Browsing around sites this morning, I came across a blurb on National Review Online about Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Two things in the short write-up caught my eye.
The first item said that if the Dem's win back the House, she'll be chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee. And to me, that's like making Bugs Bunny president of MIT. Then she goes on to call Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor “demons” who “would rather do whatever they can to destroy this president, rather than for the good of this country.”
And although I really don't know all that much about her, I've seen her enough to realize that she's one of those old-time political hacks that lives in a world that no longer exists. Furthermore, she's got the picture upside down. Because, I think if you want to see what demons are really all about you might want to consider people who've been selling their nation out for the past five years by passing ridiculous legislation that might have sunk it altogether if not for a couple of tough guys, Boehner and Cantor, who did their best to try and save it.
Out of pure curiosity I just looked her up on Wikipedia, which I grant you isn't the most reliable source, but they do gather a lot of details, and here's what I found out: She worked in a garment factory and as a telephone operator before being hired as an assistant teacher with the Head Start program at Watts in 1966. She later enrolled at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles,) graduating with a sociology degree in 1970.
In 1973, she went to work as chief deputy to City Councilman, David S. Cunningham, Jr, entering the California State assembly in 1976. While in the assembly she worked for divestment of state pension funds from any businesses active in South Africa, a country then operating under the policy of apartheid and helped pass legislation within the guidelines of the divestment campaign's Sullivan Principles. She ascended to the position of Democratic Caucus Chair for the Assembly.
Upon the retirement of Augustus P. Hawkins in 1990, Waters was elected to the House for California's 29th Congressional District getting over 79% of the popular vote. She's been re-elected consistently, with at least 70% of the popular vote, in the California's 35th Congressional District after significant parts of the pre-1990 29th California Congressional District were folded into the newly defined 35th California Congressional District when California gained seven additional seats in the House following the 1990 United States Census.
And now, having read the preceding, I fully understand why she does little more than call names and make ridiculous comments about those who she dislikes. Because just like a kid in a schoolyard who's clueless about how anything really works, much less the financial affairs of the most prosperous nation on earth, she has nothing in her knowledge base to draw on so she simply taunts and verbally assaults those who oppose her.
I also think I typed too soon before, when comparing her acumen to Bugs Bunny. Because now that I know how little she actually knows about finance, I think I insulted Bugs whereas it now seems to me that he likely grasps a lot more about it than she does.
That's it for today folks.
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