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Posts Tagged ‘maxine waters’

LAKERS VS. MAGIC

Congresswomen Waters And Brown Go Nuts Over Basketball

Monday, June 8th, 2009


Hey nerds how much do you love NBA Finals season, hmmm? Feast your eyes on this cute thing, which involves two political ladies trash-talking over their basketball teams. Maxine Waters won’t even shake her friend’s hand, that is how serious she is about this dispute. [The YouTube]


OUR COURAGEOUS AMERICAN LEADERS

A Children’s Treasury Of Wacky Depressing Clips From Today’s Geithner-Bernanke Hearing

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Earlier we showed Barney Frank yelling at the goddamn Code Pink hippies on multiple occasions, but what else happened during this latest 94-hour grandstanding spectacle of a House Financial Services Committee hearing? Why the economy got saved, of course! Ha ha. (Kill us.) America’s C-SPAN watchers did, however, get to see such luminaries as Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Maxine Waters confuse and/or irritate the hell out of Geithner and Bernanke (mostly Geithner — he scowls!) Plus there was this crazy guy from Illinois whom Bernanke shot down during a rare burst of self-confidence. Hooray for Congress! Burn it! MORE »