The House will vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in response to freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) latest controversial comments about the U.S.-Israel relationship, a senior Democratic aide said Monday.
Omar has come under fire for saying at a Washington bookstore forum last week that pro-Israel advocates are pushing "allegiance to a foreign country."
Staffs from the offices of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) worked on the resolution over the weekend.
Well, matters have been brought to a head. Unconscionable. These fucking gerontocrats.
Well, if AOC fails to condemn this, that's it for her.
Yep. Still smarting over AOC's flapping her mouth about the finer points of "calling out" and "calling in". BAH.
Ilhan Omar is pretty fearless, that's for sure. I think it is beyond contemptible for the Dem establishment to pull this bullshit. WHY IS NANCY PELOSI STILL THERE?
-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
I'm sorry about my blooming Twitter obsession, I just started being active there.
I've always believed it's way cool to get into popular things a ridiculously long time after they became popular.... Anyway, this journalist Johnson guy pretty well boils down what irks me about AOC's stance.
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-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
AOC is displaying the tactics of a would-be political operator (though again, this is another instance of facile perspectives on an important topic, similar to her disappointing response thus far Re: Venezuela); Omar, on the other hand, is displaying integrity and courage.
We'll see, eventually, if these patterns turn out to be anomalous or part of standard practice for each of these up-and-coming reps.
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Even if you think it misguided, you'd think honest people might have their reasons for wanting to do that.
We meet at the borders of our being, we dream something of each others reality. - Harvey of R.I.
To Justice my maker from on high did incline:
I am by virtue of its might divine,
The highest Wisdom and the first Love.
Her move? Sure. Can we not lose sight of context and proportions? A lot of moves are happening. How one or another chosen avatar responds to a moral question, whether one politician who's been designated "our" symbol hits it on the nose can't be the most important issue.
This is also happening:
We meet at the borders of our being, we dream something of each others reality. - Harvey of R.I.
To Justice my maker from on high did incline:
I am by virtue of its might divine,
The highest Wisdom and the first Love.
As she saw it, the party ostensibly committed to progressive values had become complicit in perpetuating the status quo. Omar says the “hope and change” offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the “caging of kids” at the U.S.-Mexico border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.
“We can’t be only upset with Trump. … His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was,” Omar says. “And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.”
-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
So far, I really like what what I've heard from/of her. If her official bios are accurate, after fleeing Somalia, her family spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to America and English is her second language.
