Republicans help torpedo resolution to censure Tlaib over Israel criticism
Highlights: The vote was something of a surprise: Tlaib, a staunch liberal who’s been harshly critical of Israel, has few fans in the GOP when it comes to Middle Eastern politics. It’s unclear why several Republicans came to her rescue during Wednesday’s vote.
The censure resolution — sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — had accused Tlaib of “leading an insurrection” for her participation in an anti-war protest last month at the Capitol, organized by Jewish groups, which featured scores of arrests.
Pro-Israel Democrats, who might have been inclined to censure Tlaib’s comments, had hammered Greene for her inaccurate characterization of a peace protest — albeit a rowdy one — and for sensationalizing Tlaib’s role in orchestrating it. They were also leery that Greene’s “insurrectionist” language had trivialized the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Trump.
I know Margie is as dumb as the day is long, but did she really forget what leading an insurrection actually looks like already?
No, she intentionally used this language to dilute the impact of the actual, real, attempted insurrection on Jan 6. She's trying to normalize the phrase so people don't associate the word with violently storming the capitol trying to hang the vice president.
Just like how Trump has started calling the January 6th insurrectionists that were sentenced to jail "the J6 Hostages." It's meant to both evoke images of people being wrongly held against their will by an evil group and to trivialize the word "hostage."
Yep, they've been calling every protest at the Capitol an insurrection, so they can lump Jan 6th into the bucket of 'protests at the Capitol', which are basically a weekly occurrence that typically don't even make the news.
Isn't this the Karl Rove strategy? Accuse your opponents of the things that you're guilty of so it muddies the waters if they accuse you?
This came up at the same time that Grand Moff Santos's expulsion came up. I bet there was some horse trading to ensure neither motion got a majority.
I doubt it. Censure is basically meaningless. Nowhere near getting kicked out of Congress. There’s no point in deal making for it, since it’s symbolic
You do lose Committee assignments, though. But, I agree.
Only if you’re the chair, not a committee assignment iirc
Theyre damn ravenous over appeasing Israel. Censure for just criticizing.
The damage Hilary did to the Democrat party will only worsten until they self correct back from progressivism to liberalism.
Hilary is a fairly conservative Democrat. Hell, she's nearly a Republican.
The GOP is becoming irrelevant and some of their reps actually might give a fuck about how things are going.
Where this optimism comes from, I have no idea
Your comedy routine is sad and dark. Wheres your next show? I'll be there
Call your mother she's got your ticket already
This is the best summary I could come up with:
House lawmakers voted Wednesday to torpedo a resolution censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for her harsh criticisms of Israel in the wake of Hamas’s deadly attacks last month.
The censure resolution — sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — had accused Tlaib of “leading an insurrection” for her participation in an anti-war protest last month at the Capitol, organized by Jewish groups, which featured scores of arrests.
Greene’s three-page censure resolution charged Tlaib with “antisemitic activity” and “sympathizing with terrorist organizations.” It listed a number of Tlaib’s criticisms of Israel in recent years, the most recent being a statement she released one day after Hamas’s attack on Israel that called for “lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”
Greene last week moved to force a vote on the censure resolution, a rarely used procedural gambit that compelled leadership — under the helm of newly minted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
That new trend was on full display last week, when first-term Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) moved to force a vote on a resolution censuring Greene shortly after the Georgia Republican did the same for her legislation penalizing Tlaib.
“The fact that on the very first day of his leadership, he lets Marjorie Taylor Greene bring to the floor a resolution that is riddled with lies and falsehoods on my colleague, it won’t stand,” Balint told reporters last week.
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