Nov. 28, 2011, 4:58 p.m. EST
Maxine Waters: More polarizing than Frank?
Heir apparent to ranking member seat could hurt bipartisanship
By Russ Britt, MarketWatch
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — When U.S. Rep. Barney Frank — a villain to many in the Republican Party — steps down after 30 years as the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services committee in 2013, his party may well end up choosing an even more polarizing figure to replace him.
Maxine Waters, the Los Angeles-area congresswoman who once suggested the 1992 L.A. uprisings should be considered more of a “rebellion” than a riot, is the likely successor to Frank even though her appointment would be more than a year away — and there are potential roadblocks.
Either way, Waters could end up leading Democratic committee members even further left than Frank, thus cutting back on what little bipartisanship exists on the two sides of the aisle in the panel.
“It’s hard to think of anyone more polarizing than Barney Frank but Maxine Waters manages to do it,”
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