Waters charges released by ethics committee: The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted August 9, 2010 2:10 PM
The Swamp

by Mike Memoli

The House ethics committee has released more information about the specific charges against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), which will be heard at a rare open session of the panel next month.

Documents made public today detail three specific charges against the Los Angeles congresswoman, related to apparent efforts to receive federal help for a bank where her husband owned stock and had served on its board.

According to the 10-page statement of alleged violations, Waters' chief of staff continued to seek assistance from the Treasury Department for OneUnited Bank even when Waters herself realized it was improper to do so because of her martial connection. Another charge finds that any attempt by Waters to assist the bank violated the spirit of House ethics rules because doing so preserved the value of a family investment.

Waters is the second Democratic member of Congress facing what is often compared to a trial before her peers before the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The documents released today also include Waters' response to alleged wrongdoing, and the committee's subsequent refusal to do so.

Waters has said that once the charges were public, she hoped her constituents and all Americans "will understand that I have not violated any House rules."

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Go ahead and celebrate, Repugs. But while you're doing so remember that it's only a matter of weeks before the legal hammer drops on John Ensign.


Republican John Ensign's Aides Cleared To Testify To Grand Jury.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/ensign-aides-cleared-to-testify-to-grand-jury-on-senator-s-affair-99611329.html


It's only a matter of days before the cuffs get slapped on Ensign.



Water's is an amateur in the theater of corruption, obviously. Doesn't mean that she should get off. But, here is how to really pull off a heist. Water's should have studied DiFi the senior senator from Cali.

http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/bixman_20010615.html

Isn't is great that the government "protects" public land from us...ah I mean for themselves.


If you have never seen this area, imagine total isolation, no water, nothing in middle of hundreds of miles of desert, where summer temps hit 130 degrees. That's where Diane Feinstein stole a gold mine right out from under your nose.


Posted by: Free To Watch the Liberal's Summer Meltdown August 9, 2010 2:24 PM
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Free to Watch Cartoons,


What's the problem, Sparky? Are the doughy white Billionaire Repugs wanting to build some oil wells for BP on that land or something?



Another elected official gets their hands caught in the cookie jar. Some of our our politicians never learn. What makes this case special is that Maxine Waters is the second high ranking Democrat in the last couple of weeks (Rangel the first) to have charges brought against them by the House Ethics Committee.


Gives a whole new meaning to muddy waters.
Just another Demo-crook who wants you to do as they say not as they do.
BTW, Rob this artcile is not about John Ensign so how about staying on topic for once. Wait your turn for the next Sarah Palin swamp artcile.


Posted by: conservativemaster | August 9, 2010 3:18 PM
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conservativeclown,


Gee Biff, why am I NOT surprised that you wingnutters don't want to talk about the criminals (Ensign, Vitter, Sanford) who are still serving in good standing in todays Repug party?



BTW, Rob this article is not about John Ensign so how about staying on topic for once. Wait your turn for the next Sarah Palin swamp artcile.

Posted by: conservativemaster | August 9, 2010 3:18 PM


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conservativemaster, you should know better that Rob ( include Don Fitzgerald) cannot talk about the topic of the article when either of them has nothing intelligent to say. They must always change the subject and start the name calling. But it is really easy to pick the topic of all of Don Fitzgerald and Rob's comments"
"Ugh, All Republicans are Bad, Ugh, All Democrats are Good."


