Dim Bulb: Rep. Maxine Waters

Published September 5, 2011 4:00am ET



WHO: Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. WHAT: On Sunday she declared that what the country needs is “a jobs program of a trillion dollars or more. We’ve got to put Americans to work. That’s the only way to revitalize this economy.”

WHY IT’S DIM: Didn’t we already try something like this? Has it revitalized the economy?

CURE: Don’t let your ideology make you ignore the past.