Representative Maxine Waters, the long-standing public servant who will not be intimidated, cannot be duplicated, and who should never be underestimated, was reelected to another term last night. Though she was denigrated by the often-agitated president, whose checks are always post-dated, her race culminated with her snatching up a decisive 75 percent of the votes. The constantly implicated head of state'd be wise to abdicate with haste as Waters, who is the ranking member of House Financial Services Committee, is poised to become its chair. Get ready to be investigated!
Maxine Waters' history of memorable battles for her constituents goes back decades but, of course, she hit a new level of public awareness after the election of Donald Trump. She had no time for James Comey's equivocation (remember when he was supposed to save the day?), she had no time for attending the inauguration, she had no time for what she dubbed the Kremlin Klan (a veritable who's who of Oh Yeah, That Shady Guy). But while attempting to question Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, an unrepentant stock villain from a straight-to-video '80s thriller, Waters had nothing but time
When Mnuchin attempted to run out the clock with non-answers, Waters was quick to snatch back what was rightfully hers, alerting the Secretary and the chair of the committee that she was reclaiming her time to speak and launching a guiding metaphor for this whole era. Now she's poised to become the chair herself and all time belongs to her. Forget Daylight Savings Time: the only thing falling back will be her partisan foes. What time is it? Quarter to Maxine; time to get your entire life.
I, for one, am very ready for the Age of Waters. This is the Time Lord I've been waiting for. And I'm ready for every single one of the boundary-breaking, status quo-challenging new representatives who will be joining her in the House. People like Sharice Davis and Deb Haaland, the first Native American women to serve in Congress in the nation's history, Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts' first black woman in Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim women to serve in Congress, Cindy Axne and Abby Finkenauer, the first women to serve Iowa in Congress, Jahana Hayes, Connecticut's first black woman in Congress, Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia, Texas' first Latina women in Congress, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
It's their time.
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