Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Maxine Waters Says the Craziest Things

Look Everybody, it's the Crazy Black Lady!"
Hey everybody! It's my favorite! Look everybody. It's the crazy black lady! --- Kenny Rogers [1:00-1: 25]

My favorite episode of Mad TV always features Will Sasso playing the crazy, hedonistic, uninhibited Kenny Rogers.

As a guest host for the variety show after he had moved onto other projects, Sasso returned and played in a skit called "Kenny Rogers Reality Show."

In the first scene, he meets the "dumbass" contestants, and when he sees the African-American woman, he shouts "It's the crazy black lady!"

When I recall that line, there is another crazy black lady I think of: Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Torrance. Can you believe it? Torrance!)

Here is a list of some -- hardly exhaustive list -- of the things which "Crazy Black Lady" Maxine Waters has uttered in the past (and they are utterly foolish):

During the LA Riots of 1992, Waters practically justified, if not outright defended, the rioting, pillaging, and looting which took place:

 “If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason.   I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable.   So I call it a rebellion.

Keep in mind that a great deal of white people as well as other ethnic groups starting looting during the riots. How dragging a truck driver out of his cabin and beating him senseless constitutes social protest is just beyond me.

Crazy!
Waters sits as ranking (and rank) member on the House Finance and Banking Committee. In the late 2000s, Her comments about the solvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bear repeating (and ridicule):

We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.

One housing crisis and millions of homes lost, jobs lost, and a Great Recession later, one has to wonder what Waters is doing on the House Finance Committee in the first place.

In 2008, Water commented in a documentary on progressive values  that "Conservative values have failed. I think that weak people are preyed upon. . . but I think that they [conservative talk radio] have failed. . ."

Also in 2008, Here's her botched up attempt to shake up the oil companies in Congress:

What guarantees are you going to give this liberal about how that will reduce the cost of gasoline at the pump if we let you drill where you say you want to drill. . .And guess what this liberal will be all about. This liberal will be all about socializ. . . will be about . . .basically taking over and the government running all your companies. Uh Uh Uh. . .

Crazy!

Liberal talk shows have closed down all over the country, even in liberal California and New York. As for preying on the weak, look no further than any major city with Democratic dominance, and you will find poverty, corruption, and crime.

In 2010, Congresswoman Waters was offended at the flag-waving Tea Party protesters:

I was amazed.   I really was.   I didn’t say anything to anybody.   I just watched-the Republicans were out there-they were having a great time.   They were laughing, they were waving the American flag, they were egging them on, and I thought that was outrageous behavior.   I really did.”

Waving the American flag is an outrageous act? Are you kidding me? Then again, students in a Bay Area high school were required to take their American flag shirts off, for fear of offending some gang-related groups. She was critical of Americans demonstrating their First Amendment to petition their government. With these kind of statements, what would she have thought of Dr. Martin Luther King giving his "I have a Dream Speech" in 1963? There were lots of flags there, and men and women were criticizing their government then.

In 2011, Waters was trying to keep her Congressional aspirations afloat, fearing that she would be dumped into another district and have to challenge another (incumbent) Democrat, Waters showed her solidarity with organize labor and the blame game of the Democratic machine: "The Tea Party can go straight to hell!"


 I wonder if she would say that Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, the African-American leader of the South LA Tea Party.


In 2012, Waters turned up her outrageous rhetoric once again, literally demonizing her Congressional colleagues:

I saw pictures of Boehner and Cantor on our screens. Don’t ever let me see again in life those Republicans in our hall, on our screens, talking about anything. These are demons.

And this is coming from the lady who said that the Tea Party can go straight to hell? Who is dancing with the devil, really?

In 2013, after his second inauguration, about President Obama's campaign machine, Organizing for Action, Waters commented:

And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.

I thought that was called the NSA, or the CIA.

Following the breakdown of lawmakers' discussion on avoiding the sequester, Waters announced: "If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a big setback. . .it's going to cause these job losses, 170 million jobs."

Then came the shutdown but Waters would not shut her mouth, and she spewed more venom:

I am encouraged more by what happened with Republicans yesterday-- they had been mislead by Senator Cruz. I understood that they referred to him as a snake-oil salesman.

There aren't even that many people working in this country, and without a doubt that number has already dwindled considerably.

