Black Caucus tells Obama you've done too little for African Americans

[undeterred]

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members on Wednesday criticized the Obama administration for not doing enough to help African-Americans through the bleak economy. Soon after withholding their votes on a wide-ranging financial services bill, 10 CBC members said they are pressuring the White House to do more.

The House Financial Services Committee voted 31-27 in favor of the bill, but the lawmakers’ boycott came on a major financial measure the administration wants to see Congress pass this month. “We have not been forceful enough in our efforts to protect the most vulnerable of our population,” said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who represents one of the nation’s poorest districts. “We can no longer afford for our public policy to be defined by the worldview of Wall Street.”

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The CBC concerns first mounted nearly two weeks ago when the 10 members threatened to withhold their votes on the same bill. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) postponed a vote on the bill at that point. Waters said on Wednesday that the CBC is meeting with the heads of the nation’s financial regulatory agencies on foreclosure and lending issues. She emphasized members were lining up meetings with President Barack Obama’s advisers to exert their power. “I think we have got to get his people educated and moving,” Waters said.

The Black Caucus is also working on a proposal to create jobs that it hopes will become part of an effort under discussion among House leaders to bolster the economy. The CBC efforts underscore the deep anxiety lawmakers have as they face an economy witnessing the highest national unemployment rate in a generation. The unemployment rate for African-Americans is 15.7 percent, compared to the national rate of 10.2 percent.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/70353-black-caucus-tells-obama-youve-done-too-little-for-african-americans-

[vaberella]

1. Versus doing a lot for the American people as a whole...of course. n/t

[Ken Burch]

12. Yeah...this war is gonna do a LOT for all of us.

n/t.

[vaberella]

13. Straw man. n/t

[Ken Burch]

15. What's actually a straw man is arguing that what the Black Caucus wants

WOULDN'T be good for the country as a whole.

Other than the millionaires, we'd all win if the program they advocate were adopted.

[closeupready]

27. Completely agree.

n/t

[spiritual_gunfighter]

20. Vaguely racist much? n/t

[Ken Burch]

2. Somebody's gonna post that the Black Caucus is racist, now

You just know that's coming.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. It's funny.

Because when I hit up an anti-Obama thread, it's generally stuff like this I see littering it. You know, then the annoyingly sarcastic bit about ponies and magic and such.

You people have become so deluded, you're a parody of your own trite bullshit. Then you throw around this bullshit expecting to hear the overused buzz words from Obama supporters. DO you not even get the irony there? :rofl:

Losas.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, it seems a lot of people are taking their shots at the Pres

now..but, he'll come through this, I have no doubt.

[closeupready]

30. Yeah, because all of us here who voted for him (as I assume we all did)

want him to fail. :eyes:

[yurbud]

3. I would applaud this if they added parenthetically (and everyone else except the very wealthy)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. ...and all those who share the same plight.

[QC]

5. They have never liked or supported the president. n/t

[Kdillard]

10. exactly.

[tekisui]

14. They obviously weren't paying attention during the campaign.

[QC]

17. They are filled with poutrage. n/t

[closeupready]

6. Pony, chess, magic wand

n/t

[Cant trust em]

7. At first I read that as "Baucus tells Obama..."

What the hell does Max Bau....oh wait.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. You and me both.... weird. nt

[undeterred]

11. Obama has done too little for the poor, the homeless, the unemployed.

And a disproportionate number of people in those categories are African American.

[ClarkUSA]

19. Would you like some dessert with that whine? What does one serve that compliments aged bullshit?

:rofl:

[closeupready]

26. LOL

:rofl:

[genna]

24. I agree. Not sure what Clark USA is talking about but

I guess constructive criticism is whining. Too bad.

[ClarkUSA]

28. Bullshit anti-Obama rhetoric is not "constructive criticism". I prefer facts...

I'm a liberal and I support Pres. Obama. He's ending the Iraq war/will end the Afghan war in 2011. What he's accomplished in 10
months easily explain his appeal to a large majority of liberal Democrats...

