Squad’s Success in Moving Democrats on Israel Portends Trouble on Other Issues

Lawrence Kudlow June 15, 2021

During the latest battle between Israel and Hamas, I wrote about how the Democratic Party, which used to be Israel’s greatest defender, has turned against the Jewish state. Even formally strong supporters of Israel, like Senator Chuck Schumer, have been taking a powder, staying silent in the face of criticism of Israel by such far-left, pro-Palestine terrorist-sympathizers as Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the so-called Squad.

Such figures as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush have pushed the Democratic Party out of Israel’s camp. Not all Democrats, by any means. The party, though, is not what it was on this issue. It’s the GOP that is now Israel’s great defender.

This tectonic political shift was triggered in large part by President Trump. He kept his promise to move our embassy to Jerusalem and led the negotiations that won the Abraham Accords. The Saudis were favorable and might have formally joined were Mr. Trump re-elected. The key point is that the road to peace no longer ran through the Palestinian Authority...........To Read More...

Ilhan Omar Equates US and Israel with Hamas and Taliban. Here’s why she’s wrong.

June 9, 2021 By Robert Spencer

The fiercely patriotic and morally scrupulous Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Hypocrisy) showed yet again Monday that she is a master at appealing to the Democratic Party’s core constituency. She tweeted:

“We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban. I asked [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] where people are supposed to go for justice.” 

Yes, that’s right: she equated the United States and Israel, both of which go out of their way to avoid civilian casualties, with jihad terror groups that target civilians and use them as human shields. Where are people supposed to go for justice? Not to Ilhan Omar.

While it is entirely within the realm of possibility that the forces of the United States and Israel may at various times have committed “unthinkable atrocities,” there is one immediate difference between them and Hamas and the Taliban: in the U.S. and Israel, those who commit “unthinkable atrocities,” such as intentionally targeting civilians out of pure malice and hatred, with no conceivable military objective, are arrested and tried, and dishonorably discharged from the military if found guilty. 

Hamas and the Taliban, by contrast, celebrate people who target civilians among those who are considered the “enemy” as heroes. Go to Gaza, and you’ll find posters on walls celebrating jihad terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians, and streets and city squares named after the murderers.............To Read More...

Pelosi Condemns Ilhan Omar for Comparing Israel, U.S. to Hamas and the Taliban

Spencer Brown Jun 10, 2021 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her leadership team issued a joint statement criticizing comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that compared the United States and Israel with terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Taliban. 

"Legitimate criticism of the policies of both the United States and Israel is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate. And indeed, such criticism is essential to the strength and health of our democracies," stated Pelosi along with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA), Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Caucus Vice Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA). 

"But drawing false equivalencies between democracies like the U.S. and Israel and groups that engage in terrorism like Hamas and the Taliban foments prejudice and undermines progress toward a future of peace and security for all.".................To Read More.....

Will the Squad’s Implosion Fracture the Democrats?

June 10, 2021 — John Hinderaker

Over the last few years, it has been considered a truism that the energy in the Democratic Party comes from the far Left, largely in the person of the Squad headed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. The conventional wisdom has also been that the extremism of that wing of the party is a problem, and that the party’s leaders need to tamp it down without alienating what is, by far, the most energetic portion of their base.

This balancing act has never been easy, and it looks like it may be collapsing in the wake of Ilhan Omar’s crazed denunciation of the United States and Israel, which I wrote about here. To save you a click, this is the tweet that started the current controversy:..........To Read More..... 

My Take - The party leadership was too afraid to do anything until now.  And it's going to be fun to watch them eat these misfits alive, at least until they're no longer in power and Pelosi and company retire.  Then it will put the lunatics in charge of the Democrat asylum.

'Squad' Member Cori Bush Wants Biden To Grant Clemency To Everybody On Death Row

Submitted by Tyler Durden on Wed, 12/16/2020

The ‘Squad’s’ newest member Cori Bush is demanding President-elect Joe Biden move to grant clemency to everybody currently sitting on death row.  Bush’s view shows once again that there isn’t any level of criminal the group won’t embrace.  The Missouri Democrat made her views clear in an op-ed with Time Magazine on Monday.

