Comedy gold: Maxine Waters grills Geithner on the secret Goldman Sachs cabal or something
posted at 7:03 pm on March 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Via Business Insider, celebrating the economic acuity of a politician who’s always good for a comic soundbite. Consider this a lesson in what happens when lawmakers get their news from HuffPo: She’s trying to ask Geithner whether Goldman Sachs alumni at Treasury are favoring the company, but in Waters-speak it turns into a jumbled series of questions about where, among others, Geithner’s “CEO” used to work. (I think she means Neel Kashkari.) Anyway, just watch his facial expressions. Our nation is in good hands, my friends.
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The new spelling for idiot = Maxine Waters.
Spiritk9 on March 24, 2009 at 7:54 PM
BobMbx on March 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Didn’t McKinney get voted out?
goat on March 24, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Are you sure Maxine Waters and Barrack Obama aren’t related? The Moron in the Senate and the Moron in Chief. Our country is in good hands.
lobo603 on March 24, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Sorry, the Moron in the House. It’s hard to tell with so many.
lobo603 on March 24, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Thimblerig.
MB4 on March 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM
lobo603 on March 24, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Waters is in the House not the Senate. And hey watch it with those moron slurs us Ace of Spaders don’t like be compared to them.
goat on March 24, 2009 at 8:00 PM
You know what? Bring Code Pink back in. They are less embarresing and more dignified than Maxine.
Congressional vaudville hook please.
RobCon on March 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Uggghh.
baldilocks on March 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Sorry…didn’t mean to slur any Ace of Spaders. I read Ace everyday. I should be calling Barack and Waters the Idiot in Chief and the Idiot of the House. Is that better?
lobo603 on March 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM
I can’t remember if HA ran the two clips of Waters last week, first, saying that Obama may not be “in the loop” on the AIG bonuses and, second, later announcing that Obama was now “in” the loop. It was an awesomely awesome display of total cluelessness. The White House must have had a fit after seeing the first clip because Maxy was singing a completely different tune in the second.
She’s an absolute dope.
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:06 PM
The “What the f*ck is this woman talking about” expression on Geithner’s face at the 2:00 minute mark is priceless.
Mike Honcho on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
i don’t think tim geithner is a bad guy. i do think tim went to work for the wrong guy; namely barry o’bama.
DrW on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
As stupid as she is, as ignorant, as foolish…she retains her seat with ease.
If you want to know why (and this will sound offensive, but we have to keep it concise) the black community has such a long hard road ahead of it…they keep electing fools like this to represent them. All you can do is just shake your head, in any kind of mixed company, to call her what she is, would label that person as a bigot, racist, blackophobe.
right2bright on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
You can be a “good” guy and incompetent…I just have a hard time with someone (the treasure of the U.S.) who says “Turbo Tax” is the reason I didn’t pay taxes.
right2bright on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
That’s better, us morons are just protective of our status as morons and our Moron in Chief Ace.
goat on March 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM
See what I mean? How dumb are you if you’re an African-American Democrat from Atlanta and lose an election?
BobMbx on March 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Ok from now B.O. is the Idiot in Chief.
lobo603 on March 24, 2009 at 8:20 PM
goat on March 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM
I just bookmarked you blog. Another on I will have to read daily.
lobo603 on March 24, 2009 at 8:22 PM
I agree. I’m just about to be unaware of a problem with Turbo Tax that reduces my tax owed for 2008 by an outrageous amount. My level of incompetence is directly related to how much I can benefit from it.
Look for me at the polls in 2012! I’m a shooh in for the Senate here in Virginia.
BobMbx on March 24, 2009 at 8:23 PM
The source of her question is the article by tabibi in Rolling Stone.
And I think she’s absolutely right on to ask about Goldman Sachs’s behind the scenes game-playing.
VinceP1974 on March 24, 2009 at 8:23 PM
lobo603 on March 24, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Thanks!
goat on March 24, 2009 at 8:28 PM
The letters of “Maxine Waters” can be rearranged to spell “We remix Satan.”
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 24, 2009 at 8:28 PM
She represents a coastal community in LA, Playa del Rey. To clarify, 35th doesn’t reach the beach, but it’s just a few blocks from it. Like any beachside city in SoCal it’s as white as you’re gonna get.
Apologetic California on March 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Did Geithner ask her how that $12M she wrote into TARP 1 for her neighborhood bank was working out?
Gohawgs on March 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Also “Me, antiwar sex.”
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Sadly, Geithner has the same expression whenever he’s telling Obama what he’s going to do with America and Obama tries to ask intelligent questions without TOTUS.
econavenger on March 24, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Yeah….I hear that Goldman Sachs actually controls the Bilderbergers, the Tri-Lateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Probably just a bunch of Jews anyway, right?
