Posted on 03/23/2010 9:51:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rep. Maxine Waters Calls Protesters 'Teabaggers' California congresswoman claims their side overcame tea party movement efforts to derail health care reform legislation.
By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 3/23/2010 11:59:40 AM
Is it too much to ask for a member of Congress to show a little grace after a major legislative victory and not resort back to the lowest common denominator?
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who in 2008 made her own socialist Freudian slip, couldn’t handle that. In an appearance on HLN’s March 22 “The Joy Behar Show,” Waters expressed her jubilation over the House of Representative vote on health care reform on March 21.
“I was very pleased. It was truly a historic moment and I almost couldn`t believe it was happening,” Waters said. “It was surreal that all of a sudden it all came together after a year of debate and many times thinking it would never happen.”
And all this happened despite the best efforts of the tea party efforts to convince members of Congress there would be repercussions for voting on a bill that public opinion wasn’t in line with, or as Waters referred to them as “the teabaggers.”
“Thinking that the teabaggers out there had influenced a lot of people and had caused them to be on the ‘no’ side, and when it finally happened, I thought, my God, this certainly is historic,” Waters said. “This is a moment in history that will be remembered for a long time.”
The “teabagger” euphemism was made famous by MSNBC at the height of tea party rallies. Urbandictionary.com, cited multiple times by one of those MSNBC guests, describes it as when a man places his testicles “onto someone’s face, or into their mouth.”
Waters’ comment also comes on the heels of media complaints about the tea party protests and claims offensive things were said by protesters.
More and more this “tea bagger” stuff and the portrayal of the Tea Party in general is looking like name calling by the stereotypical bratty-highschool-most-popular-elite that we left way behind.
I think a lot of us are at the point where we are saying, “ not only have I been out of high school and college for a long time, I am currently weighing my life’s worth with respect to this damned calling to fight for liberty and the ideas as set forth in the Constitution, and your insipid name calling, while it is oddly muted and mildly humourous, is dually noted .”
Press on good Patriots. The demogogues, media-whores, and politicans are so awash in luxury and money they are like rotting pears, soft, squishy and covered with bees and hornets.
It has become abhorent to even bend down to throw one out.
I forgot that! D’OH! (Homer’s voice)
I have thre of Maxine’s constituents who work for my company and even they say that they can’t stand her...
I call her a Commie Socialist Maggot, does that make it even?
Is your Google broken?
Shut up Maxine! There are plenty of offices that still need cleaning.
California’s voters are idiots, electing Bella and Maxi to their Communist Party. Thanks a lot. Now bankrupt California, drop into the Pacific.
Plus she is ugly as sin...
Hey, Maxine...
The teabaggers are here, so open wide!
Yup if one uses the n word its a big f ing deal
Oooh, not what his Marxist instructors at Columbia had in mind! lol
Did he ever apologize?
Did Speaker Pelosi, so jealous of House decorum, have his words taken down?
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