Tweet Perhaps you saw Rep. Maxine Waters’ latest publicity stunt. She’s one of the more senior of some very senior Democrats in Washington — at 82, one year older than Nancy Pelosi and three more than doddering Joe Biden, who was still president at last report. Before that Minneapolis policeman’s trial verdict, Waters suddenly showed up there 1,864 miles from her own district in Los Angeles. She advised the chanting crowd of protesters and — Oh, look! — a covey of hungry cameras with an appetite for anger, “We’re looking for a guilty verdict. And if we don’t (get one), we cannot go away. We’ve got to get more confrontational.”