“If [Biden] truly opposes the death penalty,” she wrote, “he must do everything in his power to stop it for good. Granting clemency to all on federal death row is his most effective tool.”

Bush went on to describe the death penalty as “murder in the name of justice” and drew a link between it and the dark stain of racism in American history.

“Ending the death penalty is about justice,” she argued, seemingly unaware that families of their victims need justice as well. “It’s about mercy. It’s about putting a stop to this nation’s dark history of lynching and slavery.”

“We must build a fair criminal-legal system on a foundation of mercy, due process and equity,” continued Bush. “We must break the cycles of death, devastation and trauma that have broken Black and brown communities like mine.”..........To Read More.....

• AOC, Omar, and Squad Want to Free 500,000 Fat Criminals
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Squad breaks from leash, prepares to devour Nancy Pelosi

September 30, 2019 By Monica Showalter

How do we describe this sudden and irrational "impeach Trump" feeding frenzy coming from House speaker Nancy Pelosi? Take a look at what the Federalist suspects: that Pelosi has lost control of her "Squad" of far-left socialist-totalitarian activists.  According to George S. Bardmesser, a Washington attorney who knows the ways of the swamp:

Impeachment proceedings are a given, because her caucus now almost unanimously demands it, and her caucus demands it because the Democratic Party has been hijacked by the Resistance crazies and the hard left. Pelosi has also run out of cute euphemisms for impeachment—  the usual Pelosi mumbo-jumbo, like "inquiry," "investigation," and "official inquiry," no longer work without giving the crazies the real deal.

Pelosi had to get ahead of the tidal wave before it drowned her. As Spartan women used to say to their men, "Return with the shield, or on it." Pelosi, who generally does not lack in political courage, would rather return with the shield this time, and live to fight another day. So she chose the better of two bad options. Turns out her party's dogs of war have slipped their leash. Her miserable options are to support them, wrapping the whole impeachment effort into a phony baloney concern for "the Constitution," or else be devoured. Eat or be eaten...........To Read More...

My Take - This bickering among these leftist loons is to be expected.  But even for a heretic such as Nancy Pelosi this is stooping so low I have to quote what Sir Thomas More said the movie "A Man For All Season" regarding Sir Richard Rich being made Attorney General for Wales as a reward for his perjured testimony that condemned him:

"In good faith I am sorrier for your perjury than my peril"............  "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  But for Wales?"

But Nancy:  For Speaker of the House?

‘Squad’ Members Prove That Only Progressives Qualify As ‘Women of Color’

Elizabeth Heng: “Mine is the face of freedom … my skin is not white. I’m not outrageous, or racist, or a socialist. I’m a Republican.”

By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives--September 15, 2019

In its explosive fury about a pro-Republican PAC televised ad, showing an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez photo on fire, so-called ‘Squad’ members prove that only a far left Progressive can be legitimately classified as a protected and privileged ‘Woman of Color’.

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders-inspired ‘squadettes’ Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley are in a raging tizzy that a picture of their leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) set alight served as the opening for an ad, televised during Thursday’s Democrat presidential debate in Houston...........To Read More....

Understanding Why 'The Squad' Screams 'Racism'

Star Parker  Jul 24, 2019

Unfortunately, the U.S. House of Representatives is starting to look more and more like America's universities.  Freshmen show up not to learn but to teach. They think they already know it all and see it as their personal mission to set straight the faculty, university administrators and the world.

So we see it with "The Squad," the now-famous far-left freshmen four in the House -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley -- who believe they have been elected to a first term in Congress to reinvent what they think is a failed America and set straight the leadership of their party and the nation.

