How far backward can you bend before you fall on your butt?

The House Ethics Committee is drawing to a close on the ethics charges against Maxine Waters....  you remember her - she's the one that threatened to "socialize' all the oil companies during committee hearings..... and her fellow Dims damned near fell out of their chairs laughing. 

Anyway -- the long-long-long hearings regarding her steering federal money to a bank her hubby is involved with are coming to an end.   But I read with interest that despite the fact that the Ethics Committee is comprised of five GOP and five Dems, just to keep it fair, that: "Last February, all five Republicans on the committee and the panel's ranking Democrat withdrew from the case to avoid any questions about impartiality."

Now Pilgrims, I don't know if they withdrew because they saw it as a slam dunk even without their votes - or this was a typical show of congressional cowardice in the face of potential criticism.  Either way -- it is pretty damned weak.  

BTW, with limp wristed Barney Frank 'retiring', if the Dims take over the House, Ms Waters will Chair the vaunted Financial Service Committee!!!!!  How scary is that? 

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