{"id":70169,"date":"2019-03-05T06:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70169"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:26:04","slug":"the-democrat-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70169","title":{"rendered":"The Democrat Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do you lecture the rest of the country about &#8220;racism&#8221; when one of the people in charge of your foreign policy is a corrosive racist who exudes antisemitism more often than Gerald Ford stumbled?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you&#8217;re today&#8217;s Democrats, that&#8217;s a bit of a problem.  House Dems put together a resolution saying &#8220;No Anti-Semites Here, Nossirreebob&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000169-4b08-dc75-affd-dfb9cd250000\" target=\"_blank\">resolution,<\/a> which began circulating to members Monday night, comes after a backlash from top Democrats who accused [Minneapolis representative Ilhan] Omar of anti-Semitism for referring to pro-Israel advocates\u2019 \u201callegiance to a foreign country.\u201d<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Omar, not being the brightest crayon in the package, is doubling down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[Congresswoman Nita] Lowey condemned Omar\u2019s use of \u201coffensive, painful stereotypes,\u201d leading to a fight on Twitter as Omar dug in on her comments and was cheered by some on the left.<br>\u201cOur democracy is built on debate, Congresswoman!\u201d Omar\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1102296763292139520\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>, later adding, \u201cI have not mischaracterized our relationship with Israel, I have questioned it and that has been clear from my end.\u201d<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s &#8220;just asking questions&#8221; about all them Jiiiews.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where have we heard that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/elRxbGJuCw8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Good job, Minneapolis.  We&#8217;re proud of you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you lecture the rest of the country about &#8220;racism&#8221; when one of the people in charge of your foreign policy is a corrosive racist who exudes antisemitism more often than Gerald Ford stumbled? When you&#8217;re today&#8217;s Democrats, that&#8217;s a bit of a problem. House Dems put together a resolution saying &#8220;No Anti-Semites Here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,155],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-70169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-mn-congressional","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70170,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70169\/revisions\/70170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}