Thank God for the Black Caucus. As a white guy, I've been regarded as a tea-party type by some for my bitter denunciations of Obama. I can't recall anyone since Lyndon Johnson who had such a disconnect between the rhetoric of his campaign and the dismal reality of his practice.

Actually, I feel Obama is worse than Johnson. The guy is too cool and slick by a factor of ten or twelve, and has too many cards face-down, for me.

If Democrats cannot come up with a fresh nominee in 2012, I will probably vote for Ron Paul. Paul at least seems to have his head straight on foreign policy. Whether Obama really has any policy other than his own re-election is anybody's guess. (I recently got a lot of thumbs down for saying the guys who died in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan had sacrificed their lives for the re-election of Obama. Nobody wanted to hear that. But no one since has been able to explain to me what then it was they did die for.)

I am the mother of black children, but I am not black. Years ago, I marched in civil rights marches and peace marches, and sang "We shall overcome." I marched against the Iraq invasion as well. Now, I am long since ready to march again. We need every jobless person, and every person who has a business and can't afford to hire, to be in Washington, or in other large cities, to march, shoulder to shoulder. We are all connected. I have no money to hire because I have no business. I have no business because people don't have jobs, and therefore don't have money to buy. Small business and the jobless must understand that they are all connected, all victims, and that every ethnic group is affected when black people and brown people have no work. Maxine, you need to team up with the big progressive groups, and let's march!

Someone has to lead the charge to stand up to the ugly politics of the GOP/Tea Baggers & the CBC has taken that lead. I fully support their efforts & cannot wait for the rebuttals from Faux News/Limbaugh etc. It will be dog whistle racism at its most heinous. A Native American, I stand with the CBB.

As a suggestion: The formation of a "New Deal Party", to be integrated into the existing Democratic Party, may be the better approach. While confrontation would still exist as an optional outcome, everyone would understand that a "revamping" of the current formation of the Democratic Party was underway, and that the RepubTeacans were going to be confronted by elected officials who actually possess a political backbone.

It's not just the "OTHERS", it's Obama with his wishy-washy attitude, trying to accommodate the far right instead of being a leader and saying NO!

We have to face the fact that Obama is NOT the man to do the job WE want done. He is a Centrist, and he believes that there can be effective compromise. Well...we KNOW that compromise with the far-right, tea party Republicans is NOT an option. The Republican Party has a BIG problem. IF they cannot compromise, then they will LOSE the next election, and yet, the strangle-hold on the present Republican Congressman is so strong, they dare not "compromise"....And so...we continue the grid-lock. It would probably be better for the country is Obama would step aside, and let another Liberal Dem take his place....Bernie Sanders?...But if this doesn't happen, we can only look forward to more attempts at compromise, and until the Republicans can move the party back to "Center"...they will be locked in the strangle-hold. Sad...but that is the future of today's poltical scenario.

I say this is beyond a racial matter. Obama needs to be pressured from all who expected him to bring change. While blacks have sadly lost more than anyone, the rest of the country should demand more from one who had such great support and hope from the people who supported him. Let's not divide on race. Let's unite on the demands to deal with the issues!

Finally a Democratic Caucus to stand up to the Republican Traitorbagger Caucus.

What -I think- the Tea Party is very aware of and is fighting the death-throes of, is that Whites will pretty soon NOT be the majority population in the US, and the sooner the better as far as this white boy is concerned.
Is it possible that Blacks, Latinos and what remains of the Indigenous Tribes, could form a solid mass as the -ahem- (suggestion only and please, no color-slur intended; just a little tongue in the cheek here) "Hot-Chocolate" or "Beer People" Party (suggestions welcome) if nothing else, just to show the Tea - Buggers how stupid their adopted name is and that people of color are smart, can fight back and indeed have been fighting since the "Wasicu" landed and started importing indentured captives as slaves, or trying to wipe out the people already living here by all means necessary from diseased blankets and poisoned whisky to massacring the Buffalo, ruining their lands and confining them on barren tracts (until of course, uranium, coal and other war making materiel was discovered).
Party affiliation or not, our bro's and sis's HAVE the strength and it should be a bit easier now, if a EVEN vestige of what they fought for in the 1940's, 50's and 60's -and in the Native's Case the 1970's and on, has has any lasting effect (which I think it has), ODD turncoats like "Uncle Tom Thomas" and "Condolizzy" Rice notwithstanding .

Yes, Mr. Obama has not delivered the change he promised, but at the same time he has provided some laws that benefit the working class. If black people don't vote for him next year, they won't be happy with anybody the Republicans put up. And how would we like to see two more Conservatives on the Supreme Court? Stick with your man, but demand more of him at the negotiating table.

How about a Democratic ticket with
Prof. Elizabeth Warren and Senator
Barbara McCulsky running together for the
top jobs? Brains and passion for
"We the People."

It has taken a black caucus to say it the way it should be said and should have been said all along.

Enough, Mr. President, stand up and deliver or get the hell out!

newsflash RSNers:
Loyalty in politics is for THEM (those who are directly paid from it), not for US (those who directy pay TO it).

They (and we) should've left him like a cheap tweed in summer... at least a year ago.

Give them hell Maxine - the time for a fight has been with us for awhile now - if the president won't fight it out for progressive principles then let the Black Caucus to take the on the neo fascists in the Tea Party now in control of the U.S. with the backing of the corporate robber barons.

Out of all the contrived efforts by the so-called "progressive" media to pick gnat shit out of black pepper to find something negative to throw at President Obama, this has got to be one of the most disingenuous lazy efforts yet.

First, the headline is misleading, as the story has nothing to do with any kind of backlash against The President by black voters or members of the Congressional Black Caucus whatsoever.

The sub-title intro claims the CBC says it will emulate the Tea Party. While the author may have accurately characterized the spirit of what Representative Waters and other CBC members intend to do, nowhere in the piece is there a quote by one of them backing up her assertion. The same goes for the contention of exasperation with The President by the CBC. Nothing in the story or the accompanying video confirms the implication.

The story and the video are really about Waters proclaiming to, what sounds like an audience of black supporters of President Obama, that the CBC is now ready to get off its entrenched ass and fight for its constituents for a change. She claims that black legislators are too frightened of angering their constituents to "put pressure on The President." As if they were too stupid to understand the difference between attacking him and putting pressure on him.

Do we really know what the black people are saying, no, we aren't and if this is a representive of what they are saying, this isn't saying too much.....if you are ready, then we are ready....where the hell have they been thru all of this, I say probably trying to get someone to hear them. I'd like to hear more from them instead of just the cacaus speaking for them....it is time that we hear from them and not congress b/c I don't think congress is doing them much good either...I think they are lazy and just think that they agreee with what the president says b/c he is black....I'll bet this isn't the truth as we know it....I think they want a voice too b/c their poverty rate is less than the typical white man's is.....Let them speak instead of a cacaus speakng for them, I'll bet we hear alot more than what they are telling us....