Even Jay Leno could not pass that whopper up. Crazy as well as stupid!

Speaking to the Congressional Black Caucus last year, Maxine Waters discussed the spread of crack cocaine in South Los Angeles:

It was just everywhere, and as I traveled across the country I saw entire towns that were cracked out. I mean, everybody was on crack. . .

Wow!

For all the outrageous outbursts which have poured out of Congresswoman Waters' mouth, perhaps she should take some advice from another black, Democratic activist quoted in Politico:

After the president’s speech, three African-American women, asked their opinion of the event, volunteered their criticism of Waters for violating the unspoken understanding not to criticize the first black president.

“We as African-Americans have to be smarter,” said Ruby Hicks of Racine, Wis. “And Maxine Waters needs to shut up.”

Thank you! I could not have said it better myself!

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Obamacare is Going Straight to Hell, After All!

"As far as I'm concerned, the TEA Party can go straight to hell!" -- Maxine Waters.

For the first time in years, if anyone can ever remember a fiery race-hustler getting called on their disrespectful remarks, Congresswoman Maxine Waters had no choice but to back-pedal from her crude remarks in a 2011 job forum in Inglewood.

Fox News even confronted her in the halls of Congress about her inappropriate comments. She just smiled and looked away from the camera until she escaped into an elevator.

Still, her remarks have rattled conservatives, yet mainstream affiliates pushed her to justify such outrageous remarks.

She appeared on Meet the Press and other NBC affiliates trying to justify then deflect the statements she made.

Of course, her coarse rhetoric knows no bounds, and she has uttered such offensive remarks before.

I was at a Tea Party rally in Torrance, CA, which now makes up a large part of her new Congressional district. The residents in Torrance, however, have a different view of her new responsibilities, and the comments are not good.

One lady told me: "She's awful!"

Another lady told me how she calls her office and tweets to her about the outrageous remarks she made about the Tea Party.

One wonders if she has met Reverend Jesse Peterson, who leads the South LA Tea Party. Does Congresswoman Waters think that this African-American Pastor should go straight to hell, too?

When I confronted her in a town hall meeting in September, 2013, I could not help myself:

"As far as I'm concerned, Obamacare can go straight to hell."

I was wrong-- Obamacare is already there, and taking in  its fiery, frustrating wake access to quality health care while limiting the doctors and medical specialists which Americans, young and old, can see. State insurance exchanges intended to create a competitive marketplace are crashing all over the country. While President Obama and his team tout that 4 million people have signed up, the same statistics fail to calculate that a number of those individuals have not paid their first month's premium Without and funds going into the system, there is no funding that will support the slightly greater number of poor and sick people jumping into the program, who are depending on a government subsidy to get health insurance.

Coupling these unpleasant statistics with the horror stories of individual Americans with Obamacare insurance still left paying the bill, and we can see that Obamacare is taking not just the medical profession, not just the health industry, but an unprecedented number of sick and wounded Americans with it.

Pilot to co-pilot, your health insurance is going up in flames!

"I Have Lost all Respect for the Man"

Maxine Waters posed quietly with Congressman Henry Waxman,
but we can be sure that sparks were flying unseen.
(Source: http://torrance2014.blogspot.com/2013/12/congressman-henry-waxman-and.html)



Now check out what Congresswoman Maxine Waters had to say about retiring (er, retreating) Congressman Henry Waxman:

Now I can't say this is why Mr. Waxman is doing what he's doing," said Waters.  "But these are the two places they go for money - the Chamber.....and organized labor. And so some of these elected officials don't feel they can be independent and fight. They say, 'Hey, you know, this is too difficult, after all, they've come together on this issue'."

I don't have any respect for you having been doing that.

I want you to find all the community activists in his district and ask them to join with us. I want them to call him and tell him to get his nose out of Westchester's business. He's thinking, 'Well, it's not my district, so I don't have to worry about my constituents on this issue. I can do what ever I want.'"

But we have to turn that around. Get busy. I will remind him, every day, that we're after him.", Waters said, smiling.

Wow.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

What This Liberal is Really All About

What is a liberal?

Someone who supports freedom.

Does Maxine Waters support freedom?

She supports Obamacare.

Obamacare is causing people to lose their current insurance.

They have to pay for more expensive coverage, or end up on a state-sponsored subsidy.

