{"id":6605,"date":"2010-08-13T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T19:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6605"},"modified":"2010-08-13T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T19:49:40","slug":"from-the-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-file-maxine-waters-blames-bush-for-ethics-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6605\/from-the-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-file-maxine-waters-blames-bush-for-ethics-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"From the &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Make This Stuff Up&#8221; File:  Maxine Waters Blames Bush for Ethics Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, Americans&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/53-employment-and-labor\/711-why-were-boiling-over-federal-salaries-now-twice-that-of-private-sector\" target=\"_blank\">outrage<\/a> over the nonsense spewed upon us by desperate Washington, D.C. liberals becomes twisted amusement.\u00a0 Today, Representative Maxine Waters (D &#8211; California) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/08\/13\/rep-waters-violated-house-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">managed<\/a> to pull the &#8220;race card&#8221; and &#8220;blame Bush&#8221; card in one preposterous swoop.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Waters now finds herself the defendant against Congressional ethics charges that she improperly offered special assistance to OneUnited, a bank on whose board her husband had served.\u00a0 At the time, her husband owned $350,000 in OneUnited stock, which was threatened by the financial downturn and would stand to benefit from federal dollars.\u00a0 Speaking to reporters to rationalize her behavior, Waters claimed that she was compelled to do what she did because the Bush Treasury Department wasn&#8217;t responding to her satisfaction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question at this point should not be why I called Secretary [Henry] Paulson, but why I had to.\u00a0 The question at this point should be why a trade association representing over one hundred minority banks could not get a meeting at the height of the crisis.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Waters apparently hasn&#8217;t received the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/jonah081310.php3\" target=\"_blank\">memo<\/a> that &#8220;the race card is maxed out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, Americans&#8217; outrage over the nonsense spewed upon us by desperate Washington, D.C. liberals becomes twisted amusement.\u00a0 Today, Representative Maxine Waters (D &#8211; California) managed to pull the &#8220;race card&#8221; and &#8220;blame Bush&#8221; card in one preposterous swoop. Representative Waters now finds herself the defendant against Congressional ethics charges that she improperly offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,1707,949,1706,1638,1636,28,1637],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bush","tag-bush-card","tag-ethics","tag-maxine","tag-race-card","tag-rangel","tag-tea-party","tag-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6608,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}