Why do we keep electing this guy? He’s nothing but an embarassment and a pain in the ass. Others around the country refer to him as “mentally ill,” which begs to question what that means for 7th district voters who keep electing this guy term after term. What erally gets me about this story is that Obey is a pitch black pot calling the kettle black here since he’s an earmark champion with $115,822,000 in pork spending in 2009 alone (compared to Maxine Water’s $10,053,514 for the same period).

Obey-Waters clash on House floor

 House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wisc.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) engaged in a late afternoon shouting match on the House floor after Obey reportedly rebuffed Waters on a $1 million earmark request, aides and witnesses said.

Witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared that Waters pushed or shoved Obey.

The pair were seen shouting at each other and had to be separated by members — who were gathered on the floor casting final votes before heading off to a party at the White House.

Waters, according a Democratic staffer familiar with the situation, approached Obey to ask him to fund one of her longstanding earmarks, the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.

Obey — who irked Waters a few weeks back by banning “Monuments to me” funding projects named after the politicians that earmark them — told her no, emphatically enough to be heard across the chamber.

“I’m not going to approve that earmark!” Obey shouted.

The two veteran Democrats — each pugnacious and 71 years old — began shouting, with the L.A. area-Congresswoman following Obey around the chamber, reportedly suggesting he channel the vocational money through a local school district.

At some point, they collided, witnesses say, with one Obey ally claiming the lean Waters “tried to shove” the stout Obey.

UPDATED: Waters spokesman Michael Levin called to say that the center — which provides a wide array of health care, automotive, GED and job preparedness training programs — was named after Waters before she entered the House by LA school officials.

“That’s a point she was trying to make with Chairman Obey,” Levin said.

The program Levin said, serves hundreds of low-income people a year and is located near four housing projects with sky-high unemployment rates. Waters’ funding request is needed to keep the center going, he added, because may of the centers’ state grants are on the chopping block, a result of the California’s staggering deficit.

He refused to comment on the specifics of the scrap, saying, “I wasn’t a witness, but it’s my understanding it was a heated exchange.”

Waters told colleagues that Obey “touched me first,” according to The Hill.

“One testament to her work is the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center, a multimillion dollar campus providing education and employment opportunities to residents of the Watts area,” reads a description of the center posted on her Web site.

I received this from from Campaign for Liberty:

Dear Friend of Liberty,

Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed bill is now up to 186 cosponsors!

That means over 40% of the entire House of Representatives is currently signed onto HR 1207.

Unfortunately, your Representative David R. Obey is still holding out.

We’ve come a long way, but now it’s time to push for an outright majority of the full House.

And that starts with turning up the pressure on David R. Obey.

Ron Paul needs you to keep writing, calling, and emailing to convince your Representative to support Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill.

In fact, you should call right now.

David R. Obey’s Congressional Office number is (202) 225-3365.  Tell him to join the 186 of his colleagues in cosponsoring Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill.

Not only has over forty percent of the House cosponsored HR 1207, but Barney Frank has even promised Ron Paul that he will hold hearings in the House Financial Services Committee.

When these hearings occur in a few months, Ron wants to have a majority of House members on board . . . so there will be no stopping Audit the Fed.

It is amazing what we’ve been able to accomplish in the House on the back of tireless grassroots efforts.

And you should not relent until David R. Obey has finally agreed to support sound money and transparency by cosponsoring HR 1207.

“They ain’t going to call us a do-nothing Congress.” – Rep. David Obey

Dave Obey, one of the longest serving and egotistical people in the US House is trying to use his political muscle to help push for universal health care. While this isn’t all that surprising, it is absolutely frustrating none-the-less. Obey is a man obsessed with his own power who has proven time and agian that he is out of touch with the common man. He is a big government cheerleader, presumably because big government equates to big power for Mr. Obey.

It’s time to get rif of this man. He carries no redeeming qualities and has done massive harm to the foundations of this state and this country.