IMPLODED MORTGAGE COMPANIES SPEAK! SHHHHHHHHH! SHHHHHHH! We were just suppose to take the money! We were just "mortgage incubators" for Bear Sterns! CitiMortgage! Wachovia! SHHHHHHHHH! SHHHHHHHHH! We all took the money! We all swore to just not tell! Just not sell! Just not modify! We all took the money! SHHHHHHHH! It was TARP Money! It was "Paulson" Money! It was what the "SECRETARY" demmed necessary at the Mortgage Home Ownership Alliance "Derivatives" deal or no deal meetings! SHHHHHHHHHHH! SHHHHHHHHHHH! The Fundamentals of the Economy where strong! Job Creation was on the rise! Save me! Save me! I'm broke! Because Paulson said I was broke! Because Cheney said we were all broke! It was always about "Civil rights." Minority Home Ownership rights! Female Home Ownership rights! SHHHHHHHH! Just don't say :Lichtenstein! Just don't say 135 Billion in fake Bear Stern/JP Morgan bearabonds! So what if we 200 billion and then the collapse! We were told to say we're broke! It was always about GOP Theft by Deception and Bush/Cheney Depression double dipMortgage RECESSION! America was "Augmentated" Just say you are broke! SHHHHHHHHHH! Maxine Waters should commended for savings mortgages the GOP couldn't put in their Theft by Deception column! Call Rick Davis! Call Phil Gramm! Call UBS! SHHHHHHH! It was always about "minority" home ownership rights! Archives don't lie!


Rob, have you figured out what socialism is yet?


Maybe your remedial tutor can explain it to you, or perhaps Sesame Street will do a special. Then you can absorb the information.

Roads are built to facilitate trade; you know capitalism. Police have been around for hundreds of years before socialism. They were hired to protect lives and property ownership. That's capitalism again.


Public schools and public transportation are failures of socialism.


Seems that you always back losers, Rob. Wonder why?


Posted by: Free to Watch the Liberal's Summer Meltdown | August 9, 2010 4:23 PM
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Biff,
Do me a favor and pass this on to your fellow Teabagger losers, will ya?


Timmy the Teabagger awakened early. Timmy pours a strong cup of coffee. Timmy does not consider that the federal government monitors his water supply to ensure a quality standard. Afterward, Timmy enjoys a walk around the block. He is so happy the government paid for and constructed sidewalks. It is much safer.


Timmy sees his youngest daughter off to board the taxpayer- funded school bus, which takes her to the taxpayer-funded, government-run school.


He then takes a shower. Timmy uses the government-subsidized, strictly regulated public water/sewer system. Timmy never complains about this service. Timmy's oldest daughter is on her way to the taxpayer- funded, government-run library, to get information on federal government grants or loans for the state-subsidized university. They chat about their vacation, visiting the federal government-owned and maintained Grand Canyon.


Timmy's mom calls, to tell him how excited she is that she is now able to cut back on her workload, because she will be collecting from the federal government-run Social Security and Medicare programs. Timmy is happy for his hardworking mother.


Timmy gets into his car and pulls out into the taxpayer-funded road. He passes several taxpayer-funded traffic lights and signs. Timmy stops at his FDIC-insured bank. As he approaches, Timmy notices a huge increase in police, fire and emergency medical services, all government-run and paid for by tax-payers.


Timmy pulls into the free parking lot, provided for patrons of the taxpayer-funded, government-run park.


Failing to see the irony, Timmy opens his trunk and removes his "No Socialism!" Teabagger sign. Timmy believes in smaller government and less taxes. Timmy does not consider the number of government-run, socialist services that have enriched his life -- all before 9 a.m.!


http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/letters/tuesday-opinion_2010-08-03.html



Oh I Lub Dat Durty Water!!!


Rob, wHHHite house whatever.

Did little timmy drive in his brand new government motors car paid for in part by his neighbors? Did little timmy bank at one of those healthy banks that were forced to take TARP money even though they didn't need it? Did little timmy gas up at a BP station where he paid into a 20 billion obama slush fund? Maybe little timmy's hours have been cut at work so his employer doesn't have to pay a health care penalty. Timmy's doctor will no longer care for him because obamacare doesn't cover his condition.

But what really has timmy upset is the democrat that doesn't pay his taxes but is in charge of writing the rules for everyone else. And, while timmy's bank gets screwed by the architect of the economic collapse, Maxine is getting timmy's tax dollars to prop up her investment in a failing bank.

It seems timmy does have a lot to be pissed about and government taking over one sixth of the economy and holding people's health hostage in the process smells more and more like socialism with a touch of facism thrown in.

Seems timmy is a lot brighter than the cult followers of an incompetent liar.


