House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will need a bottle of chardonnay or two after cleaning up yet another mess the “Squad” has made over the past 48 hours or so.
It all began when Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., found herself yet again embroiled in another controversy, this time for erroneously explaining that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has affiliations to Hamas and Hezbollah, was founded to restore Muslim civil liberties after 9/11, an event she described by saying merely, “some people did something.”
This should really go without saying, but the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil, which left nearly 3,000 people dead and more than double the number injured, was not “something,” and the degenerate, death-obsessed animals who orchestrated it were not “some people.”
Predictably the comments were met with outright ire, and fellow freshman congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas called out Omar’s remarks as “unbelievable” on Twitter.
You’ll never guess who commented next.
You refuse to cosponsor the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, yet have the audacity to drum resentment towards Ilhan w/completely out-of-context quotes.
In 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost ALL US domestic terrorist killings. Why don’t you go do something about that? https://t.co/rkb92IxkKX
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 11, 2019
This is how politicians act at their worst. To defend an idea or an ally (as in this case), they reach for the nearest tool in the drawer, often finding something of little relevance (again, as in this case), and use it to hit back.
In principle, it’s wonderful to see people who have worked in the real world, in Ocasio-Cortez’s case as a bartender, cultivating a base and entering Congress. Our Founding Fathers never intended to create a professional political class, and if anything, a street-smart millennial ought to bring an important perspective to a body that often fails to reflect those they’re supposed to represent.
But the notion of a bartender impugning the patriotism of Crenshaw — a Navy SEAL, a Purple Heart recipient with two Bronze Stars, and one who literally lost his eye in service to this country after 9/11 — is beyond disrespectful. It’s abhorrent. It’s unbecoming not only of a congresswoman but of a human being.
Ocasio-Cortez is more than welcome to try and defend her anti-Semitic pal by justifying the context or intentions of her words. But the next time she wants to challenge the patriotism of veterans like Crenshaw, she ought to check herself and maybe consider staying in her lane.
Oh, and in case if you forgot what “some people did something” actually looked like, the New York Post provided an appropriate reminder this morning.
Today’s cover of the New York Post. pic.twitter.com/pEnQryZNlx
— Dylan Stableford (@stableford) April 11, 2019