While Obamacare claimed to protect young adults, allowing them to stay on their parents' insurance until twenty-six, more parents are losing their insurance.

Doctors are leaving the medical profession.

Local clinics are closing up, or rationing care.

Even national Mainstream Media affiliates are reporting the devastating fallout of Obamacare.

The  mandatory provisions forcing people to purchase overpriced insurance having nothing to do with freedom at all.

I am a liberal, because I support free markets, free enterprise, and free people.

So it's time for this liberal to tell Waters and anyone who doesn't know what this liberal is all about.

This liberal is all about getting Maxine Waters out of office.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Maxine Waters Town Hall -- Extended





Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Gardena) hosted at a town hall meeting at St. John Church in El Camino Village on Crenshaw Blvd.





Before the meeting, I debated with three liberal activists from Torrance, all armed with "No War in Syria" placards. I agreed with their anti-interventionist stance, although the rest of their politics I would not care for. Following the redistricting efforts of 2011, residents in east Torrance ended up in the new 43rd, where Maxine Waters cruised to reelection against an unprepared Democrat, Bob Flores. They liked the change for the liberal. I got stuck with Henry Waxman in the 33rd (Click

here to learn more).





Another gentleman, Brian, joined our discussion, content to contend that Obamacare was the first step toward a single-payer system. I calmly objected, since socialized medicine had failed in Great Britain and in Canada. I shared the reports which I had read and seen from patients, doctors, and other health care professionals who had lived in those countries before the single-payer system emerged. Rationing, long lines, closed clinics, frequent misconduct, underground private facilities. He wouldn't hear any of it. "You're focusing on all the negatives!"





Obamacare is forcing doctors out of medicine, raising premiums, diminishing access, and raising taxes on Americans. Postives?





Brian then countered: "You cannot compare Canada and Britain to the United States. We should try it out here first." Then I recounted the failures in Massachusetts and Tennessee. Another man spoke up about the Medicare exchanges. I counted with reports from doctors who were leaving private practice, and the growing exodus of health insurers out of the exchanges, including Kaiser. "Where's the competition?" I asked. I then presented a novel idea: just because a law mandates something does not mean that the service will be there. Health insurers are leaving the industry. Law can demand, but it cannot supply.





One of the liberal anti-war protestors agreed with me -- there has to be profit in the medical profession. The other woman welcomed the dialogue. Brian stopped listening.





At 2:00pm, Waters took the church lector/podium. She blamed the conservatives in Congress for holding the budget hostage, for delaying the implementation of Obamacare, and for the savage cuts which were hurting every other victimized interest group created by liberal interests.





Next, Experts from the health care industry, lobbyists for small business, and a nurse from Cedar Sinai Medical Center muddled their way through the Affordable Care Act. The two hour gobbledy-gookfest would have frightened George Orwell for its insistence on telling people that everything will be fine. Such denial of the obvious was sickening. The nurse from Cedar Sinai declared that she was "joyful, ecstatic!" about Obamacare, which she personalized as "MaxineCare" or "YouCare". She misrepresented the length of the bill, claiming that there was gold in the nine hundred pages. Waters' brochures and frequent newspapers affirmed that the legislation was 2,500 pages. There were discussion of closing "the donut hole" in Medicare", followed by a slide with another "donut hole".





Aside from myself and one young black girl, the audience was made up of elderly people, but the "Young Invincibles" representative reminded everyone that young people have to buy insurance. They have to!





The presenters recounted statistic upon statistic, baptizing us into the Obamacare koolaid. I was disturbed, remained unbelieving.





Then came the mike. A long line of people showed up. The first speaker, from Encino, commented that the death panels were not in Obamacare, but in the stimulus. How about that? Someone from outside the district speaking up to Waters. I felt bolder. The next speaker, a classified employee from LA Unified, lamented his new, part-time status because of Obamacare, then questioned why illegal aliens would get health care but not have to buy insurance, while American citizens were forced into purchasing health insurance. A deranged Iraqi, the liberal anti-war protestors, and then John Wood of Inglewood took to the mike. Wood is the Republican candidate running against Maxine Waters in 2014. "We've been watching you!" Waters playfully admitted, then dismissed him after his lengthy question.





Then it was my long-awaited turn.





First, I complimented Congresswoman Waters for seeking to end the War on Drugs. I also agreed that insurance companies should not push people off their plans.