"Obama's claim to a fertile first year doesn't rest on health care alone. There's mounting evidence that the $787 billion economic stimulus he signed in February—combined with the bank bailout package—prevented an economic depression... few mainstream economists seriously dispute that Obama's decisive action prevented a much deeper downturn and restored economic growth in the third quarter.

http://www.slate.com/id/2236708/?from=rss

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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act

Omnibus Public Lands Management Act

Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2009

Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 or FERA (PDF)

Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009

Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009 (Kerry-Lugar includes funding for Obama's global poverty initiative)

Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009

End of 22-Year Discriminatory Travel Ban

Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act

Stopping Conflict-related Sexual Violence Against Women and Children

Why the Stimulus Worked

Green jobs for real people: The story behind the recovery numbers

Obama's Plan: Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation (PDF)

Requiring Strong Supervision And Appropriate Regulation Of All Financial Firms (pdf)

Strengthening Regulation Of Core Markets And Market Infrastructure (pdf)

Strengthening Consumer Protection (pdf)

House Panel Moves Derivatives Toward Obama’s Proposal

FACTBOX: Major U.S. financial regulation reform proposals

Obama says Senate bill on tax havens would stop abuses

Statement by President Barack Obama on House and Senate Introducing Legislation to Crack Down on Overseas Tax Havens

Obama to chair historic U.N. council nuclear meeting

Next comes Obama's budget, health care reform and more.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8730317&mesg_id=8730317

New Obama Policy Bars THOUSANDS of Lobbyists From Federal Advisory Panels
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112602362.html

Approved Stem-Cell Research
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1209/first_wave_of_stem_cells_f3696ffa-5f62-465a-991c-1575e4a149b6.html

And the list goes on... :)

[impik]

33. Not just Bullshit anti-Obama rhetoric, but sheer lies

This president transferred more money to the middle and lower class than any president in decades.

Bunch of teabaggers.

[ClarkUSA]

35. Of course, that's all they've got. They're allergic to FACTS and avoid responding to them, too.

BTW, I love your way with words.

<<This president transferred more money to the middle and lower class than any president in decades.

Bunch of teabaggers.>>

Amen, sister.

[treestar]

37. what was constructive about it?

it does not account for the stimulus or the attempt to get health coverage for everybody.

[Splinter Cell]

29. Total crap....

....and you KNOW it.

[Kahuna]

39. Bullshit. Unemployment ins. is up to almost two years in most states...

That's doing a lot for not only blacks but for all unemployed people. Most safety net programs have been expanded. Pell grants are available not only for college tuition but expanded to include training. People who complain the most have no need of those programs so they don't know they exist. People like me who do need those programs know they exist and are appreciative of what the president and congressional Dems have done to see that we don't fall through the cracks.

[ClarkUSA]

18. So what? They've been whining since Sen. Obama joined the Senate because he didn't kowtow enough.

:shrug:

[tekisui]

21. Does it ever feel to you like everyone but you are a bunch of whiners?

Do yo notice how your bubble is getting smaller?

[genna]

25. Doesn't it seem that way?

O8)

[ClarkUSA]

31. Not at all, but I do feel like it's always the whiners that ask me stupid questions.

:hi:

[Fire1]

22. I saw that this a.m. The Sen from Maryland said unemployment

in the AA communities is more like 17% and 55% among Black males in his district. The Caucus wants the President to take the returned TARP money and use it to target poor urban communities across the country.

[genna]

23. I wondered when I saw Waters on Olberman whether or not it was

a movement or just one CBC member

[impik]

32. He also didn't do enough for

People who lived in Indonesia when they were kids.

Sell out.

[Name removed]

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[closeupready]

38. No, no no - Indonesians don't believe in magic.

So that shortcircuited his bag of tricks. ;)

[treestar]

36. Another country heard from

This will be a relief to the freepers, who I am sure thought Obama would raise the African Americans to royal status.