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Maxine Waters deserves better from her party
The Chicago Tribune ^ | June 29, 2018 | Solomon Jones

Posted on 06/29/2018 12:48:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

After U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., implored Americans of good conscience to publicly confront White House officials over their policies, leading Democrats joined with Republicans to denounce Waters’ comments as uncivil.

It was one of the few acts of bipartisanship that Democrats have engaged in since the advent of the Trump administration, and it was by far the most harmful. Not only because Waters, who lived through the civil rights movement, understands that oppressors do not buckle to civility. It was harmful because Waters’ fellow Democrats — including leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer — wrongly believe that tyranny can be combated with polite discourse.

That naive worldview is exactly why Democrats find themselves out of power. And if the only thing they can find to criticize is the one Democrat who wants to stand and fight an administration that seeks to disenfranchise, discriminate against and disrespect every nonwhite, non-Christian person who steps on American soil, Democrats do not deserve to retake Congress in the midterm elections.

This latest example of Democratic futility began with the Trump administration's policy of separating families that illegally crossed the southern border. After 2,300 migrant children were locked in government-funded detention facilities, Waters spoke out....

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: democrats; pelosi; trump; waters
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1 posted on 06/29/2018 12:48:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Couldn’t get past the first sentence. What a cr@p sandwich.


2 posted on 06/29/2018 12:51:29 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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What can you say? It’s a carp wrap paper. Waters is so repulsive even democrats notice but not the F heads at the Turbine.


3 posted on 06/29/2018 12:51:42 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Setting themselves up with excuses for massive failure. It’s all Obama ever did.


4 posted on 06/29/2018 12:52:19 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (You can pick your causes, but not the consequences.)
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“Maxine Waters deserves better from her party”

absolutely! she CLEARLY deserves to be the face of the party ...


5 posted on 06/29/2018 12:53:22 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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The only people who listen to Maxine are blacks with extreme political orientation.

Therefore, the logical conclusion of following Maxine’s exhortations is to assemble a hostile black mob around physically vulnerable white government officials.

At best, threatening, and easily interpreted that way. Often, dangerous, since the people listening to Maxine aren’t all love-and-flowers peaceful.

It’s incitement to riot.


6 posted on 06/29/2018 12:53:27 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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"And if the only thing they can find to criticize is the one Democrat who wants to stand and fight an administration that seeks to disenfranchise, discriminate against and disrespect every nonwhite, non-Christian person who steps on American soil, Democrats do not deserve to retake Congress in the midterm elections."

The Big Lie is alive and well.

If the Left wants a fight, more and more folks are ready to oblige... Personally, I'm extremely sick of their nonsense.

7 posted on 06/29/2018 12:53:49 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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I am old enough to remember when the Tribune was Conservative! What absurd drivel!


8 posted on 06/29/2018 12:53:56 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree. She needs to be propped up even more as one of the faces of the DEM party.


9 posted on 06/29/2018 12:56:10 PM PDT by CatOwner
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costings the democrats thousands of votes a day and I love it. Keep it coming.


10 posted on 06/29/2018 12:56:32 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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Proves the Tribe is in Bed with the DemocRATS.


11 posted on 06/29/2018 12:57:44 PM PDT by CptnObvious (uestion her now.)
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Well, the MadMaxiePad is one of my all-time favorite contemporary RATs.
Whether she wanted to or not, she’s become the face & voice of the RAT side of the UniParty and really should run for POTUS on the next go-around.
She should pick someone like that brain-dead Lewis fella, or even Cory Booker, for a running mate and go for it. It would be considered the ‘winning combination” for what the RAT party stands for and has become today. No one would dare contest them as it would be.......racist!!
Run, MadMaxie....RUN!!!!


12 posted on 06/29/2018 12:57:46 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Maxine Waters deserves... a padded cell.


13 posted on 06/29/2018 12:59:52 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Sessions couldn't find his own ass if Al Franken was grabbing it at the time ))))
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"...wrongly believe that tyranny can be combated with polite discourse. "

A carefully guarded call for violence, because Republicans are Tyrants. I guess they think Republicans are Nazis because law and order are as bad as the Holocaust.
14 posted on 06/29/2018 1:00:23 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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If she means an intervention, I’d agree.


15 posted on 06/29/2018 1:01:09 PM PDT by gogeo (No justice, no peace.)
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Pelosi put a muzzle on Maxine.

She had to claim “death threats”, oldest trick in the book.


16 posted on 06/29/2018 1:04:29 PM PDT by Eddie01
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Democrats do not deserve to retake Congress in the midterm elections.

A small nugget of truth, the rest is lies.


17 posted on 06/29/2018 1:04:53 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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How about a “hale and hearty handshake” and a goodbye?


18 posted on 06/29/2018 1:06:00 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Solomon Jones is not amused.

19 posted on 06/29/2018 1:09:10 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where’s the Cowboy Hat wearing Rock Star ?


20 posted on 06/29/2018 1:11:35 PM PDT by butlerweave
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