Posted on 01/05/2019 8:25:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) had not even clocked in a full 24 hours as a congresswoman before making enemies in Washington, including several in her own party. On Thursday night, hours after being sworn in to the 116th Congress, Tlaib grabbed a microphone and pledged to impeach President Trump, whom she referred to as a "mother f***er."
Veterans Democrats in the House noted how...unhelpful her little speech was.
"You can't accomplish very much of anything unless you have civility and show respect for your colleagues," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said. "Those kind of comments do not take us in the right direction."
Cummings, who takes over as new chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, added that Tlaib's comments were "inappropriate."
"We need to be patient," he said, whatever that means.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) had some of the same complaints.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Rashida Tlaib's vow to impeach Trump: "I don't really like that kind of language, but more to the point, I disagree with what she said. It is too early to talk about that intelligently. We have to follow the facts" https://t.co/Ctwc5n4hGK pic.twitter.com/OsCOTQnuj2— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 4, 2019
Even Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), who introduced actual articles of impeachment against Trump, was appalled by Tlaib's remarks.
“That’s not language I would use," he said. "I think the office of the presidency should be treated with respect.”
If only the Democratic leadership took such a strong stance on Tlaib's language. When asked to respond to the freshman representative's comments, the best Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi could come up with was, "I'm not in the censorship business," before pivoting to criticize President Trump's language.
"Generationally, that would not be language I would use, but nonetheless, I don’t think we should make a big deal of it," Pelosi said, adding that what Tlaib said was "nothing worse" than what's come out of the president's mouth.
Wait until they get a load of the ugly anti Semitic things she has said.
Don'r be silly, she's a democrat!
You know what EC? She doesn’t GAS about what you think.
“Unhelpful”. Only because of the negative response to Rashida’s little diatribe.
I think they prefer scimitars...
“As long as at least two thirds of senate Republicans still back him, he is impervious.”
Who here trusts the GOPe to stand by Trump? I don’t. I think enough will bail on him that his presidency is peril.
I agree with you...its all a big theatrical show for voters..man, we got a sick country.
Trump simply needs to say of the remarks:
More proof that the Democrat Party is the largest HATE group in America. They have NO answers to what can make America great again. Michigan is a great state. SAD they have such a poor representative.
Yup. And it’s getting sicker every day.
Dems share turf as needed to advance their agenda. Their disagreements are purely superficial.
Wow! When you’ve lost Elijah Cummings....
Yep.
And Rep Hank Johnson was civil when he basically said that Trump was Hitler? LOL
I still think Trump is better off to go bold in the face Pelosi and her band of misfits.
in the face “of” Pelosi and her band of misfits...
The great news about this little dust up is that with the Democrats in charge of the House, all of us are going to see who these people are, how they think, and what they want to do. All of this will hurt the Democrats and help us. That’s why the Democrat leaders are upset, it’s upsetting their propaganda campaign.
“H” is for HOUSE, right?
So, will Nancy Pelosi give Rashida Tlaib favorable committee assignments to show she has no hard feelings about her offensive outburst — and also to maintain support from the Democrats’ rising Islamist wing?
Will Rashida’s committee assignments be better than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, even though Ms. O-C has become a more-or-less loyal follower of Nancy’s — mainly for the very purpose of receiving favorable assignments?
Will Rashida continue to make offensive outbursts, now that Nancy has declared them to be no big deal?
At the moment, the Democrats have three loose cannons — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Maxine Waters, and Rashida Tlaib — a veritable vaudeville act capable of amusing, offending, and dumbfounding with their foolishness every minute of the newsday. And since they’re all far-Leftists, maybe we should start calling them the Marx Sisters.
Bull....they LOVE that talk! She is the TYPICAL DEMOCRAT......VILE, EVIL ANTI-CHRISTIAN.
Just wait til Monday or Tuesday....she WILL be wearing a hajib.
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