Maxine Waters On Jobs, Unemployment: 'The Tea Party Can Go Straight To Hell'

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) had some harsh words for the Tea Party at a forum in Inglewood, California Saturday.

With California's jobless rate now 12 percent, the second-highest rate of unemployment in the nation after Nevada, talk about jobs, the economy and the partisan squabbling in Congress dominated the “Kitchen Table Summit.”

"I'm not afraid of anybody," Waters told the crowd. "This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell."

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Waters has been outspoken on the topic of the unemployment crisis facing African-Americans.

Last week, she blasted Obama for ignoring the black community during his bus tour through the midwest.

"We don't know why on this trip that he's in the United States now, he's not in any black community," she said at a jobs forum in Detroit. "We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don't know what the strategy is," she continued. “We’re supportive of the president, but we getting tired, y’all, getting tired."

On Sunday, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) echoed Waters' remarks, telling CNN's Candy Crowley that African-Americans are “totally frustrated, and people need to know that the president feels their pain.”

“Almost every African-American person I spoke to said he needs to fight, and fight harder,” Cummings said.

Comments

[CrawfishFestival]

04:26 PM on 09/18/2011

Here's an interesting matter - because of the democratic party's racist comments - that Obama, Pelosi, Maxine Waters and others incite:

"Blacks Sue Obama and Democrats for Racial Discrimination"

www.ironicsurrealism.com/2011/09/17/blacks-file-class-action-racial-discrimination-suit-against-obama-democrats

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Here is an example why = www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVnJkzHuCJk

[finabiscotti]

09:04 PM on 09/03/2011

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presents a review of Democrats w Maxine Waters and her crew -

at the Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles, California - August 30, 2011.

www.youtube.com/user/machosauceproductions

[CrawfishFestival]

04:27 PM on 09/18/2011

This is the exact link = www.youtub­e.com/watc­h?v=AVnJkz­HuCJk

[rogergoldkin]

07:28 PM on 09/03/2011

Go Maxine! And tell them the way it is!

[Silverfield Condos Hoa]

02:20 PM on 08/31/2011

Interesting that the NLRB is trying to stop Boeing from bringing jobs to South Carolina, it so happens that South Carolina has 29 % blacks according to the 2010 US Census. Washington state has 3 %. The question is why is Maxine Waters not raising hell with Obama over out right racial discrimination against the black folks in South Carolina? These are real and good paying jobs that Boeing is trying to bring to the folks in this state.

This is outright racial discrimination. Why does the NLRB give the unions more rights than the black population of South Carolina.

[JrayTo]

08:36 AM on 08/30/2011

i love this woman.

[jesternhell]

02:13 PM on 09/01/2011

i know what you mean, i think she is so laughable to

[marshvegas]

05:35 PM on 08/27/2011

imagine a white politician telling obama and the left to go straight to hell.wow, reverse discrimination is always accepted by the left. now is cali on the verge of going under? is it a democrat run state. high taxes,tons of freeloaders on welfare. they love all the freebies the gov has to offer. hey maxine, when you can bring a balanced budget to the table then you can flap your ignorant racist mouth. california ha ha ha ha. balanced budget, ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[tdoctor]

04:33 AM on 08/30/2011

imagine a black congressman calling a white sitting president a liar on national tv, during the state of the union address. its unamerican.

[Viper1st]

10:07 AM on 08/27/2011

Maxine ~ walk your talk, instead of talk your talk

In you home state of California, unemployment rate is 12% ~ 1.5 million Legal Californians are on the State's unemployment role

While ~ 1.75 million of the 2.5 million illegals in California ~ illegally, are SCABBING California's jobs for half-price wages ~ illegally

http://pewhispanic.org/unauthorized-immigration/

[corncat]

11:19 PM on 08/25/2011

Someone should make Maxine Waters the poster child for term limits. Enough all ready!

[markdolph]

07:20 AM on 08/31/2011

Exactly. She's totally on the margin.

[mrfnk]

10:20 PM on 08/25/2011

at least she didn't have security kicking people with cameras out of the room.

[Dean77]

05:16 PM on 08/25/2011

Rick Santelli communicated with more passion and class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgJ30bihdy8

[Philclock]

04:27 PM on 08/25/2011

Maxine cares not a WHIT about "black unemployment": her shtick is VOTES; her methodology, FEAR, LOATHING AND ENVY, appeal to basic instincts. Anybody actually thinks through for themselves what she's all about, she wouldn't make it past a primary.

A shakedown artist and race card specialist extraordinaire.

[corncat]

12:54 AM on 08/26/2011

Another good argument for term limits.

[Philclock]

05:24 AM on 08/26/2011

Now THAT'S what my cat calls a purrrr-fect avatar!! Oh, and a cool response!

[Philclock]

03:40 PM on 08/25/2011

Gee, I wonder what would happen if somebody said the same think to "progressives" and their abuse of government powers?

[mrfnk]

10:17 PM on 08/25/2011

I'd say if you really don't want to remember how life was for some of us back in 1992 after 12 years of republican leadership, we can go outside and fight about it, maybe you'd remember and then maybe you might be able to relate to our reasons for wanting to ditch the repression we were raised with.

[Philclock]

10:54 PM on 08/25/2011

1992, Atlanta won the world series, Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee, Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to, Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas.

What was your point again??

[Heru1]

04:03 AM on 08/25/2011

Maxine Waters tells it like it is

[jimoaklanduniv]

10:43 PM on 08/24/2011

One thing for sure is that her and her Criminal side kick husband will be in HELL, but they will find very FEW if any members of the Tea Party there!! What a Despicable Wretch!!

[Promano]

09:15 PM on 08/24/2011

Ms Waters needs to apologize the entire African American Community for under estimating their intelligence. You can fool some of the People some of the time. But you Can't fool em all-
The Tea Party which is made up of a vast majority of Black,White & Hispanic- Let the voices of The African American Tea Party be heard-
http://teaparty.org/article.php?id=1216

[jllowery]

02:18 PM on 08/25/2011

Well said! We are Americans period!

[Orph1969]

12:30 PM on 09/14/2011

All both of them!