In other news....
It is immensely hilarious seeing these Demofascists mussing each others hair over the despicable Jew-hating Omar...
House Democratic leaders are struggling to contain the controversy over Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments about Israel, with the caucus fighting behind closed doors over whether — and how — to respond.
Tensions ran high at a caucus meeting Wednesday as some Democrats privately vented that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team had failed to adequately respond to the escalating political crisis, with too little outreach to their own rank and file.
Freshman Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut stood up and confronted Pelosi directly, arguing that she shouldn’t have to learn about the official Democratic Caucus response from MSNBC. Hayes said she now has to vote on a resolution that she’s barely read, without a private briefing from leadership, according to five sources.
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee is now rushing to rewrite that resolution to condemn hate speech more broadly to win over a group of lawmakers — including progressives and lawmakers of color — who have rushed to Omar’s defense.
“It’s not just the Congressional Black Caucus. Many members of the Democratic caucus are concerned,” Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Black Caucus, said of the previous draft of the resolution. “We want to make clear that we stand against the general rise of hatred.”
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Bass, as well as Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who leads the Congressional Progressive Caucus, were adamant Wednesday they would not support any resolution that specifically named Omar — something that several Jewish Democrats had privately pushed for in the resolution.
Several members from those caucuses also said they thought the measure as drafted, which did not did not specifically name Omar, was an unfair rebuke.
“We need to have an equity in our outrage,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a close friend of Omar’s and a member of both the CBC and CPC. “Islamophobia needs to be included in this. We need to denounce all forms of hate. There is not hierarchy of hurt.”
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Dingell, who has large Arab-American and Muslim communities in her district. “This hatred that’s dividing this country is really, really disturbing, and we need to fight back on it, and not play into this issue.”
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“I do not believe that Ilhan Omar is anti-Semitic,” Schakowsky said. “I absolutely believe that she has become, as a result, a target. I think the Republicans love that, and frankly, I think the media loves to exploit the divisions.”
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Meanwhile, House Republican leaders on Wednesday morning reiterated their calls for Democrats to remove Omar from her spot on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The panel’s Jewish chairman, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), had previously derided Omar’s “vile, anti-Semitic slur,” though he said Wednesday morning he would not support ousting her from the committee.
Republicans have tried to paint a contrast between how Democrats and Republicans have responded to controversies involving one of their own, with GOP leaders repeatedly highlighting how they kicked Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) off his committee assignments after he made racist remarks in January.
“Representative Omar embodies a vile, hate-filled, anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bigotry,” said GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (Wyo.), one of the first Republicans to call out King.https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/ilhan-omar-israel-democrats-1206740Awesome. All twisted in knots and unable to appease everyone!
This is what happens when dogma and thin-skin collide.
And the hypocrisy throughout this is crap is thick as tar!
The moron Hayes -
"shouldn’t have to learn about the official Democratic Caucus response from MSNBC"
"has to vote on a resolution that she’s barely read, without a private briefing from leadership"
Umm...Obamacare ring any bells, ding-a-ling?
SSDD sweetie!
The Sundry fascisti -
“We want to make clear that we stand against the general rise of hatred.”
"We need to denounce all forms of hate. There is not hierarchy of hurt."
"This hatred that’s dividing this country is really, really disturbing, and we need to fight back on it, and not play into this issue."
Uhh huh...unless it is hate piled upon Trump, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law, his son, his advisors, his department heads, his friends...whites, men, heterosexuals, Christians, gun owners...etc etc!
The pure takiyya parroted by Schakowsky -
"I do not believe that Ilhan Omar is anti-Semitic."
I think the media loves to exploit the divisions.
...with added hate - "I think the Republicans love that"
Feeding the crocodile and patting yourself on the back for winning by being the last eaten (or so you think!)...and being disengenuous about needing your presscorpse to pimp those divisions and blame others for it! Right out of Marx & Hitler!
And nice try on the consistency point Liz...but we know there is one set of rules for fascisti and the one for their enemies!
And that cannot end until the support system is rendered into mulch.