BobMbx on March 24, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Thanx a lot!!! I just ate…Oh well, I need to lose weight anyhow…
Gohawgs on March 24, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Mr Mojo Risin
29Victor on March 24, 2009 at 8:34 PM
29Victor on March 24, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I think I liked the one with Satan better.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 24, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Beat me to it… by 90 minutes.
Once more Maxine:
No, Goldman Sachs doesn’t run the economy. If they did, things would be a lot better. Yes, Al Qaeda was behind 9/11. And no foolin’, we really did land on the moon.
But you are right about Elvis – he’s being kept alive in a secret military medical facility – right next to the alien he captured in his swimming pool.
darkpixel on March 24, 2009 at 8:39 PM
The coveted and prestigious Most Unfit for Office award once again sees Maxine Waters in the running.
What a complete dunce. Oh but yes, she will be re-elected in a landslide.
Grafted on March 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Apologetic California on March 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM
That would be the area around Loyola University I gather. If I had to be represented by a Dem I would want Jane Harman over Waters for sure. Jane is actually semi-sane for a Dem.
goat on March 24, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Poor Tim. No one should have to listen to such idiocy.
I’d pay good money to see him say: “Ms Waters, you’re delusional.”, and then just get up and walk out.
sdillard on March 24, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Geithner’s gonna slam down more than one martini tonite.
whitetop on March 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Not sure I like this resolution of the dispute….
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM
I’m not a Jew-hater. I’m not an ALex Jones fan. He’s a nutcase. I’m a Christian-Zionist.
It never dawned on me that JEws controlled Goldman Sachs. Is that what you’re claiming? To criticize Sachs equates to Jew-bashing?
I think GS is right up there with Citigroup with its tentacles all over our fininicial system and government.
If you want to talk about teh Trilateral Commision that’s your problem… don’t foist it on me, ass.
VinceP1974 on March 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM
To move her off the Goldman-Sachs fixation, he should have said, “Congresswoman, don’t move! There’s a poisonous spider in your hair.”
whitetop on March 24, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM
LOL, I guess we need to get out our thesauruses to find the right word that hasn’t been coopted to use when describing our ????? in Chief.
goat on March 24, 2009 at 9:00 PM
You’ve got it backwards. You need to do some serious research.
As for Jews, its more along the lines of an Anglo-American empire ala the British Empire of the 1800’s.
Also, since you seem focused on Jews whenever anyone mentions banking cartels, I’ll make sure to point out that Barack Obama is black anytime you criticize him. :)
True_King on March 24, 2009 at 9:02 PM
This is the government Tim Geithner wanted, so drink this cup to the bitter end, you statist tool.
greggriffith on March 24, 2009 at 9:02 PM
There is someone trying to take her on. Meet Ted Hayes: homeless advocate, vehement anti-illegal-immigration activist, and Rastafarian Republican. Candidate for Congress opposing incumbent Maxine Waters.
Hayes received 13% of the vote to Maxine’s 84% but got 10 times the number of votes per campaign dollar spent as Maxine did. Coincidentally, he appears to be 10 times as intelligent as she is, also.
He probably will run again as there appears to be no one else ready or willing to attempt to oppose the Waters Juggernaut in that district from the Republican side.
Edouard on March 24, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Don’t waste your time on him, it’s just a card that conservatives pull out whenever anyone brings up the banking cartel or the Rothschilds. Much like liberals like to pull out the racism/homophobe/sexist card. Just remember to respond “Is it because he’s black?” whenever they criticize Obama.
That’s just to remind them how much they hate it when the race card is played on them. :)
True_King on March 24, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Then why not any questions about Citi, or Morgan Stanley, or BofA? Surely all these firms’ fingerprints are just as present on the Bailout/TARP as Goldman Sachs.
I’m not saying it is Jew bashing… just that it sure as hell sounds a lot like Jew bashing.
JohnGalt23 on March 24, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Are you saying she’s dumb because she’s black? Be careful, someone might pull out the race card.
True_King on March 24, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Obama bashing sounds like what? Come on, let’s see if you can guess.
True_King on March 24, 2009 at 9:08 PM
This woman is such a phucking moron, it’s beyond comprehension that she is a sitting member of Congress.
D2Boston on March 24, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Priceless. She is … confused.
Gaunilon on March 24, 2009 at 9:10 PM
wow. i actually feel sorry for geithner. is that wrong?
birdman on March 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM
I want a refund on my 3:15!!!
christene on March 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Although thankfully not in a hearing, it is hard to top our local Congresswoman Corrine Brown and her homage to the Univ. of Florida Gators. At best those tributes are silly but Rep. Brown raises the bar from cringe to shudder.
Cindy Munford on March 24, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Maxine Waters is one of the smartest Democrats in government.
