Waters: Rahm’s Chickens Coming Home

Posted by: Tristan

The Hill reports that Representative Maxine Waters, a liberal California Democrat, places the blame for Barack Obama’s difficulty passing health care on Rahm Emanuel.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) blamed now-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s work as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), during which he worked to recruit many centrist candidates, resulting in landslide Democratic victories, for difficulties facing House leaders trying to pass reform legislation.

“That may be difficult for Rahm Emanuel, because remember, he recruited most of them,” Waters said during an interview on MSNBC when asked if the White House could lean on centrist, Blue Dog Democrats to pass reform legislation.

“Now the chickens have come home to roost,” she added.

Of course, Waters doesn’t explain how recruiting more liberal candidates to run in conservative districts would land the Democrats a House majority in the first place.  If she thinks Blue Dog Democrats are an impediment to Obama’s liberal agenda, then would she prefer Republicans?  And why do crazy liberals keep talking about chickens roosting?