Scenes from the DC Tea Party: Round One

The Washington, D.C. tea party is underway! Several hundred intrepid protesters turned out in the rain to voice their opposition to taxes, bailouts, the Obama administration, the Federal Reserve and a slew of other political issues. TWI’s Dave Weigel will have full coverage of the event later this afternoon, More…

Waters Defends Her ‘Advocacy for Minority Owned Banks’

Via Glenn Thrush at Politico, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is lashing out at recent reports revealing a bailout meeting she facilitated between Treasury Department officials and a minority-owned bank, in which her husband was a former board member and owned hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock.

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Why America Mistrusts Congress

Here’s Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) last week criticizing the banks — and the lawmakers beholden to the banks — after controversial changes were made to a House housing bill: “These guys rule this place,” she said of the finance industry, according to The Associated Press.

And here’s The New More…