The Tea Party is firing back at Rep. Maxine Waters for saying she wants the group to go “straight to hell.” The 11-term California Democrat made the heated remarks at a jobs forum in Inglewood on Saturday. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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after new stats came out showing the Golden State’s unemployment rate ballooned to 12%.
“I’m not afraid of anybody,” Walters 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.”
The Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest Tea Party organization, blasted the politician’s rhetoric.
“We’ve had Democrats calling American citizens ‘terrorists’ and ‘hostage takers,’ and now an elected Democratic representative says that we can ‘go straight to hell,” co-founders Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler told the Daily News in a statement.
“The president and all leaders of the Democratic Party, who have called for civility in the past, are neglecting to censure their own. Is civility only required from their opponents?” the statement added. “The president’s silence on these latest violations of civility has been deafening, but not surprising.”
Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum agreed, calling Waters “vile” during an interview with conservative radio host Steve Malzberg on Monday.
“She’s a caricature of what’s wrong with Congress,” he said on the show. “She’s vile and she’s always been that way.”
Waters made headlines last week when she blasted President Obama for not visiting any black communities during his recent bus tour.
“We want to give \[Obama\] every opportunity, but our people are hurting,” she said during an event in Detroit, according to ABC News. “The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is. We don’t know why on this trip that he’s in the United States now, he’s not in any black community. We don’t know that.”
