I use the term woman lightly...(Politico) — In advance of the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), fresh of the CBC’s national jobs tour, is demanding that Obama make clear what he’s going to do to help communities suffering through the worst of a bad economy. In very clear terms, she challenges the president to spend as much energy working to create jobs in the black community as he is campaigning for votes in one of the whitest states in the nation. Here are excerpts from Waters’s statement, which will be released widely later today:
“If the unemployment rates in the African American Community continue to climb, like they did in August by almost a full percentage point, those African American voters who came out to the polls for the first time in 2008 but who have since lost their home and/or their job, may not return to the polls. Therefore, targeting public policy to a community who accounted for 13 percent of the electorate in ’08, and who is now experiencing the culmination of a decade of economic crisis, is not just good policy, but good politics,” Waters says, “There are roughly three million African Americans out of work today, a number nearly equal to the entire population of Iowa. I would suggest that if the entire population of Iowa, a key state on the electoral map and a place that served as a stop on the president’s jobs bus tour were unemployed, they would be mentioned in the president’s speech and be the beneficiary of targeted public policy. So, one question to be answered this evening is, are the unemployed in the African American community, including almost 45 percent of its youth, as important as the people of Iowa?”
H/T Weasel Zippers
This pretty much sums it up...I think the right conversation to have is to tell the hack host Mr. Gregory and his idiot bitch guest Maxine Waters to "go straight to hell!" Newsbusters.
Nancy Pelosi hardest hit...Not!Pelosi, who ranks among the 50 richest Members of Congress, reported $43.45 million in minimum assets, according to financial disclosure reports released Wednesday. That marks an increase of more than $13 million in assets from 2009.
Who was it who said, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money"? I guess that certain point is different for liberals...
Every frigging day...The Homeland Security Department said Thursday it will halt deportation proceedings on a case-by-case basis against illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria such as attending school, having family in the military or are primarily responsible for other family members’ care.
Every illegal sent home is one less vote and one less person on the dole. What part of illegal is so baffling to these morons?
RCP has the vid (if you have the stomach)."Well, we're going to focus on what we know is the number one priorities on Americans ease minds right now, that is creating jobs and continuing to get this economy turned around. If we have to drag the Republicans with us, then we'll do that, but, you know, it's been a whole lot of months, eight months they have controlled the house with no jobs bills coming to the Floor. Hopefully now with this compromise on the debt ceiling behind us, with the opportunity, with the economic to sit down and focus on longer-term deficit reduction that will have some balance and ask some sacrifice for our most fortunate," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) told MSNBC. Schultz is also the Chairwoman of the DNC.
After eight months its now the Republicans fault? That isn't even a good try Ms. Schultz, that is just mush mouth gibberish.Did she overlook forget Barry, Nancy, and Harry's gazzilion dollar Keynesian failure?
