Re: Rep. Maxine Waters’ Telling the Tea Party Where to Go
With all the conviction of a traveling preacher, and a bought and paid for audience, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) made sure her constituents understood that any conversation of a “New Tone” or “Civility” was meant solely for the political right, and would have no bearing on her, nor her devotees.
As Alexis wroter ealier, at a forum in Inglewood, CA, supposedly created to address the ever growing problem of unemployment in California – which is now at 12%, second highest in the Nation (2nd to Nevada at 12.9%) and significantly higher than the nation average – Rep. Waters told those in attendance that she was not afraid of a fight.
“I’m not afraid of anybody,” said Waters. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to hell.”
The crowd, according to The Daily Caller, peppered with purple SEIU t-shirts, cheered wildly after the statement (the video from The Daily Caller corroborates this statement.) Problem is, the Tea Party has nothing to do with unemployment. The Tea Party has nothing to do with California having a Democrat-controlled House, Senate and Governor that pushes tax increases (and we’re not happy about that, either!) The Tea Party has nothing to do with Rep. Water’s voting record, and her desire for Socialism in America.
Saying the Tea Party can go to hell might get you a lot of cheers, but it gets you a lot of cheers from a group of ill-informed lackies who won’t do the hard work of asking themselves (to quote David Byrne) “How Did I Get Here?” Questions like that would lead them, if they are honest with themselves, to the reality that governmental polices (state and federal) that encourage high taxation and low growth, that over-regulate and undervalue the individual and that put far too much power in the hand of unions, not job creators, leads to high unemployment and a bad future.
The Tea Party stands opposed to those kinds of bureaucratic nightmares. The Tea Party has done more to help the American people than Rep. Waters has ever done for her country, never mind her constituents. The Tea Party pushes people to recognize the inconsistencies in our elected officials, to value hard work, to force conversations that are tough and hard and messy while not giving up on the Constitution (which some elected leaders have chosen to do.) Rep. Waters pushes her constituents to hate. In this case, the Tea Party.
Gov. Rick Perry was lambasted for his words on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. But we will hear very little from the administration about the violent words of Rep. Waters. No one person speaks for the Tea Party, but if there was one thought, it would go like this – Rep. Waters, we don’t want you to go hell. We just want you to go away. What you do with the time off, or where you go, is totally up to you.
You make a good spokesman for the tea party.
Steve, I agree with you 100%. Maxine, don’t you realize that the
tea Party is grassroot, NOT a party. If you want to go against the American people, so be it. I hope and pray you lose your job in 2012!.
I prefer that the Tea Party continue without a spokesman.
Instead of yelling at an individual, Waters is telling the American Middle Class to go to hell. We get the message load and clear.
Maxine, you better hope we don’t go to hell. If we did, who would you clowns steal from?
The only Maxine Waters Attack that matters was her attack on Obama at Wayne State University in Detroit last week.
On August 17, she unilaterally withdrew the Congressional Black Caucus’ endorsement of “the black president.”
And her declaration was loudly endorsed by her midwestern Black audience with wild cheers.
After a few phone calls, Maxine likely realized what she had done, but it was too late…
Ah, civility!
Yeah – Rep. Waters is a regular Audie Murphy in the courage department. It takes real guts to make completely bogus (and irrelevant) insults about the Tea Party in front of a bunch of government employees and people who want nothing ore than to be government employees. She really has brass ones! I will be more impressed with her bravery if she ever decides to answer the ethics charges currently pending against her.
California must qualify as the world’s largest insane asylum. They’re going broke, they’re being strangled to death by their unions, business is fleeing the state as if it has anthrax, Mexican drug gangs control large swaths of Los Angeles, the state prison system is about to release 43,000 inmates and the tax base is going to hell. The Democrats have controlled the state legislature since forever yet all of this is the Tea Party’s fault. It’s completely nuts!
I’m an American citizen and taxpayer. All my working life, I’ve worked in the private sector (and worked like a dog, FWIW). Through my taxes, I contribute to the salary of Maxine Waters and the staggering perks she enjoys via her office, perks which I don’t have and will never have. I’m also a Tea Partier.
She just told ME to go to hell.
You stay classy, Maxine. I’m a better American than you could ever hope to be. As for destinations beyond … we’ll see which one of us has a toasty warm spot waiting for them when the roll is called up yonder.
There is a girl who trolls people, she is from the tea party:
http://tinyurl.com/3u5ufse
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,
but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)
What, never watched Jay Leno?
This is a surprising statement, coming from a liberal who believes in strict separation of church and state. Is she actually suggesting that all people of a political view or party or faction should be transported by the government to hell? This to me sounds like it may violate the 1st amendment, right?
I’d prefer the Tea Party to go straight to college, where they’d find out how economics have advanced past their beloved 1800′s Austria, and that Ayn Rand isn’t an actual philosopher.
Take your smary know-it-all crap and shove it. I’ve had Marco economics as an undergraduate and graduate student. Only the most biased economics student is going to claim our “stimulation” of the economy is anything but a failure. The same massive failure we experienced in the 30′s as opposed to the Austrian success we experienced in the 20′s.
Government spending is economic drag.
Seems there are Economists out there who don’t worship at the altar of Keynes and Marx.
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/22/survey-economists-prefer-spending-cuts-over-obamas-balanced-approach-to-debt-reduction/
The Tea Party is simply asking for a return to limited, Constitutional government, so in essence Waters isn’t saying to hell with the Tea Party, she’s saying to hell with the Constitution which is the only thing that keeps her and the socialists from running rough shod over the people.
Not a socialist, you say? Remember her statements about taking over the oil companies back in 2008?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrA9zj94NuU&feature=related
She’s opposes the Constitution even though she took an oath to preserve, protect and defend it, with her fingers crossed.
Who is the big bad ‘woof’?