what the hell, ageism. Young, male and white? Plus, the surname of Goldstein? You’re altogether evil.
HTML meltdown in aisle 4.
Two words: Al Franken
Greetings:
What, no mention of the Congressional Black Caucus???
So now ethics are racist? That’s the rumor from the CBC. We must stop prosecuting unethical blacks, until a sufficient number of unethical whites, latinos and asians have a committed a similar number of violations. Until that time, we shall let black congressman/woman get away with it, because the white man has been “getting away with it” for years.
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house for the most ethical congress ever (and a white woman), refused comment.
How fucking racist can you cousinfucking hilljack racists be?
Stone Cole geezer, dude.
Keep up the good work.
Small nit to pick here.
Democrat and ethics should never appear in the same sentence.
Geez bh she must have gotten a “pelosi” treatment, this is the Maxine I always picture.
Until Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are served papers. I would say they have a valid point as far as the Democrat side goes.
Democrats are more racist, who knew?
Brevity being the soul of sumpin’er-other, I think mines’s gotcha both beat g and b. Why suffer any longer than absolutely necessary, racists?
Heh, I forgot all about that, Geoff.
One day I won’t giggle like a little girl when I read “hilljack”.
B Moe has a point.
All this does is add to Rangel and Waters’ gangsta cred. Can’t never get ahead playin’ by whitey’s rules doncha know.
why would you ever want to quit giggling at the term hilljack?