Very well put.

And look, she has Beavis and Butthead’s teacher playing guitar!

That being said, Maxine Waters is either horrifically dense or, more likely, gratuitously opportunistic, and her grandstanding makes me cringe.

That’s not exclusive to her, or even left-wing politicians. I can recall that then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich once blamed the actions of a woman who drowned her own children on “the values of liberalism”.

Similarly, much of the disaster in Iraq is because the current administration treated it as pork barrel, rather than a serious commitment.

Still, I wish dingbats like Waters and Senator Richard Shelby would look at the issue of the Detroit bailout outside the lens of their narrow provincial interests.

She may well be insane, but that’s really not the point.

What really worries me is that her constituents keep re-electing her! Let’s face it, they have been voting her back into office every other year since Christ was a corporal!

So what is the greater severity of insanity, her own messed up way of thinking, her penchant for screaming racism evrytime somebody disagrees with her, or that she is continually chosen and re-chosen by the majority of voters in her district?

I tell you, she may be insane, but the voters are getting EXACTLY what they want.

…Tomorrow, Congressional Democrats intend to have a hearing so they can blame old white men.

Maxine Waters is a racist.

She uses racism as a baton to beat others with, when in reality, she has no evidence to support any of her claims.

She represents the worst of the worst politicians of our time.

When Maxine says “minority,” she means “black.”

Black people as a group and a culture in the United States are very Detroit-loyal in their car choices it should be mentioned, however. The ‘Sclade wouldn’t be around if it wasn’t for black America’s odd appreciation for that vehicle at the highest income and cultural level. Ditto for any luxo-barge from the ’70’s.

With that in mind, it probably makes sense for Detroit to be “sensitive to minority concerns” as Maxine might put it, because they have an out sized representation in Detroit’s market share relative to their numbers. Once Maxine and the gang are in control of Detroit however, I imagine they will also run this into the ground. I can’t wait to buy a Honda knowing the sales-tax I pay on it will subsidize someone’s Pontiac G1.3 someday.

I think that it was discussed a few days ago, that with gov’t control of the domestic auto industry come their agenda – and apparently it’s not focused on making money.

If you polled the general public on who they would trust more – a politician or a car dealer – my bet is it would be a dead heat.

Waters and the rest defend Fannie and Freddie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

To Maxine Waters, the nail is racism, and having observed her antics with incredulity for years, I can say that she’s definitely a tool.

While I was writing the editorial, C-SPAN hadn’t yet posted transcripts of the hearing so I transcribed Waters’ remarks myself. Shear torture. The lady doesn’t have enough neurons to form a single synapse.

Obviously, she has some guile and street smarts or she never would have gotten as far as she has in politics, but you gotta figure that other House members cringe when they hear the phrase “The gentlewoman from California”.

Henry Ford, unlike other early automakers, bigot though he was, made a point of hiring blacks. He also liked to hire ex-cons and handicapped workers. The Health Department at Ford placed handicapped workers in appropriate jobs (when they weren’t busy tending to the hundreds who lost fingers and limbs in press machines).

To give this lady a mike is like giving John Holmes a condom. Too little (or big), too late.