Maxine Waters - Idiot Liberal

Maxine Waters is a member of the United States House of Representatives in California’s 35th district and one of this blogs liberal idiots. Granted, Ms. Waters was only recently brought to our attention with her views on the socialization of the oil industry (I will go into that later), however, a query into her past reveals a plethora of incidents that rightly justify her on our list.

First things first, anyone that is an adamant supporter of Jesse Jerkson err Jackson’s presidential bid is obviously lacking a few brain cells. In fact, Waters was Jesse Jackson's most vocal backer in both the 1984 and 1988 presidential races and was his campaign manager in the latter. In an article for the Nation, Waters wrote: "The Democrats cannot win the presidency without us and without Jackson and others who will work for the party." Obviously we don’t have a re-incarnated Nostradamus here.

She later popped up on the national radar during the L.A. Riots of 1990. Is it me or are we sensing the race card here? Seems that Ms. Waters loves to come out of hiding anytime an issue of race rears its ugly head. Getting back to the riots, however, Waters excoriated the urban policies of President Bush and former President Reagan and even went as far to make the remark that the riots were “the voice of the unheard." In a scathing editorial the conservative National Review claimed she was trying to shift the blame for the riots from the rioters to everybody and everything else and in the process was giving tacit permission to riot again.

Being in Chicago, we are familiar with what is known as the Chicago machine. This includes everything from corruption to nepotism. Speaking of nepotism, Waters has also been involved in these allegations. Maybe she should consider a change of scenery from her California roots? Apparently, her grandson, Mikael Moore, is also her Chief of Staff and Press Secretary. Even though he claims to call her “Congresswoman” and swears that he never once called her grandmother! Gotta love it!

Finally, and most importantly, there was the incident that occurred in May of 2008 in which Waters told Shell Oil President John Hofmeister at the House Judiciary Committee's Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, that if he did not guarantee reduced gasoline prices in exchange for Congress allowing the oil industry to drill where it wished, she would favor socializing American petroleum companies (see the video below f0r proof). In a widely reported exchange, she stated: "Guess what this liberal will be all about, this liberal will be all about socializing....taking over and the government running all of your companies.” Seriously, you cannot make this stuff up.

This blogger doesn’t believe Ms. Waters is a socialist or that she is even necessarily a mean person, this blogger just believes that Ms. Waters is a flaming idiot.