The CBC and the DCOSP
Joe Brichacek /
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is fed up with President Barack Obama and his administration. The 43-member caucus, led by Representative Maxine Waters (D-Ca), says that Barack Obama is not listening to the needs of African Americans on the important issues of the day. The nation’s first African American president, a candidate who carried 95 percent of the African American vote (versus 4% for his opponent) in the 2008 presidential election, is alienating the African American lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and the lawmakers are threatening to do the unthinkable, vote with the Republicans (GOP).
Rep. Waters suggested the CBC’s 43 members could vote with the GOP to scuttle a variety of Democratic bills if Obama and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel don’t address what she thinks is a lack of understanding of the CBC’s wide-ranging goals.