Then I catalogued the rise in premiums reported in the LA Times and in news affiliates across the country. I mentioned insurance companies leaving the Medicare exchanges. "That's not a shopping mall. That's a monopoly!" I talked about a retired teacher in Torrance who had four doctors because each one retired over Obamacare.





Then came the piece de résistance:





"You gotta be tough for this game, and I'm not afraid of anybody. And I think that Obamacare should go straight to hell!"





I mimicked Waters' offensive rhetoric from a 2011 town hall meeting, then stormed off, refusing to listen to Waters dialogue from the same false premise that "Obamacare is good."





I left the church with loud boos following.





I don't know if I accomplished much that evening, but I had a good time giving liberals and Congressman Waters a piece of my mind.

Waters in Gardena Town Hall Meeting



Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Westchester) hosted at a town hall meeting at St. John Church in El Camino Village on September 14.



 

She wrongly blamed the conservatives in Congress for holding the budget hostage, for delaying Obamacare, and for the savage sequester cuts. Conservatives are trying to save this country by staving off insurmountable debt.



Next, Experts from the health care industry, lobbyists for small business, and a nurse from Cedar Sinai Medical Center to explaion the Affordable Care Act. The nurse from Cedar Sinai misrepresented the length of the bill, claiming that there was gold in the nine hundred pages. Waters' brochures affirmed that the legislation was 2,500 pages. There were discussion of closing "the donut hole" in Medicare", followed by a slide with another "donut hole".



Then came the mike for public discussion. The first speaker, from Encino, commented that the death panels were not in Obamacare, but in the stimulus. The next speaker, a classified employee from LA Unified, lamented his part-time status because of Obamacare, then questioned why illegal aliens would get health care but not have to buy insurance, while American citizens were forced into purchasing health insurance. Then John Wood of Inglewood discussed the premium hikes of Obamacare. Wood is the Republican candidate running against Maxine Waters in 2014. "We've been watching you!" Waters playfully admitted, then dismissed him after his lengthy question.



Then it was my turn.



I complimented Congresswoman Waters for seeking to end the War on Drugs.



Then I catalogued the rise in premiums reported in the LA Times and in news affiliates across the country. I mentioned insurance companies leaving the Medicare exchanges. "That's not a shopping mall. That's a monopoly!" I talked about a retired teacher in Torrance who had four doctors because each one retired over Obamacare.



Then I shouted, mimicking her tirade during a 2011 town hall meeting in Inglewood:



"You gotta be tough for this game, and I'm not afraid of anybody. And I think that Obamacare should go straight to hell!"



Every American should shout at their Congressman: Obamcare should go straight to hell!



I am glad for an open forum to share my views (Congressman Henry Waxman shut me down in an open forum, as well as resident in Venice), but Congresswoman Waters cannot wade through all the paperwork, stats, and conflicting information to convince anyone that Obamacare is anything more than "a train wreck."

Friday, January 18, 2013

About Maxine Waters in Torrance

For the first time in California history, an Independent Citizens Commission redrew the Congressional Districts. Unfortunately, Congresswoman Waters faced neither a change nor challenge to her constituency dominance. Featured on last week’s Torrance Tribune cover, Congresswoman Maxine Waters has reigned in South Los Angeles for twenty years. From raising taxes to threatening the nationalization of major companies, no representative better typifies poor financial understanding mixed with racial overtones than Waters.
 
Despite an easy campaign, Waters advertised in a remarkably widespread fashion, posting in the Argonaut News as well as local South Bay Papers. Now that she is in office, whose views will she represent? The same impoverished policies which have diminished the opportunities of residents in West Athens and Gardena, or the more freedom-loving and free market principles of Torrance and Lomita, two new constituencies which she did not even bother to visit during her “campaign” for the new 43rd Congressional District?
 
Congresswoman Waters’ record should have disqualified her from running for office. In one Congressional panel, she claimed that President Ronald Reagan flooded LA streets with drugs. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washingtonranked her as one of the most corrupt members of Congress. Two years ago, Waters was under investigation for steering TARP funds toward one of her husband’s banks. After that, she cried out “The TEA Party can go straight to hell!” while pretending to ally the economic fears of her constituents in Inglewood and South Los Angeles.
 
Torrance residents: Keep your eyes on “Queen Maxine.”