Posted on 03/05/2019 4:04:37 PM PST by BadLands59
Washington — This week, House Democrats will vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and bigotry. It's widely seen as a rebuke of one of their own, freshman Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The latest comment to land Omar in hot water was one she made at a D.C. bookstore, where she slammed congressional support for Israel.
"I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country," she said.
In response, her own party drafted a four-page resolution "rejecting anti-Semitism." Without mentioning Omar by name, it says her comment "suggests that Jews cannot be patriotic Americans and trust neighbors."
"As someone who's Jewish, the idea that you question my loyalty to the country as a lawmaker because of my religion is obviously offensive and deeply hurtful," said Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey.
The president called it a "dark day for Israel," and GOP leaders urged Democrats to go further.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shares the cover of this month's Rolling Stone with Omar, the nation's first Muslim congresswoman. But Pelosi also reprimanded Omar last month for a tweet about a Jewish lobbying group and money.
Omar said she's being held to a double standard. Just last week, a poster was erected in the West Virginia state capitol linking her with 9/11.
"We get to be called names and we get to be labeled as hateful! We know what hate looks like, we experience it every single day," she said.
That argument has resonated with some. A vote on the anti-Semitism resolution was planned for Wednesday. But now some Democrats say it needs to be reworked to call out all bigotry of all kinds.
Thanks, congresswoman. Your continued anti-Semitism is quite helpful.
understood
most regrettable .. our system of representative governance has failed.
as per John Adam’s caution...
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
This is base control.
More like donor base control but I get your point.
Why don’t we just bury them up to their necks and stone them? Make them feel at home.
Well, that might be a little harsh...Maybe just not vote them into Congress or hand them the reigns to our country?? lol
“This is base control. There are a few million liberal Jewish voters, after all.”
definitely. and Jewish campaign contributions are equally important, maybe more so, than their votes ... i REALLY wish the Jewish people in this country would wise up to the fact that the Dems are NOT their friends ...
“I am certainly also not a fan of the Israel First crowd. I am an America, and Christian. I owe no allegiance to Israel, and I have no religious connection to them as they deny Christ with more vigor than most atheists do.”
Almost all of us here (except perhaps you) are great admirers of the Jewish people and Israel. Israel is the only true democracy in the Mideast and the only bulwark of Western civilization in the Mideast. As a class, the Israelites are a tough, intelligent, educated, people who strongly believe in family values and hard work and have fought centuries of oppression, only to finally emerge victorious with their own country again.
The Israelites are civilized winners, whereas the rest of the Mideast is pretty much a bunch of savage losers. They are hated by the Muslims more than the Muslims hate the rest of the world combined, and don’t forget that the first half of the Bible is solely a Jewish book ...
A well and good reminder to us trying to “keep a Republic”.
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