LEt's interject some facts into the converstaion instead koo-aid riddled rants from Trickled-On Rob.

The bank that Maxine Waters was trying to help - OneUnited Bank of Boston - , on behalf, of her husband was considered the weakest bank of all the banks to receive TARP funds. The Bank, unlike most of the TARP receiving institutions, has yet to pay the gov't back.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38575419/ns/business-us_business/


Posted by: Hans | August 9, 2010 6:00 PM
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Hans and Franz,


Oh yeah, I forgot.


Timmy the Teabagger goes to the Teabagger rally with a misspelled sign that says: "Keep Gov't Out Of My Medicare!"


http://www.bobcesca.com/images/medicare_sign_teabaggers.jpg



Rob, posts daily in the Swamp showing his ignorance to all the world. Never having taken advantage of the free education given to him by hard working taxpayers, Rob only knows how to paste the same tired hateful drivel over and over. Rob always has been a follower and was afraid that someone in his peer group might beat him up if they thought he could spell. A mind really is a terrible thing to waste.


Let's try it again Rob.

Under socialism, the government owns the fruits of your labor, not the individual. Therefore, if the government decides that a bank that the government has insured is going to fail and the government decides that that bank is TOO BIG TO FAIL the government can and will confiscate the fruits of your labor to BAIL OUT that big bank.


That is socialism; where the government controls and determines where the money goes (the fruits of labor) and when. And that's how socialism fails. The government is never right when it picks winners and losers. Another example of the government's failure to pick winners and losers: your fine public schools. What a dismal failure they are! They sure failed you.


Again consider the latest socialist disaster, the democrat's plan to encourage people that could not afford them to purchase $500,000 homes with the government buying ALL those bad loans. Sounds like a nice idea to have everyone buy a house, but the government did a TERRIBLE job of picking winners and losers, now didn't it? So, bad that it caused the collapse of our economy and increased the suffering of millions of people around the world. Yes, socialism controlling the economy really enriched our lives.


The government, through a socialist program, warped the housing market and destroyed it.


The government has used our money to enrich failed businesses, and continues to steal money from all the people in the United States to prop up businesses and banks that are failing. The stimulus money was wasted. Where are all those "shovel ready jobs?" Trillions of dollars taken out of the economy by the government kills economic activity. That money could have gone to a new company startup. A new idea that could have been the next Microsoft. But, NO, the government is deciding who will get the money. Guess who got it: GM's unions, Citibank a failure, but a supporter of Obama and his economic team, State governments that could not run their own governments (like California), and of course the main culprits in the whole failure Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ALL LOSERS


That's socialism, and it WILL fail again.

Posted by: Free To Watch the Liberal's Summer Meltdown | August 9, 2010 2:37 AM

One more thing, Rob. You can't claim that roads and police, water and sewer, and public land are socialist ideas, because those things have been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Socialism has been the scourge of the earth for about 160 years.


They are for the majority a result of capitalism and PAID FOR BY CAPITALISM. Roads for trade, police to protect life and property ownership, cities built in strategic trade routes, like CHICAGO. Yes, the failed ideas of public transportation and schools is supported in the majority by government.

Even Social Security is funded by Capitalism.


Posted by: Free To Watch the Liberal's Summer Meltdown | August 9, 2010 4:17 AM


Thank goodness Nancy Pelosi ushered in "the most ethical Congress ever."


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Posted by: Free to Watch the Liberal's Summer Meltdown | August 9, 2010 4:23 PM
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It's wasted effort trying to teach anything to Rob (aka John E., Hulk Smash!, Former Republican, Janet, Huh?, etc.). He/she/it does not think for his/her/it-self, and won't listen to anyone except those of his/her/its own political stripe (which is the extreme right-wing fringe of the progressive movement). He/she/it thinks he/she/it is here to tell us something interesting, useful and poigniant. He/she/it doesn't realize that his/her/it posts are nothing but monuments to stupidity relayed here by a parrot. So forget telling Rob (or whoever/whatever he/she/it is) anything. It's a waste of time.


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