Maxine Waters, We're too Nice

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California Rep Maxine Waters Identifies Democrats' Problem: 'Way Too Nice' for Our Own Good

As Democrats continue to wrestle not only with Hillary Clinton's loss, but also the loss of more than 1,000 seats from state legislatures, governors' offices, and the U.S. Congress over the last eight years, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has identified the problem:

Democrats are 'way too nice.'

Waters made the observation during an interview with MSNBC Monday, saying she has no intention of trying to find common ground with President Trump.

“That has been a problem in my party, that when we’re in power we’re nice. We bend over backwards to work with people. Trump has stepped over everybody. He has no respect for his own colleagues, let alone those on the opposite side of the aisle.”

Waters, re-elected to her 14th term in California's 43rd District in November — a large part of South Central Los Angeles — says she won't even meet with Trump, let alone work with him.

“I have no intention of pretending everything is alright. This business of calling names, and lying, and retreating on your promises, etcetera, why should I trust him to be any different with me?”

Waters made similar comments to MSNBC three days after the election.

"I don’t believe anything Donald Trump says. He has lied and distorted information all throughout this campaign. I want to know when he is going to show us his taxes?

I want to know when he is going to reimburse all those students that got ripped off [by] Trump University.”

Incidentally, the House Ethics Committee brought three charges against Waters — the ranking member on the Financial Services Committee — in 2010, accusing her of helping a California bank secure federal bailout funds... in which her husband owned stock.


The "Deplorables" are too stupid to understand the gentle nature of democrats. They stand by and let cop killers, and thugs murder their citizens in Chicago.

Another Example of a Democrat being nice:

Robert "Midget" Reich on the Obama to Trump transition

quote:
Trump is accusing Obama of putting up “roadblocks” to a smooth transition. In reality, I think President Obama has been too cooperative. In the next 23 days, I'd recommend he make the following parting shots:

1. Name Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives the President authority to fill vacancies during a Senate recess. This includes filling a Supreme Court vacancy: Justice William Brennan began his tenure with a recess appointment in 1956. Any appointments made this way would expire at the end of the next Senate session. So a Garland appointment made on January 3 would last until December 2017, the end of the first session of the 115th Congress.

2. Use his pardon authority to forgive the past and future civil immigration offenses of the nearly 750,000 young people granted legal status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Dream) program. Without an immigration offense on their records, they could more easily apply for legal status.

3. Impose economic sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, including blocking all further loans or investments by Russian nationals in all real estate in the United States.

4. Instruct all cabinet departments and agencies not to respond to any Trump transition team inquiry that might intimidate any individual members of the civil service.

5. Issue an executive order protecting the independence of all government fact-finding agencies: The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Center for Education Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Energy Information. (Trump could repeal the order, but that would be politically costly.)

6. Issue an executive order protecting the independence of all Inspectors General in every cabinet department and agency. (Ditto.)

7. Issue a report showing which states' citizens will most benefit from tax cuts going to the richest Americans and largest corporations (overwhelmingly blue states), and which states will lose the most from cuts in Medicaid and repeal of Obamacare (overwhelmingly red states), along with estimates of such gains and losses.

8. Other actions?

[cris axtell/coal hill ken]

This is why we need term limits.