__________
RJGatorEsq. on March 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I am pretty sure you just insulted a lot of people.
Cindy Munford on March 24, 2009 at 9:18 PM
I forget what hearings it was, but this same committee was meeting a couple of months ago, and were grilling Ben Bernanke. Maxine started talking some kind of weird nonsense, and Bernanke looked straight at her, and said “I don’t know what you are talking about”.
It was then I realized that, in DC, when someone says to a Member of Congress “I don’t know what you are talking about”, they are really saying “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
JohnGalt23 on March 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I felt bad for him too. I believe the testimony is under oath and having to try to follow along to whatever Maxine is spinning could totally lead to some sort of unforced error and then perjury.
myrenovations on March 24, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Affirmative Action Fail.
She actually made me feel compassion for Geithner. Impossible task.
carbon_footprint on March 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Maxine Waters grilling Geithner is the idiot questioning the incompetent.
Who do you root for in this cage match of the cranial- challenged?
Mister Ghost on March 24, 2009 at 9:32 PM
When you look up idiot in the dictionary, it has a picture of her.
Maxx on March 24, 2009 at 9:38 PM
That crazy lady was at a acorn meeting before Obama was voted in ..she said she would get him in office Who would a thunk (sarc) She is a scary lady!!:(
beachkatie on March 24, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Comedy Gold.
ebrawer on March 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
I guess some of you didn’t get the memo, morons and idiots are tired of being compared to this mentally challenged individual.
goat on March 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
What do you mean “chance”?
Its all abuse.
Count to 10 on March 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Maxoine Waters makes Turbo Timmy look like he knows what he is doing
gonnjos on March 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
fify
Mojack420 on March 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
The race card got burned back in November. No longer can blacks use racism or slavery as an excuse for their social position. Every time you hear “white man holding the black man down…just lift up a photo of The One. Argument over.
Unless, and maybe it’s so, whitey finally had enough and voted in a token black just to end the whining.
It’s one or the other.
BobMbx on March 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
If you know anything about the bailouts you’d know that Goldman Sachs has made out quite differently from any other financial entity and also happens to have their alumni in charge of US policy for years.
And that has something to do with the Jewish faith because? You seem to think Goldman Sachs is just a bunch of Jooooos. Why is that? What’s your source? So, if Goldman is determined to have run a major financial scam on US taxpayers, you’re saying we need to blame the Jews?
Please explain your logic.
econavenger on March 24, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Hey, why not? I mean, what better way to ease the years of oppression against the Arabs, eh? Let’s blame the Jews for the financial mess (why not..the sterotype already exists), mention that they’re also the reason for the unending wars in the Middle East….we’re certainly to get in good with the Islamists, right? Hey, maybe they’ll even not want to cut our heads off anymore.
BobMbx on March 24, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Primary challenge?
Count to 10 on March 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Good freakin grief! She really needs to stick with providing concessions for her Husbands career.
oakpack on March 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM
How so? Are you suggesting they got a sweetheart deal, better than that of BofA or Morgan? From what I’ve followed of the crisis, BofA seems like the most likely target of opprobrium with the Merrill deal, which i understand was sort of dicey. Did Goldman Sachs also have a similar deal?
Because unlike Morgan Stanley, Citi and other old money financial institutions usually associated with WASPism, Goldman Sachs is often, fairly or unfairly, associated with large Jewish money. My experience is that when one wants to paint Wall Street bankers as tools of the Zionist conspiracy, Goldman is most frequently the name that comes up. And frankly, that was exactly what I heard coming out of waters’ mouth today.
JohnGalt23 on March 24, 2009 at 10:06 PM
She is seriously (trying) to ask Geithner if treasury alum is favoring Goldman Sachs?
Is/Did Congress favor BankOne (Maxine Waters husband was on the Board, she has $500,00 in stocks) with TARP money?
Maxine Waters is the Congressional Idiot Caucus leader.
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Goldman-Sachs is to Jew
as
Tyrone is to Black
BobMbx on March 24, 2009 at 10:16 PM
What is it with these libs, Ginns, Goober (sorry..”Mr. President”),now Waters? They have their own damn vocabulary…”aaa, uhhh, mmmm, amuhhh” Maybe it`s a secret code or aaa sumthin?
NY Conservative on March 24, 2009 at 10:22 PM
aaa…ummm I meant GIBBS not Ginns
NY Conservative on March 24, 2009 at 10:22 PM
What language is this woman speaking?
d1carter on March 24, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Maxine Waters 35th congressional district demographics:
10.4% White,
34.1% Black,
5.6% Asian,
47.4% Hispanic,
0.2% Native American,
0.2% other
sirpatrick on March 24, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Right, LOL, you can tell she just wants to yell, IT’S THE JOOOOS!!!!
