Maxine Waters weighs in with advice - "Don't...*belch*...give an inch, Cymfia!"
Posted on 04/04/2006 1:50:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In her embarrassing confrontation with the U.S. Capitol Police, U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney has demonstrated that while she may have changed her trademark hairstyle, her personal style remains as offensive as ever.
McKinney has been sharply criticized — and deservedly so — for allegedly striking a Capitol police officer who stopped her from going around a security checkpoint, a perk allowed members of Congress.
According to police accounts, the officer asked McKinney three times to halt before putting his hand out to restrain her. That's when Capitol Hill police — who asked a federal prosecutor Monday to approve an arrest warrant for McKinney — say the outraged congresswoman hit the officer.
The officer apparently failed to recognize the DeKalb Democrat, who was not wearing a special lapel pin given to the 435 House members to help police identify them. In addition, McKinney sports a new hairdo.
A smarter, less arrogant politician would have smiled at the officer who stopped her, extended a hand and explained: "I'm Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from the great state of Georgia, and I appreciate your diligence in keeping the Capitol safe. Next time, I hope you'll recognize me." She would have had a pal for life.
But why make friends when you can make headlines? Two days after the scuffle, McKinney faced TV cameras and stayed true to form, charging the officer with racism.
"The whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me — a female, black congresswoman," she said.
McKinney's haughty position — that every Capitol employee ought to know her by sight and that she should never have to endure checkpoints like the riffraff — evinces the arrogance and ego that voters expect from elected officials. It may be inconvenient for self-important people such as McKinney to stop and show their IDs, but it's essential in these scary times of terrorist bombings and anthrax attacks.
In 1998, two Capitol officers were killed by a mentally ill man who opened fire at the main tourist entrance to the Capitol.
In the past, McKinney has complained that she's mistaken for the "hired help" in Washington. In the next election, DeKalb residents can help clear up that confusion by putting an end to McKinney's employment with them.
Rep. Foxx has some class no doubt. As do Condoleeza Rice, Kay James, Frances Rice, and countless other conservative and Republican black American women. None of them have gone out of their way to attack law enforcement officers.
The RNC and NRCC ought to make a stronger effort to find black women to run for Congress. If a few are elected they would stand out in great contrast to mckinney and her ilk.
She looks like a deranged chipmunk who just survived an encounter with a high voltage line!
How about Sheila Jackson Lee...the one who can't tell the difference between our Moon and the planet Mars.
Maxine Waters weighs in with advice - "Don't...*belch*...give an inch, Cymfia!"
Cynthia McKinney is an outstanding example of why those southern planters should have picked their own damn cotton.
[Senators and Representatives} shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; ....
What she did was obviously neither Treason nor a Felony. Whether or not it was a "breach of the peace" as defined at law is something unknown to me. But what she did will have to qualify as such for a warrant to stick, as she was certainly going to attend a session of the House.
Lok, since a Dem will always be elected from that district, from the GOP's POV, it's better if the Dem is McKIney..
I wrote her a little note, thanks! Maybe Tom DeLay needs to move to Georgia and help redraw those district lines so this b*tch can't get elected again.
Amen to that!
Bingo! Cynthia's race baiting victim sideshow is for the benefit of her constituents only. She doesn't give a hoot how she is perceived in the rest of the country.
"duh, look at dat shinny tang"
"In the past, McKinney has complained that she's mistaken for the "hired help" in Washington. . ."
As you point out, she is a black female member of Congress.
She (and every other elected official) needs to understand that she IS INDEED the "hired help." She is supposed to be a public SERVANT.
I wish someone would tell her that in public so I could watch her pitch another hissy fit.
Of course, the AJC did not mention that during the last election, the paper endorsed McKinney over an intelligent and well-qualified Republican.
It is my hope that she will be charged but I doubt that she will.
Don't forget Sheila Jackson Lee! Remember, she's famous for publicly asking whether the Mars rovers would be able to photograph the flag the astronauts left in '69......
I thought Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Mars)held that distinction.
Bingo.
And I assure you that that idiot Cynthia Tucker (her and Mckinney were separated at birth, I think) did not sign onto this particular editorial.
That equally racist bigot would not dare to speak against her hero.
A botched electrocution (we should be so lucky).
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