Posted on 09/22/2011 12:13:56 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rep. Waters urges Obama to drop nice-guy act and fight Republicans, Tea Party By Mike Lillis - 09/22/11 02:46 PM ET
It’s time for President Obama to quit watching sports and drinking beer with his political opponents in the hope it will lead to a bipartisan agreement, Rep. Maxine Waters said Thursday.
The outspoken California Democrat needs to fight harder against the GOP and Tea Party and for Democratic policy priorities, outspoken Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said Thursday.
“He's been very nice about it,” Waters said of Obama’s budget negotiations with Republicans.
“He's been on the other side of the aisle talking with people. He's invited them up to the White House to have beer. He's invited them to come and watch the Super Bowl games.
“He's done all of that, and when they eat his food and drink his beer and leave, then they go and try to kill him [on Capitol Hill],” she told an audience gathered for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual legislative conference in Washington.
“You've gotta fight – you will not win this battle without fighting,” she added.
Obama already has taken a tougher partisan tone in speeches this month, and he proposed large tax hikes on the wealthy this week to cheers from liberals.
But Waters said she and other liberal Democrats still want to see the president do more and believe that by fighting the GOP he can be successful. She also suggested questions remain about whether Obama will keep fighting for liberal priorities when the going gets tough.
“We love the president. We want him to be successful,” Waters said. “But does he feel our pain? Does he understand what's going on out here?”
Waters, a prominent member of the CBC, said she's encouraged by Obama's new proposal to create jobs and rein in deficit spending. But she also warned that the group will be watching closely as the negotiations evolve.
“We're pleased that the president has a jobs proposal. Now we have to trace it and to track it. … because strange things happen in the legislative process. We don't want this to end up being just a tax-cut deal only,” she said.
“I love the president,” she added, “but I will ask the president where's the money.”
Waters suggested the black community needs to become more involved if it wants Washington lawmakers to notice, for instance, that the recession hit minority communities much harder than it did white populations.
“We have got to show up. The Tea Party shows up. The Tea Party intimidates everybody,” she said. “We have to show people that we have no fear. Don't mistake the silence for intimidation.”
Waters generated headlines last month when she said the Tea Party “can go straight to hell.”
On Thursday, she wasn't apologizing.
“Yes, I was displayed in national media telling them where to go,” she said. “And I mean that.”
Who says race baiting doesn't pay? Maxine is still in Washington, running her mouth.
He should make up a web site to report all of the lies about Obama’s policies. Then give it a creepy web design and call it Attackwatch.
Uh, OK, but she needs to stop her race-baiting, kill-whitey, bank-robbing, stupid-cow act too.
“...I will ask the president where’s the money.”
Give me da money!
He needs to take her advice and make her his campaign manager!
You won’t like it when REAL whites (as opposed to the cowardly, self-hating “progressives” you’ve been pushing around for decades), FINALLY fight back against your arrogant, thieving racism, Waters.
Not one bit.
“The outspoken California Democrat, (snip) outspoken Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) “
She’s from the Outspoken Department of Outspoken Redundancy Department!
As long as he doesn’t drop his dumb-guy act. Oh, wait...It isn’t an act.
I just have a feeling that Mrs. Waters is not going to enjoy her next life.
I can’t help it - when I look at that picture, all I see is what Howdy Doody grew up to look like.
That was my question, too. Obama has never been “nice” about the GOP in his entire life. He’s a Marxist rabble-rouser, and it shows in every word he says.
DO IT~!
He would look like an absolute wussy-face pud
“But does he feel our pain?
I just can’t help it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyBcHUe4WeQ
The Dems won’t fight .. because .. they’re chicken!
Did you hear that Maxine? cluck cluck cluck cluck
heh heh
Hey Toilet Waters, why are you holding back, you incompetent black racist bitch?
How about you convince your Magic Negro to take up arms against the REAL citizens of this country and lets get this nightmare over with.
I think she is still under a lot of investigations and is out to save her own back side.
She is a useless piece of poorly digested material.
Someone should tell Maxine not to send a Lying Keynan to gun fight armed only with a teleprompter.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.