PattyJ on March 24, 2009 at 10:28 PM
In answer to an earlier challenge to name the dumbest member of Congress I mentioned this video and thankfully Cindy posted her name so I could find it. This lady makes Maxine look very articulate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2gIsUCDDfI
goat on March 24, 2009 at 10:32 PM
The fox guarding the henhouse.
Johan Klaus on March 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Are you sure Maxine Waters and Barrack Obama aren’t related? The Moron in the Senate and the Moron in Chief. Our country is in good hands.
lobo603 on March 24, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Cripples could do a better job…
RealDemocrat on March 24, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Mosrly RoastBeefers in her district eh?
RealDemocrat on March 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Maxine Waters….OMG, can we say term limits?
YES WE CAN!
ex-Democrat on March 24, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Goldman Sachs is an investment bank nothing like BofA and the financial benefits each got are light years apart.
I’ve listened to many serious people over the years who not only saw this crisis coming, but predicted the current secondary scam that Paulson, Kashkari, Geithner et al are pulling now as a solution to benefit the most powerful investment banks and hedge funds. The standard banks are insolvent and being used for the shell game.
But not once over the years have I heard anyone with any credibility say it was Jewish conspiracy. In fact, they often explain how it’s nothing like back when that meme got started, so callers understand that stupidity doesn’t fly on the investment program.
This is all simply a legalized siphoning of the US Treasury by people with the big money who were thus in a position to make even bigger money risk-free by controlling policy and buying the politicians with sweetheart deals. Obama and the Dems are supposedly in charge, and they have to pretend to be smart, but not one of them has any clue about global finance. Primarily it’s Goldman Sachs and F.O.G.S. calling the shots now.
That’s why no staff is on board at Treasury yet, because it’s not about the most sensible policy for America at the moment. Geithner doesn’t want outside interference or people who can tell the story later. We all know that by now, but we’re still in denial. It’s about the big $$$ covering monstrous bets and getting the liquidity from taxpayers to make more huge bets now on a false recovery that will be managed by the people placing the bets. Then they get out and the pyramid collapses on your kids.
Obama just has to lay off of Geithner, say what he’s told on his teleprompter and look busy playing mini-Chavez with Health Care, etc.
econavenger on March 24, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Here is Maxine Water’s greatest “success” story: King Drew to close.
I can’t wait to see what she does with the other industries she wants to take over.
PattyJ on March 24, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Last I knew she was on some boat getting shot at by the Isreali Navy. Heh Water’s should join her.
boomer on March 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Geithner must have been so happy, he came out looking like a genius.
Maxine Waters should be the poster child for removing affirmative action. She can’t be qualified to serve me soup how does she have power?
Rbastid on March 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Sometimes you don’t know who to cheer for.
Why would anyone want to entrust greater regulatory power to either Timmy the Tool Geithner or Maxine Tinfoil Hat Waters.
blackrepublican on March 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM
She doesn’t want to hear answers. She just wants to appear intelligent. If I were Geitner, I’d resign.
bloggless on March 24, 2009 at 11:39 PM
That almost made Geithner seem like a sympathetic figure. For a minute there you could see the wheels in his head spinning…..I think he may have for just a moment been embarrased to be a member of the same political party as Rep. Waters.
t.ferg on March 24, 2009 at 11:49 PM
She’s considered a genius in Watts and the Stephanie Miller Show. She’s like a talking chimpanzee. It’s very impressive.
mr1216 on March 24, 2009 at 11:52 PM
The look on the face of the guy behind her (looks like a staffer) is one of “I can’t believe I’m working FOR this moron!”
AZfederalist on March 24, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Me, too.
Why do so many Blacks dislike the Joos?
jgapinoy on March 25, 2009 at 12:07 AM
…by that I mean,
in my life I’ve only met a few anti-Semites in person, & almost all of them are Black.
jgapinoy on March 25, 2009 at 12:09 AM
“Ladies and gentlemen, yooouuuuuur Democratic Party!”
If I were Geithner, I would’ve roasted her ignorant ass.
ddrintn on March 25, 2009 at 12:22 AM
acornedIFY
soundingboard on March 25, 2009 at 12:40 AM
Well I want to make it clear that I don’t equate Jews and Goldman Sachs and I think it’s completely ignorant to say that being suspicious of GS is the same thng as ginning up some Jewish Conspiracy.
It’s not even a secret as to the exceptional nature of GS in our power and money systems. It’s all there in the open for anyone willing to recognize it.
VinceP1974 on March 25, 2009 at 12:48 AM
At the 4:30 mark she catches herself, but she almost says “F&^%ing”
She’s so dumb!!!!! Gawd help us.
Topsecretk9 on March 25, 2009 at 12:48 AM
oops, make that 3:30 mark
Topsecretk9 on March 25, 2009 at 12:50 AM
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