Self-proclaimed Congressional Socialist Maxine Waters, Representative for the 35th Congressional District of California, held a heavily pro-Obamacare rally … umm, ‘town hall’ meeting on Saturday, August 22nd, at Los Angeles Southwest College. Roughly four hundred individuals, many of whom had Obama bumper stickers on their cars, attended the two-hour plus raucous-free event.
Representative Waters is the quintessential example of the Chicago-style thug politics that has overtaken Capitol Hill since Barack Obama became president of the United States. Her comment, in referencing the notable absence of vocal oppositional opinions, “I sent them a message … don’t try that with Maxine Waters,” proves that point.
Ms. Waters took time during the event to bash former-Alaska governor and former-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the only time the California Congresswoman was met with loud boos from the audience, for her popularization of the ‘death panels’ myth, saying, “Why would any member of Congress, especially those of us who are grandmothers, want to pull the plug on Grandma?” In response then, here is a question for Rep. Waters: if the ‘death panels’ Ms. Palin advocated against were simply a myth as you have claimed, how is that the Senate Finance Committee removed the provision from the president’s health care reform bill? How can one remove something that didn’t exist in the first place? But maybe she’s right. Obama isn’t going to pull the plug on grandma if she needs a pacemaker at 100 years of age; he’s just going to give her two painkillers, expecting her not to call him in the morning. That’s all!
If the president’s health care reform bill, as it stands now, were to come up for a vote when Congress reconvened after Labor Day, Ms. Waters said she would vote against it. Rep. Waters stated, bottom-line, that “she would refuse to vote for a healthcare reform package” unless it expressly included “a provision for creating a government-run medical insurance plan that would compete with private insurers.” One hopes, if this does happen, that it doesn’t turn out to be like the post office, as the president seemed to suggest at his own ‘town hall’ event in Colorado. “The healthcare system is broken,” she said to a cheering crowd, “and it’s got to be fixed.” Rep. Waters continued to spread the ’47 million uninsured’ myth that has continuously been perpetuated by filmmaker Michael Moore and the other far-left fear mongers who want to shove socialized medicine down the throats of Americans.
Rep. Waters, in spite of the serious nature of the health care debate in this country, kept things lively during her event, joking that President Barack Obama “has been trying to reach across the aisle.” Oh, wait … she was serious? As has been stated on this site before, so far in the health care debate this summer we have seen the White House tell supporters of the president’s health care proposal – in particular ACORN and SEIU – to ‘punch back twice as hard’ against tea party protestors, progressive Democrats threaten a leading moderate Democrat in the health care reform fight with losing his chairmanship if he didn’t stop talking to Congressional Republicans, and the Democratic leadership forcing moderate ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats to submit to their rule. Again, where’s the compromising and reaching across the aisle?
Ms. Waters then made an appeal to the president’s sense of vanity, saying, “The people of this country elected you and gave you a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate.” “Yes, we know that you are a nice man, that you want to work with the opposite side of the aisle. But there comes a time when you need to drop that and move forward,” Waters said. “We’re saying to you, Mr. President, ‘Be tough. Use everything that you’ve got. Do what you have to do. And we have your back…’ ” So much for the president’s campaign promise of bi-partisan congressional cooperation. But, then again, this really isn’t surprising considering all the other campaign promises he’s broken. Heck, even the far-left Air America Media has begun to make note of that fact.
“Not only are we going to do everything we can to organize and put pressure on the senators — some of whom are Neanderthals – we’re going to say to the president, ‘We want you to use every weapon in your basket in order to get those senators to do what they should be doing,’ “ Waters said. Wow, name-calling. Real mature, Rep. Waters. Echoing a statement made by RNC Chairman Michael Steele, if you’ve had the votes, why then haven’t you passed it already? What is holding you back?
