House Majority Whip James Clyburn
House Majority Whip James Clyburn
These are timeless tenets.
If you can’t grasp them, you aren’t qualified to be in Congress, period.
These people are dictators at heart.
Clyburn: Ilhan Omar’s Experience ‘More Personal’ than Holocaust Is to Many Jews
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) on Wednesday defended Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over her latest antisemitic outburst, arguing that her experience of fleeing violence in Somalia is “more personal” than Jews whose parents survived the Holocaust.
Omar is facing blowback after suggesting last week that pro-Israel groups pressure members of Congress to pledge “allegiance” to a foreign country. In an interview with the Hill, Clyburn criticized reports omitting mention of Omar escaping Somalia and spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before immigrating to the U.S. “There are people who tell me, ‘Well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.’ ‘My parents did this.’ It’s more personal with her,” said Clyburn. “I’ve talked to her, and I can tell you she is living through a lot of pain.”
Clyburn is the latest high-profile Democrat to attempt to defend Omar’s repeated trafficking in anti-Jewish tropes. 2020 Democrat presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) issued statements on Omar, raising concerns that condemning the Minnesota Democrat could both make her a target of violence and stifle policy debates regarding Israel.
Statements like this are a gift horse to conservatives able to articulate why we even have the Bill of Rights. I see envision a commercial on this alone.
It would. Because by the time it came up for a vote, the Tree of Liberty would’ve been well-watered.
If the automobile was invented today, there is no way the government would allow us to have them.
And aspirin would be a prescription drug, probably.
I’m truly sick of these meddlers at the Federal level.
How both Due Process Clauses, Jimbo?
You know the ones that supposedly protect all of us from government enforced discrimination?
All yo’ “Firmative Axshun” programs?
Would they pass muster?
Clyburn’s probably right about the 3rd amendment but he is very wrong about the 2nd.
He’s probably right. Because so many people nowadays are not fully educated on what’s happening, or on how to examine a topic objectively. Too many opinions are now based on apparent feelings of the peer group, vs conclusions of the individual.
He is right...because the power-hungry Democrats would NEVER allow Americans to have any kind of self-reliance, gun-ownership freedom nor would they allow the States to have ANY powers!!
Go back to the Constitution of the individual states BEFORE the Federal Constitution came about.
Most of those rights were already in the State Constitutions.
Damn right it would pass today.
One need only reflect on which party has a majority
in the house to see that his statement is correct.
He’s talking about me, of course. I say all the time that the 5th Amendment should not apply to anyone in elective office, and especially not Congress. :-)
“You know what, I really believe sincerely that the climate we’re in today, if the Bill of Rights the first 10 Amendments of the United States Constitution, were put before the public today, I’m not too sure we’d hold onto the Bill of Rights,” Clyburn said. “Especially when I see what people are doing with the Second Amendment. No telling what they’d do with the First Amendment.”
Which is Reasons #1-1,000,000 why we do NOT want a convention of the states. Not now, not EVER until we are certain that we will not have a bunch of statist, inside-the-Beltway scumbags remove the protection of our most basic rights from the Constitution.
The convention then amended the model of proposed government and the States United into the United states.
So, if the Congress today had been in charge, and had refused to insert the bill of rights then it would never have become possible to form the United States.
“.... her experience of fleeing violence in Somalia is “more personal” than Jews whose parents survived the Holocaust.
And “more personal” than African-Americans whose ancestors were slaves, right Jimmy??
"You know what, I really believe sincerely that the climate we're in today, if the Bill of Rights the first 10 Amendments of the United States Constitution, were put before the public today, I'm not too sure we'd hold onto the Bill of Rights," Clyburn said. "Especially when I see what people are doing with the Second Amendment. No telling what they'd do with the First Amendment."He and his ilk would not ever approve of them. Which is exactly why we should never have a Convention of States (COS) or a Constitutional Convention.
What ever you want to call it, would be a recipe for disaster...guaranteed.
That says it all about the Democrat Party now doesn’t it.
Dems would vote against the US Constitution if they had a chance..they absolutely despise this country
“I’ll tell you I run into people every day who would like to see so much of those guarantees uprooted.””
I hope he said this about his fellow Democrats with concern.
Or maybe he can start considering the other amendments afer 10 that he would not be too keen on being eroded?