Racists!

By PoliPundit ~ November 19th, 2009 @ 3:46 pm

Black Democrat Congressmen criticize Obama:

House Democrats are feeling so much pressure to do something about unemployment that they postponed a much-anticipated vote today on comprehensive financial regulation reform.

The Financial Services Committee had finished hearing amendments around 3 p.m. and recessed, planning to return at 4 for a final vote on the package. But during the break, some of the Democrats on the committee pigeonholed Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and told him they wouldn’t vote for the bill because of the deepening problem of unemployment in their districts.

It’s a shocking setback — and direct evidence of how terrified Democrats are that the failure to create jobs could cost incumbents their seats.

The refusal to vote for the package, a key priority of the administration, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in particular, was portrayed as a direct rebuke of the White House’s “lack of response to the economic situation.”

“We will not be proceeding to passage today,” Frank began. “I have been meeting with members of the committee, particularly the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who have informed me that they are troubled by what they believe is the lack of response to the economic situation that is confronting them on the part of the administration, and therefore do not feel that they could — in deference to the various constituencies that they represent — vote for passage.” [emphasis mine.]