Ben Johnson,The White House Watch
Once again,the GOP hacks have been rope-a-doped.
Last week,Republican apologists salivated at the news that Maxine Waters raised the roof at a public meeting in Detroit when she raised the possibility of publicly criticizing the president. The Beltway establishment played the clip of a black audience expressing disappointment with Barack Obama to the hilt while dreaming it signified that the president was “losing black support.”This weekend,Waters used her newly conferred significance to say Obama must move leftward before shouting,“The Tea Party can go straight to Hell!”
This “maverick”routine is simply the latest attempt to redefine the political spectrum further to the Left. And the GOP fell for it hook,line,and sinker.
Any clear-eyed analyst who heard a far-Left congresswoman insist Obama has not spent enough money on economic stimulus should have immediately understood this was a call for the president to engage in more wealth redistribution,more government dependence,and more racial demagoguery. The fact that she spoke at an event promoting the Congressional Black Cacucus’new “For the People”Jobs Initiative —which proposes extending unemployment benefits 14 additional weeks,increasing federal funding for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,and expanding job training for “emerging markets and industries (such as green technologies)”—should have been an indication of her intent. However,national talk show hosts’analysis never rises above the level of banal,partisan political advantage:which inside-the-Beltway party does this benefit? Is a given political personality “up”or “down”? Can any given datum be politicized to grant my side even the thinnest,most fleeting political advantage?
Maxine’s words set their mouths watering.
They could hardly restrain themselves when….
JUST another LOUD MOUTH liberal,who does not represent "WE THE PEOPLE"
She should be saving such rhetoric for Chinese when they stop buying US debt .
Working Americans want their country back and,if that upsets the queen of the welfare class,than so be it. Stop the giveaways and make every working person pay at least some taxes because they need ot have some personal skin in the game.
Will 2012 be the beginning of a mortal battle? Rhetoric such as Ms Waters'is dangerous –and she is not the only one in the black community to spew the clearly hateful words. One would like to think that the Congresswoman is intelligent and aware that what she is doing is inciting "her people"to action –not just at the polls….
Perhaps she will temper her statements in the future –if not,the God help us all.
Writing "perhaps she will temper her…",is so out of touch with reality and shows such ignorance of the players doing their best to destroy the Constitutional fabric of this country,that it shows everyone on this blog how the kenyan,marxist,muslim,dictator got elected. If you do not start listening to the conservative talk show hosts,you along with the rest of us are going to be pulled into a one world progressive dark hole with the elitist politicians ruling us,the unwashed masses.
Maxine Waters telling the Tea Party to go straight to hell;now why would the Tea Party even think about going to Maxine's home site?