Fortunately, most Americans do not share this highly vocal four's negativism about America. In a new Gallup poll, 70 percent agreed with the statement "If you work hard and play by the rules, you will be able to achieve the American dream in your lifetime." Even a significant majority -- 61 percent -- of households earning less than $40,000 agreed.................To Read More....

Why Emotionalists Like Ilhan Omar Are Always Dictators

Posted on July 16, 2019 by DrHurd Bookmark this article

“Four far-left congresswomen held a press conference on Monday about recent tweets from President Donald Trump that they claimed were racist and, during the press conference, they proceeded to melt down, making multiple false statements and refusing to answer specific questions from reporters............Psychologically, these women are emotionalists. An “emotionalist” is someone for whom feelings are truth, not facts............The unspoken agreement among such people is, “I won’t challenge you with facts if you won’t challenge me with facts”.  It’s highly neurotic. But when mixed with real power, it’s dangerous.

Emotionalists are also dictators. ......They don’t answer to anyone or anything except their feelings. Hitler was an emotionalist......... Stalin was too. ........They are would-be killers. Make no mistake about them. I consider the voters who keep supporting them no less innocent.........To Read More....

THEY are the Racists

Posted on July 17, 2019 by DrHurd

It’s not “racism” to hold people accountable for their words.

If you knew somebody who told you, over and over, “I hate you. I can’t stand the sight of you. I don’t want to be anywhere near you. You are evil, rotten and depraved,” it would not be racist to say, “Well, go then.”

These horrible women elected to Congress by profoundly ignorant people are not the victims of racism. Racism is when you single out someone for their race, and judge them as unfavorable (or favorable) because of their ancestry and genetics — and for no other reason.

That’s what THEY do. They say anyone who’s white cannot understand the plight of those who are not. What does anything cognitive — like understanding — have to do with one’s genetic make-up? To assert that is itself racism. They disparage Jews on a daily basis. They say 9/11 was not really a big deal. It was the biggest attack on American soil in history. It was the biggest attack on freedom in world history. They say all private property and wealth is theft, that it belongs to the government. They claim that to suggest otherwise is racist. What does race or racism have to do with your views on the morality and legality of private property? Why is President Trump put on the defensive for EVERYTHING — while progressive leftists are put on the defensive for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING?

How sustainable is a situation like this? It’s more than a powder keg. It can’t and won’t go on like this. That’s a guarantee.........To Read More....

ADL Chief Attacks President Trump... Again

July 21, 2019 By Tom Mountain

Comes now Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt with his latest diatribe against the President of the United States. Greenblatt is very upset with Donald Trump. So upset, in fact, that he accused the President of -- stop me if you’ve heard this before -- xenophobia, white nationalism, and, of course, racism. Not only that, but now, according to Greenblatt, the President is “cynically using the Jewish people and the State of Israel to double down on his remarks.”

Where to begin?

Mr. Greenblatt is obviously referring to President Trump’s recent public confrontation with congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandra Occasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley, in which the President basically told them that since they hate America so much they ought to leave the country...............What is particularly odd, if not bizarre, is that the head of the ADL is genuinely disturbed by the President’s targeting of these particular four congresswomen, three of whom are anti-Semitic, particularly Omar, who is actually pro-jihadist.......To Read More....

The Mob Squad is pro-Socialism and anti-American!

By Linda Martinelli, Business Leader, Show Host and Columnist July 18, 2019

The ladies of the Squad, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar have become more of a Mob Squad intent on ruining those who do not share their socialist views. They are anti-Trump, anti-Israel, anti-conservative and anti-American.

 

Each coming from different areas of the country, and indeed the world, they have joined forces in a united voice to dis-unite our United States. Their views are left of far left, and they are unabashedly using the power of the media and social media to forward their anger, their lies and their hatred of what we stand for in America.

 

Our country thrives on differences of opinion and it is not something we as a Nation shy away from. I listen to what they say day in and day out. They mis-state facts by twisting and turning them to have a different meaning. They misrepresent the border situations to the point of outright lies that they double down on these lies. They discuss the abuse of children and families in detention centers that is directly refuted by those in the detention centers. They vote to withhold funding for those same centers they complain about.

