Many members of the US congress are clueless about the world they live in, and often misinformed about what’s happening in their own backyards. They run with fake news headlines or with whatever is provided to them via the teleprompter. Sometimes, however, these things backfire and their cluelessness is exposed bare for all of us to enjoy.
Impeach Donald Trump because he was working with Russian President Vladimir Putin to brand Hillary Clinton as “Crooked Hillary”, and thus propel Trump to the White House.
This is how crazy the Democrat party’s “Russia did it” narrative is becoming. We now have Putin in the role of “marketing and branding guru.”
MSNBC and other “fake news” main stream media channels are eating this sh** up.
Maxine Moore Waters is the U.S. Representative for California’s 43rd congressional district, and previously the 35th and 29th districts, serving since 1991.
I spent yesterday morning watching-- and tweeting about-- the House Financial Services Committee "examination" of Wells Fargo's crooked CEO John Stumpf. Exasperating! Without an Elizabeth Warren or an Alan Grayson, these kinds of hearings don't shed much light on anything.
"They talked a lot about the benefits, and how much they were going to invest in Time Warner Cable and improve the service it provided, but every time you talked about industry consolidation and the incentive they would have to leverage their market power to hurt competition, they gave us unsatisfactory answers."-- an unnamed senior Senate staff aide, quoted by the NYT's Eric Lipton regarding Comcast's massive lobbying efforts for its takeover of Time Warner Cable"No amount of publi
Just 12 banks control almost 70% of total bank assets. This week at a Banking Committee hearing, Elizabeth Warren grilled Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about capping the size of the Too Big To Fail banks. He danced around her questions and sounds as full of crap as any GOP bank shill who's looking forward to his future on Wall Street. Notice in Lew's weasely, misleading answers he says "we" shouldn't do anything because we're in the middle of implementing Dodd-Frank.
