Rep. Maxine Waters Unmasks the Democrats

By The Neville Awards
Posted May 24 2008

Maxine Waters, perhaps the dumbest representative in Congress, truly stepped in it at the "Let's Embarrass the Oil Execs for the Umpteenth Time" hearings. Her socialist mask came off as she was "grilling" the collected oil execs. Struggling to find just the right words she blurted out:

“And guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be all about socializing — er, uh. [stutter, stammer] …. would be about … basically … taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”...Amazing.

She wanted to say "nationalizing," but either couldn't or wouldn't say the magic word. The oil industry reps were probably thinking, "we've seen this movie before, it's called Hugo Chavez in Venezuela."

Just reading the transcript does not do the quote justice. For the full effect you have to watch the clip.

Over the years Maxine has ill-served the people of Inglewood, Los Angeles and South-Central (South LA for the politically correct among you). The area has remained a gang-infested pit during her entire term while she attends cocktail parties in Washington D.C.

Among her signature accomplishments:

She called for "No Justice, No Peace" after the Rodney King verdict and then described the mayhem, looting, killing, burning and rioting that occurred a "festival atmosphere". She should have been arrested for incitement to riot.

She blocked the building of a Wal Mart Superstore in her district claiming that it would destroy the job base by forcing the Mom&Pops to close. What job base? Most of the Mom&Pops closed anyway. Never mind that the store would have created between 700 and one thousand jobs that would have paid better and provided benefits. The store opened elsewhere in LA and those folks are benefiting.

But the voters in her district keep sending her back to Congress. Just like the voters in William Jefferson's district sent him back after he was found with $90,000 in cash in his freezer...just like D.C. voters re-elected Marion Barry mayor after the crack cocaine conviction. The unspoken truth is that there is a racial component to elections. It's as if as long as blacks have one of their own in office, no matter how corrupt or incompetent, their lives will be better. That would also explain the 80-90% margins for Obama. Nothing will change until there is comptetent leadership no matter what color the candidate is.

I can here the cries of outrage now...you're a racist!, you're a bigot!. Whatever. Truth is truth. Facts are facts.

Who is really keeping black and hispanics dependent on governmemnt assistance? When are minorities going to realize that voting for these self-serving liberal frauds and race hustlers is not in their best interests?

Meanwhile in Washington it appears the quasi-socialists in Congress are feeling more at ease with themselves confident that one of their own will be elected in November thereby allowing them to drop the facade they have had for years.

During the hearings one of the petroleum officials from Shell Oil lectured the committee reminding them of environmentalists and Congress' refusal to actually do something to expand oil exploration, refining, and drilling. In doing so the petroleum official rightly pointed out that due to the law of supply and demand, if they continued to block U.S. oil exploration, refining, and drilling the price of fuel would continue to rise and nothing could be done about it.

Not to be outdone by Maxine The Slight the other socialists on the committee also chimed in. They put all the very deep and serious questions they could think of to the oil company execs. Here are some of the real gems:

“Where is the corporate conscience?” (huh!?!) Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked the top executives of the five largest U.S. oil companies. “You have to sense what you’re doing to us - we’re on the precipice here, about to fall into recession,” said Durbin. “Does it trouble any one of you - the costs you’re imposing on families, on small businesses, on truckers? Is there anybody here that has any concerns about what you’re doing to this country with the prices that you’re charging and the profits that you’re taking?” Durbin asked.

“People we represent are hurting, the companies you represent are profiting,” Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told the executives. He said there’s a “disconnect” between legitimate supply issues and the oil and gasoline prices motorists are seeing.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., noting that Exxon’s profits had nearly quadrupled from $11.5 billion in 2002, said he had heard nothing from the oilmen that would explain “why profits have gone up so high when the consumer is suffering so much.”

You have “just a litany of complaints that you’re all just hapless victims of a system,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told the executives. “Yet you rack up record profits … quarter after quarter after quarter.”

American kabuki theater at it's finest...mucho huffing and puffing, feigned outrage, political grandstanding from the people asking fake questions...a way to get on television. Millionaires badgering other millionaires. These are the same Congressmen that have taken bundles of cash from big oil, big medical, big pharma, big trial lawyers et al. These are the same Congressmen who say over and over again "we're gonna get tough with the special interests!!!"

Truthful answers were not needed or required. The quotes were generated for the constituents so that they would see that people like Durbin really truly, madly and deeply care about their pain.

The real question is when is any reporter going to ask Obama if nationalizing Big Oil is the way to go. Don't hold your breath.