 

They constantly mention that they are women of color, as though that matters, then throw the race card down against everyone who disagrees with their politics. They bait the President, they bait their detractors, then cry foul when it comes back their way. Their disrespect for the office holders in the highest offices in this land is shameful.........To Read More...

 

• The Socialist ‘Squad’ Does Not Like America. Take It From Them
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• Rep. Omar Deserves Her Day In Court

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell is either an ignoramus or a liar

July 20, 2019 By Thomas Lifson

For someone ostensibly in the “news” business, Andrea Mitchell is remarkably uninformed. Or perhaps, she is peddling a fiction that she thinks will benefit the Left. It’s really hard to say which disqualifier from her job is the real one, but in either case, she should not be spewing propaganda to the viewers of MSNBC. Oh, wait. That’s her job, just like the rest of the staff there. Mitchell claimed about the four members of The Squad:

"None of these members of Congress are socialists, but that is the way the Republican leadership wants to frame this election face-off,” Mitchell told the panel. "There’s not a single member of these congressional representatives who are avowed socialists, so I don’t know where that is coming from other than opposition research.” ...

Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News could not resist informing her otherwise:.......To Read More...

The Squad is laying bare the Democratic Party

July 19, 2019 By J. Marsolo

The Squad has brought to the public debate the drastic change in the modern Democratic Party. We have had a Socialist Party since Norman Thomas, who ran for the presidency six times, but the Democratic and Republican Parties always agreed on the basic premise that our country's economy is based on free enterprise. We have a safety net of welfare programs, but there was never a serious dispute that free enterprise provides the best system for economic mobility and for producing the funds necessary to fund a safety net. Both parties understood that the free enterprise system is the best system to produce enough taxes for the government to spend for the programs favored by each party.

But today's national Democratic Party has embraced the socialist dogma. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the stars of the Democratic Party and have forced the Democratic presidential candidates to agree with their policies.

The Dems now stand for open borders, amnesty for illegal aliens, sanctuary cities and states, and abolition of ICE. This means they reject the idea that the United States is a nation-state entitled to defend its borders. Anyone can enter our country at any time for any reason..........To Read More....

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American-Hating Americans Are the Ultimate Ingrates and Hypocrites

Once again, Trump stands up for Americans who love their country.

July 16, 2019 Bruce Thornton 

With his usual flair for hyperbole and indifference to factual details, Donald Trump last week tweet-blasted the so-called “Squad” of female freshman Congressmen “of color” for slandering America as racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and numerous other empty epithets.

Though Trump was careless for suggesting, “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”––since only one, Ilhan Omar, was born abroad––his sentiment is still valid, and has been shared for decades by millions of Americans angry over their homeland being demonized by immigrants and fellow citizens alike.

This sentiment was memorably captured by country singer Merle Haggard in his hit “Fightin’ Side of Me.” Released in December 1969, the song expressed the anger of the “Silent Majority” that had just put Richard Nixon in the White House. And the lyrics identified who Americans were angry at: the free, comfortable New Leftists, college students, bougie hippies, and liberal elite fellow-travelers who burned the American Flag, slandered our soldiers as baby-killers, and called their country “AmeriKKKa.”

Haggard especially targeted the antiwar activists who insulted our troops even as they were fighting and dying, and who “love our milk and honey” but “preach about some other way of livin’.” Sound familiar? ........To Read More....

My Take - Trump has been criticized for his inaccuracies regarding the national orgin of this group, but in this case, the details are immaterial to the narrative.  I would think leftists would understand that, since that's their modus operandi. He made his point.  Whether they’re foreign born or not Article VI, clause 3 of the Constitution says:

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

Do they really act like their loyalty is to the United States and the Constitution, or do they act like foreign agents working to undermine America? That’s why the details aren’t as important as the narrative. And that narrative resonated with America.