voted against Israel on every item that came before the House.
As do most of the Black Caucus.
Donna Edwards
Posted on 02/20/2017 8:18:05 AM PST by bryan999
President Donald Trump’s “constant fear-mongering’’ about terrorism is “irresponsible and dangerous.’’ He needs to “stop attacking the legitimacy of the judiciary.’’ He picked an attorney general with “anti-liberty” positions on surveillance and police seizure of property.
Those tough assessments come not from one of the president’s critics in the Democratic Party, but from a conservative Republican House member whose district decisively backed Mr. Trump in the election.
Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan has emerged as one of the leading Republican critics of the president, using a tool Mr. Trump himself often employs—an assertive presence on Twitter—to challenge and even taunt the president. While other House Republicans who were skeptical of Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign have since toned down their criticism, Mr. Amash, who has 100,000 Twitter followers, has remained a vocal critic.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
WHO??????
Or at least he says he is. . . . A true Christian would not add fodder to the atheistic, Muslim enemies in this Nation
Justin Amash’s ethnic background is PALESTINIAN.
Who ?
In 2011, Amash was one of six members of Congress who voted “Nay” on House Resolution 268 reaffirming U.S. commitment to a negotiated settlement of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through direct Israeli–Palestinian negotiation, which passed with 407 members in support.
In 2014, he was one of eight members of Congress who voted “Nay” on a $225 million package to restock Israel’s Iron Dome missile defenses, which passed with 398 members in support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Amash#Foreign_affairs
“Leading critic of Trump”? A third of the country hates and criticizes Trump, a third thinks he’s just about perfect, and a third just wants to see the new cute cat video. There are no “leading critics” of President Trump, just a mindless mob filled with hate.
Does anyone know how this turd manages to get elected? Does he represent an “arab-rich” area of Michigan, or just a bunch of brain dead white people?
Amash is an asshat.
Justin Amash another name to remember at election time.
The left is imploding.
Wow, he went to a townhall and didn’t run away. He has more spine than most of the GOP. Every Congress needs a Amash to yell no in the room, and at least mention FReedom.
Who?
I don’t see how he can be a Christian and a Libertarian. Near-libertarian, maybe, but not the full-blown real deal like Walter Block or Robert Higgs.
Plus, he sees the judiciary branch as superior to the executive branch. The judiciary branch is directly responsible for most of the governmental overreach that Amash lays at the feet of the president.
Conclusion: Amash is a poser, on both counts.
voted against Israel on every item that came before the House.
As do most of the Black Caucus.
Donna Edwards
WSJ had an editorial meeting last week where snowflake reporters complained about too much pro-Trump coverage to management. I’ve seen an uptick in this sort of negative nonsense from them since then.
And more importantly he is a Christian, like Iman Obama.
Amash has always been more of an attention seeking nutball than a libertarian, IMO.
Interesting.
“The wsj didn’t find that worth mentioning in the article. Oh good grief, does biased and fake news have no boundaries?”
The WSJ and its mediot cohorts don’t write articles for people capable of doing a google or some other search on the subjects of their article.
Their articles are aimed at those with IQs between 40-60!
A friend just sent me this: (which came from a newspaper as an editorial).
Pretty good summation of where we are today. Even any number of the “10%” aren’t worth much, as evidenced by Donna Edwards behavior.
The Black Dilemma
“For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites.
The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?
The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since. Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedmans Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball.
Their new laws intruded into people’s lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless handwringing to close the achievement gap. To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to “Celebrate Diversity” and “Say No to Racism”. Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.
Some thought that what W.E.B. DuBois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing. Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them. Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment. Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite would tell us that this doesn’t mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, and more opportunities.
But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue it’s a problem of culture, as if culture creates people’s behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame white privilege. But since 1965, when the elites opened Americas doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India, people who are not white, not rich, and not connected, have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country’s violent crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.
The experiment has failed. Not because of white culture, or white privilege, or white racism. The fundamental problem is that American black culture has evolved into an unfixable and crime ridden mess. They do not want to change their culture or society, and expect others to tolerate their violence and amoral behavior. They have become socially incompatible with other races by their own design, not because of the racism of others - but by their own hatred of non-blacks. Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity. The elites explain everything with racism, and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point.”-—
“You can’t legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government doesn’t first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they don’t have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
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