Dems Running Scared of the Radicals – And Trump Made It Happen

7/17/19
 
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from The Wall Street Journal,
7/17/19:

Anti-American Squad’s Vile Press Conference.

Squad press conference:

Here are a few of the things the Democrat ‘squad’ has said & done.

the squad says:

-AOC says migrants were drinking from toilets – inflamatory and untrue – not called out on it and media lets the accusation be repeated 10s of times a day.
-concentration camps at the border – imflamatory and untrue – again, no condemnation
-attacking border patrol
-anti-semitic comments by Omar
-Omar comments about 9/11, Trump’s ‘some people’ reference
-Omar comments about Al Qaeda
-Anti-semitic Facebook with Tlaib

-“we don’t want anyone of any color who doesn’t agree with us”-Pressly
-vulgarity
-vile attacks on the President – anyone done that against Obama, the media would have been on it for weeks.
-fire bombing of Seattle ICE facility because of AOC language on concentration camps. – no media attention at all!

RUSH: So let’s review here what happened yesterday.

AOC and one of the others, Tlaib or Ilhan Omar, got all over Pelosi, branded Pelosi a racist. Then Trump comes out, does his thing. And the left has this mad dash reaction. Now, Pelosi is in the strangest position of her life.

Pelosi is worried that all of this talk of impeachment, which will lose in the Senate, and she’s saying if we pursue impeachment and there’s no verdict, he’s essentially been proclaimed not guilty, we can’t do that, we can’t have this guy said to be not guilty going into the 2020 election.

So she’s been trying to talk sense into all these people but placate them at the same time. And they will not be placated. Nadler won’t be placated. Some of these little wackos in his committee won’t be placated. And the gang here of Cortez and her bunch, they will not be placated. So Pelosi was forced to go to the House floor yesterday. It is very rare the Speaker goes to the floor. She had to pander to these people. She cannot tamp them down.

Well, that caused all kinds of fireworks because there is a House rule that was written by one of our slave-owning founders by the name of Thomas Jefferson that says personal insults of the president are in violation of House decorum. Personal insults of other members. And it specifically says that no racial insults or comments will be made about the president.

Well, the media is reporting this as a slave-owning founder protecting what he knew would be future racist presidents. So they’re dumping all over Thomas Jefferson …She had to pile on with “Trump is a racist”…Well, that caused the Republicans to stand up, Doug Collins, “Wait a minute, you’re in violation of House rules. You need to be censured. That language is not permitted.” So Pelosi was ushered off the floor.

Pelosi went and nuked all of that just so they could say Trump violates our values. They blew up House rules and House decorum for the express purpose of being able to accuse Trump of it.

It’s classic how Trump is driving these people crazy. Pelosi would never have done what she did yesterday under normal circumstances. She would have never gone to the floor to call Trump a racist. She’d leave that to the media. She would have never done it. Let the media do it. Let media guests do it. But now they’ve got to deal with Cortez and the whack jobs. And so Pelosi has to pander. And a floor fight erupted because Pelosi did this ahead of a vote to condemn Trump’s racist comments!

It was comical to watch this.

So Pelosi this afternoon had a weekly press briefing to try to explain all this. Chief congressional correspondent of CBS News Nancy Cordes …

PELOSI: That language that the president used was beneath the dignity of the president, beneath the dignity of the people he was criticizing. We weren’t saying that he was racist. We were saying that the words that he used were racist.

RUSH: Oh, that’s her cover now. “We weren’t saying the president is racist. It’s his words that were racist.” Well, of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the other whack jobs, “No, no, no, he is a racist. You’re copping out again!” they are saying of Pelosi.

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