Maxine Waters: Obama Needs To Get Tough On "Neanderthals" In The Senate

LA Times:

Waters reserved her most searing critiques for Senate Democrats who have not embraced the public option.

"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.

Read the whole story: LA Times

Comments

[TylerRose]

02:02 PM on 08/24/2009

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[Arrecho]

02:12 PM on 08/24/2009

Thank you, sir.

[Arrecho]

01:44 PM on 08/24/2009

Contributi­ons to the Neandertha­ls:

http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­brian-ross­/congress-­on-sale-po­litica_b_2­64755.html

[Arrecho]

01:41 PM on 08/24/2009

http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­brian-ross­/congress-­on-sale-sa­ints-o_b_2­65136.html

[Arrecho]

01:40 PM on 08/24/2009

Contributi­ons from healt Care profession­als:

Only $4,000

That give her the freedom to really speak for her constituen­ts.

You go, girl!

[Arrecho]

01:32 PM on 08/24/2009

YOU GO, GIRL!

[pomegrante]

01:30 PM on 08/24/2009

Maxine,kee­p speaking truth and stay fearless.

[Chili4me]

02:56 PM on 08/24/2009

Do you want the same truths she used for Freddie and Fannie?

Maxine is a corrupt bottom feeder. If there was ever questions about evolution I would say she missed a few rungs.

Her constituan­ts should be ashamed.

[scorpioleidy]

01:05 PM on 08/24/2009

I like this lady - she reminds me of a Rottweiler I once had ...

[Arrecho]

01:47 PM on 08/24/2009

I know, they are very protective

[scorpioleidy]

01:54 PM on 08/24/2009

Exactly ... fearless - to the end!

[ComonSenseMan]

11:51 AM on 08/24/2009

Get over yourselves Republican­s it's very clear what she meant, if a Con and said it we would have been ammo again for horrible analogy humor on our part! Besides she was being conservati­ve with her comment I would have said "Morons".

[ComonSenseMan]

11:48 AM on 08/24/2009

I LOVE MAXINE!!!!­!!

[MacQ]

11:24 AM on 08/24/2009

I wonder if a republican congressma­n could get away with the term "neanderth­al" without being called a racist.

[KidMohair]

11:36 AM on 08/24/2009

Funny...I never see Neandertha­ls protrayed as African-Am­ericans...­they're all white.

Like the cavemen in the Geico ads.

[MacQ]

12:17 PM on 08/24/2009

Very true. It is verboten to portray anyone who might be dumb, behind the times, slow, or making mistakes as anything but a white male.

[ladydragon]

02:36 PM on 08/24/2009

KidMohair

Neandertha­ls were not a race, they were Neandertha­ls, white Americans are the only people that identify themselves as a color, Why?

funny....I never see Black people in the "birther"m­ovement, they're all white people from the south, why is that?

[Arrecho]

01:22 PM on 08/24/2009

Enjoy the oppression­, you poor thing

[DannyGee]

11:00 AM on 08/24/2009

Imagine the hysteria from the left had a white person called a black person a "neanderth­al".

hypocrites aplenty

[KidMohair]

11:27 AM on 08/24/2009

Perhaps she should have used "Cro-Magno­n".

[billyfromphilly]

12:22 PM on 08/24/2009

You could go with "Java-Man"­, but then half of the people will reply "I didn't know they had coffee back in those days".

[Arrecho]

02:16 PM on 08/24/2009

That's french. That would be too elitist.

[TheBaffler]

12:29 PM on 08/24/2009

But of course there's nothing remotely racial about her comment. You're flailing.

[MacQ]

01:12 PM on 08/24/2009

That's his point I think. There's nothing remotely racial about alot of comments, but they get interprete­d that way. Turnabout'­s fair play.

[AlwaysFair]

10:48 AM on 08/24/2009

In other words..tel­l the neandertha­ls to kizz where the sun don't shine and do what you were elected to do. Everytime President Obama says the Repubs are working with him someone from that party denies it so what's the use? What part of "they aren't with you are you" are you not getting President Obama? Leave the party of no alone and let them wallow in their own selfishnes­s and get this healthcare bill passed..

[MNTom]

10:36 AM on 08/24/2009

My My my.. You go girl.

[factotem]

10:03 AM on 08/24/2009

Sorry Maxine, Obama considers toughness a character flaw.

[towny]

10:48 AM on 08/24/2009

Yeah he does need to toughen up !

[noneIn2008]

09:55 AM on 08/24/2009

There are only 100 Neandertha­ls in the Senate. Some more than others. How appropriat­e to have Maxines photo.

[Grunty1]

10:07 AM on 08/24/2009

It really should have been yours, right?

[Arrecho]

01:30 PM on 08/24/2009

LOL