Bessent Keeps His Cool as Waters Tries (and Fails) to Belittle, Outsmart Him
Well, at least Waters can brag that she’s better at the Electric Slide than Bessent because, well, that’s it.
I do not hide my admiration for the Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He’s intelligent, well-spoken, and easy on the eyes!
Bessent also has a sense of humor…unlike Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). I’m not shocked.
Bessent had a hearing before the House Committee on Financial Services, of which Waters is the ranking member.
Waters thought the hearing was the first time the two had met. Bessent reminded her that they had met before, and Waters, of course, had to take a dig at him:
WATERS:Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Secretary Bessent. This is the first time we’ve met.
BESSENT: Is that correct? No, ma’am. We actually met one New Year’s Eve in the Bahamas.
WATERS: He didn’t make any impressions. Why don’t I remember that?
BESSENT: Well, you were much better at the electric slide than I was. And I was with the prime minister of the Bahamas yesterday. Prime Minister Davis, who sent his regards.
WATERS: Well, were you with my husband when he was the Ambassador to the Bahamas appointed by Clinton?
BESSENT: So.
WATERS: Well, you’re not going to like this. And so this is the first…uh, didn’t remember that, uh, but that’s odd because you’ve been at Treasury and I’ve sent you five letters to ask about what was going on under your leadership, and only received a couple of cursory replies from your staff. Why didn’t you respond?
BESSENT: Ma’am?
WATERS: I guess you don’t know why you didn’t respond.
.@RepMaxineWaters: "This is the first time we've met, is that correct?"@SecScottBessent: "No, ma'am. We actually met one New Year's Eve in the Bahamas."
Rep. Waters: "Why don't I remember that?"
Sec. Bessent: "You were much better at the electric slide than I was." pic.twitter.com/vwq2CpI3eC
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 7, 2025
How do you forget an encounter with Bessent? Also, why so rude? Did Waters think it made her look important that her husband served as ambassador under former President Bill Clinton?
Gee…I wonder how he got that position. Waters has been in office since 1991.
Oh, it gets worse…for Waters.
Waters knows for sure that non-Treasury Departments had access to sensitive information. She knows DOGE employees have all the access, even though DOGE employees do not exist.
Of course, Waters had to keep interrupting Bessent because he would prove her wrong:
WATERS: Do you know the level, type, or nature of the clearances and security training required for individuals to access the information held in the computers of Treasury, IRS, or CFPB?
BESSENT: Yes, I do, and I think we would have a disagreement over the definition of the word unfettered.
WATERS: Mr. Secretary, did all the individuals working with DOGE who were given access to Treasury and CFPB’s computer databases receive all of the required clearances and security training before they were granted access?
BESSENT: Again, they were granted read-only access at Treasury. There were two —
WATERS: So, let me just say —
BESSENT: — two — two DOGE employees —
WATERS: — please, you can’t filibuster here. This is not the filibuster playground. And so, what you did was you let these strangers into our Treasury with access to all of the data, all of the personnel information, and you just opened the door. Why did you do that?
BESSENT: No, ma’am, they — they were Treasury employees.
WATERS: Are you saying today in front of this committee, that all of them were Treasury employees? That the 25 year old who’s being identified who worked for Elon Musk was not allowed, was allowed into the Treasury? Was that person there?
BESSENT: He was a Treasury employee, as was Tom Krause, the senior person on the DOGE team. There were only two people…
WATERS: There were DOGE employees also…
BESSENT: Sorry?
WATERS: Do you know, were you aware that there were DOGE employees coming into our Treasury, getting all of our personal information,
BESSENT: Ma’am, there is no such thing as a DOGE employee. They were Treasury employees.
Maxine Waters is a clown.
WATERS: "You let these strangers into our Treasury with access to all of the data…"
BESSENT: "No, ma'am. They were Treasury employees." 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/FDNVr87W1l
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 7, 2025
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Angry black grifting racist waters couldn’t outsmart a Turnip.
You just gotta keep pushing back on ’em, pushing and pushing, and telling them, “You’re not welcome here.”
Heckler’s Veto is a prelude to a new tea party event that the left won’t like.
This vile, obnoxious, infantile, self-enriching hustler and parasite has been grifting from the public trough since 1991.
Nice work, if you can get it.
Since 1977, actually. She served 14 years in the state assembly before moving to the House.
As for “nice work if you can get it”, she’s repeatedly done something most of us can’t: convincing the majority of voters in a district to vote for you. Huge majorities in her case. Mostly north of 80%, both in primaries and in general elections. That qualifies her to wield the power she does, and reap the perks. Including making busy and productive people like Bessent waste their time coming to answer her questions.
“As for “nice work if you can get it”, ….” As we are such sticklers for details, the period and comma always go inside the close quote (single or double). The colon and semicolon always go outside the close quote, and the exclamation point and question mark placement is context-dependent. E.g., She asked, “Where are you going?” Why did she say, “I’m going home”?
You follow your style manual, I’ll follow mine. I think yours makes no sense. A comma only goes inside the quotes if it’s part of the quote. A period only goes inside the quotes if you’re quoting a complete sentence.
My thinking couldn’t out debate a stack of bricks.
But think she thinks she is a intellectual.
Layoff turnips, they have done nothing to you
To a battle of wits, Maxine comes unarmed.
I saw parts of that. What a complete clown she is.
There was also the exchange with Rep Gregory Meeks
Of particular note was when Bessent implied to Rep Meeks that Biden wasn’t all there. The bald lady gave him the stink-eye and Meeks melted down…
I think it was Ayanna Pressley
She’d better never fall asleep in Congress.
There are at least eight Republicans itching for a chance to magic-marker an “8” on her head.
LTFOL
When you said “bald lady” — altho you clearly misspoke using the word “lady”, at least by any definition I’ve heard in my 53 years — I knew what, and whom, you meant.
Heretofore I propose Pressley, when not referenced by name or title, be distinguished by more complete and accurate description: say,
“Bald African Racist Female”, or “BARF”, for short.
IT
COULD
WORK!
—Dr Fronkensteen, 1974
https://filmschoolrejects.com/23-things-we-learned-from-the-young-frankenstein-commentary-e48374ac425/
Aka: The Boston Milk Dud
shes a credit to her
empty head space
Waters couldn’t outsmart a broken toaster.
Not merely a clown, Waters is an 🫏🤡.
Though given this little portion of the exchange, I can see the opposite spin being put on left-perspective blog post:
WATERS: So, let me just say —
BESSENT: — two — two DOGE employees —
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So there ARE DOGE employees, then. If not, why did you say that, Mr. Secretary?
Alas, we’ll never know since Mad Max didn’t let him finish
Bessent was battling at wits with an unarmed opponent.
He didn’t respond because you’re a busybody idiot that sticks their bloody nose into things that aren’t any of your fecking business and have no right to demand to know. And everyone knows it.
Except that they are her business, since Congress has oversight of the executive.
Jasmine Crockett is Maxine Waters’ mini me….. Beware!
Having a battle of wits with Maxine seems especially one-sided since her IQ is rarely above room temperature.
I had to check my calendar to see if it was April 1 after reading the headline.
Midwit Auntie Maxine trying to outsmart anyone is hilarious.
A 1 pound box of roofing nails has a higher IQ than Max.