Perfect response…
Too bad the leadership couldn’t have shut up in the mean time.
Omar can at least claim inexperience. Leadership jumped from zero to stupid in record time. I wonder if any particular lobbying group had anything to do with it?
Good response, and she’s right about lobbyists.
A smart response to a stupid comment.
Do apologizes still work in today’s political culture?
Fair enough and that should be an end of it. No gratuitous offense intended but she stands by the point she was making.
What exactly did the leadership do that was so stupid?
.I APOLIGIZE …my post confused AIPAC with cheneys PNAC…>
No article about AIPAC should forget that these are the same idiots who drew up the Cheney Iraq invasion plan…
SORRY THATS wrong, ,oops…AIPAC lobbied for the war as did most dems ,not a fan of the AIPAC but the plan wasn’t on them…
Cheney,(1) Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith,(2) and others that Cheney brought into the Bush administration signed the Founding Principles of PNAC(3) in 1997. A neoconservative think tank and lobbying group, it wrote to Clinton in 1998 to urge him toward eliminate Saddam. By early 2001, before 9/11, it published a plan for the invasion that closely resembled Rumsfeld’s actual strategy. The DC office of the Jerusalem-based IASPS(4) had urged Israel to take Iraq as early as 1996 (in their “Clean Break” report(5)), and it’s key author David Wurmser publish a book on why the Iraq War would be good for the US and Israel in 1999 before becoming Dick Cheney’s Middle East adviser.
I think apologies and non-apologies work nowadays. Attention spans are so damn short and new breaking news so damn fast that barely any scandal matters. e.g. 45, Steve King, Virginia in about 2 more days, etc etc
e: e.g.2 does no one remember the conspiracies surrounding George Soros not too long ago?
I really wish she hadn’t apologized. Now it’s confirmed that any accusation of anti-semitism, no matter how stupid, will spark the Democratic sniveling and cowardice. What a shame, it will only embolden AIPAC and the Israel-First! faction of the US government.
I also think this is about the entrenched D leadership smacking down the newcomers and putting them in their place.
Elegant. Northam should get on the horn and arrange for private lessons.
I believe there are good lobbyists and bad lobbyists. Good lobbyists are the ones that agree with me. Bad lobbyists are the ones I don’t agree with.
ETA. There may be a lobbyist I agree with, but…
Also ETA. I don’t consider the Sierra Club lobbiests.
Her apology is well-written doesn’t read insincere to me, but I’ve been on the side of her being careless rather than heinous. And just in case anyone’s interested, Juan Cole has weighed in. At length. But here is his conclusion:
All that said, AIPAC and the Israel lobbies are enormously influential in American politics and putting discussion of them off limits, as the lobbies would like to do, is a diminution of our democratic discourse and a sort of totalitarianism.
To that extent, whatever one thinks of one tweet by a first-term congresswoman, she is doing us a favor to provoke the forbidden discussion.
Thought she might have had Jewish constituents. Apology accepted. Let’s move on and not lose sight of our focus. The complete and utter destruction of Fat Donnie and his crime familia.
Northam also got the same treatment. I didn’t see anyone complaining that it was about D leadership smacking down newcomers then.
Rep. Omar posted what was a careless phrased tweet as best. She did the absolutely right thing by apologizing for her tweet, and clarifying her position. And the leadership did the right thing by calling her out.
Other than the original error by Rep. Omar this was handled well by all on the Dem side, including her. I don’t see why we should be complaining at all.
I forgive Omar unequivocally. Those who defended her words, especially those of you on here, can go suck eggs,
Her apology may very well have been due to pressure from leadership. Best to deal with things like this quickly.
This appears to be a responsive, straightforward effort at civility.
(Does anyone still remember that aspect of American politics?)
I can’t find anything to criticize in this public act of contrition.
But I’m sure plenty of people will…
(The entire subject has just been too politically weaponized in our contemporary politics.)
That theory seems kind of thin in the context of leadership literally putting them in their places - on high profile committees.
Lie. Challenge.
Good statement. Now let’s move on back to how we make Trump crimes the dominant and only story in the news.