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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....

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: democrats; pelosi; trump; waters
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To: catnipman

Yes...please name her Senate Minority Leader. Am I allowed to say that? /s


21 posted on 06/29/2018 1:12:22 PM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: woweeitsme

Oops...sorry...meant HOUSE Minority Leader...


22 posted on 06/29/2018 1:13:26 PM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I miss the times Sheila Jackson Lee would take any statement from Maxine as a challenge. And they’d often spend a week trying to one-up each other on stupidity. Dems have managed to shut Lee down and Maxine is no longer at the top of her game without the competition. It is a shame that Dems try to keep their blacks quiet. Booker and Ellison try but they aren’t in the same league as Lee and Maxine.


23 posted on 06/29/2018 1:13:55 PM PDT by LostPassword
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My comments would result in a lifetime ban from FR.

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24 posted on 06/29/2018 1:13:56 PM PDT by Mears
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
She deserves to retire. Preferably in a gated community
25 posted on 06/29/2018 1:14:51 PM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every one of us should e-mail Maxine “Waters 2020”


26 posted on 06/29/2018 1:22:31 PM PDT by Lee Enfield (We aren't tired of winning, they aren't tired of whining. I'm comfortable with that.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Tribune has turned off comments while they ‘review’ their commenting policy. I think they must not be liking the comments.


27 posted on 06/29/2018 1:24:49 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: dljordan

Yahoo! News did a “gotcha” article about the “death camps” that Trump is setting up for all the Latino Anne Franks that I posted here as a thread. Comments were about 95% negative towards the reporters and media in general. Blue Wave my butt.


28 posted on 06/29/2018 1:28:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those death threats are probably coming from her own party after POTUS deemed her the Face of the RAT Party.


29 posted on 06/29/2018 1:28:41 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Grade “A” BS squared


30 posted on 06/29/2018 1:31:13 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first sentence described the anarchists as Americans with good conscience.

Another ‘up is down’ moment. Lots of those lately.


31 posted on 06/29/2018 1:32:32 PM PDT by lurk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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....


If they can not make a point with out lying, then there is no reason to take them serious.


32 posted on 06/29/2018 1:52:22 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not only because Waters, who lived through the civil rights movement, understands that oppressors do not buckle to civility


So Maxine Waters has become Bull Conner, when is she going to get the German Shepard and water cannon to keep conservatives out of public spaces?

When will there be signs that conservatives must sit in the back of the bus?

Is she going insist that there be separate drinking fountains?

Maxine Waters wants to go back to Jim Crow laws only with her deciding who must submit to the mob rule.

She should be ashamed of herself, she learned nothing from the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s


33 posted on 06/29/2018 1:56:48 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“Slaves dream not of freedom, but of becoming masters.”


34 posted on 06/29/2018 2:27:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well shiver me timbers, the author is a racist black man, I’m shocked!! He wants everyone to stop picking on extraordinarily low IQ Maxine. My my my.


35 posted on 06/29/2018 2:32:57 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is how low the once great Chicago Tribune has sunk. The Tribune was once a solid Republican newspaper in a Democrat city. But once America hating Clarence Page became an Editor, the “Trib” became the Obama Tribune. It is just a Liberal, unreadable rag. Line the bird cage with it.


36 posted on 06/29/2018 2:49:23 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Maxine should be the Leader and the Face of the Democrat Party and I encourage everyone to support her in her quest to be the Demonrat Leader.


37 posted on 06/29/2018 3:03:10 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pelosi/Waters 2020


38 posted on 06/29/2018 3:51:18 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chuckles told her to sit down and shaddap. I’m still waiting...


39 posted on 06/29/2018 5:06:42 PM PDT by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like the Chicago Tribune is trying to out WaaaaaaPo the Washington Post.....


40 posted on 06/30/2018 3:43:02 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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