Discussion: Pelosi: Omar Still Doesn't Understand 'The Full Weight' Of Her Comments

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God forbid anyone say anything critical of Israel…

Stay in your lane, Nancy.

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Pelosi’s remarks come as Omar has continued to refuse [insert verb here] for comments last week

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So…every interest group that is offended is now going to ‘push’ for a resolution not to offend them? ARE YOU KIDDING??? There isn’t a GROUP in the Congress that isn’t ‘offended’ by something.

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Great idea to give the political yakkers and the GOP another day’s headline to pillory Omar with.

(I like Nancy and hope Moulton gets primaried, but this is beyond ridiculous.)

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“Twenty”
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Deal…Or no Deal… It’s a question as to whether the Dems are focused on taking out Trump.

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“It feels like we’re only able to call the use of anti-Semitic language by any colleague of ours if we’re addressing all forms of hatred and it feels like we can’t say it’s anti-Semitism unless everyone agrees that it’s anti-Semitism,” Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), who is Jewish, lamented on the House floor Thursday morning.

I wonder how Deutch would respond if the resolution specifically declared that criticism of Israel’s Palestinian policy isn’t de facto antisemitism.

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Israel meddles in/manipulates our elections FAR, FAR more than Russia ever did/does. The fact is, the US decided long ago to blindly support Israel (regardless of the atrocities Israel commits) because AIPAC is nearly omnipotent in our nation’s affairs. Netanyahu is now indicted on criminal charges and blames liberals and the media for his victimization…sound familiar?

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Sadly…this is starting to sounds like the Jewish version of Black Lives Matter. I truly wish we progressives and liberals would stop eating our own.

I don’t see why Jewish people should feel that a comprehensive denouncement of prejudice makes their issues less special…just as, on a certain level…saying All Lives Matter was not meant to say Black Lives don’t matter.

When you weigh what corruption we are trying to overcome in the government and oust from the White House, this in-fighting just plays into GOP hands.

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We have this POS leading the country over a cliff, and we’re quibbling over resolutions about being offended. I’m offended by this orange asshat every waking hour and many sleepless nights.

Get it together, folks, and focus on the actual problem.

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We see so little diplomacy and careful choice of words we don’t recognize them when they do appear. The Speaker’s lane, BTW, runs down two aisles.

“I see everything as an opportunity,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday. “This is an opportunity once again to declare as strongly as possible opposition to anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim statements, anti-white supremacist attitudes.”

She took a shot at President Trump and his equivocal statements after the deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017: “The president may think there are good people on both sides, we don’t share that view.”

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Preach!

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I don’t understand the full weight of having Eliot Engel, pro-Israel anti-Muslim war hawk as Foreign Affairs Committee chair. Yeah, the same guy who voted for the Iraq war resolution.

Anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller was a speaker (see the video above) at a pro-Israel rally in New York City Sunday that also featured Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat. Engel’s presence at a rally that invited Geller, a blogger and activist whose bread and butter is casting aspersions on Muslims, raised eyebrows on Twitter and elsewhere.

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I hope the language which follows on this issue is United Nations-level inclusive. If anyone can pull this off it’s Nancy

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Yikes.

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Whadayaknow? It worked.

Pelosi’s remarks come as Omar has continued to refuse to apologize for comment last week

All in a day’s work…

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“I don’t think that the congresswoman is perhaps appreciative of the full weight of how it was heard by other people, although I don’t believe it was intended in any anti-Semitic way,”


Nancy, I don’t think that you are perhaps appreciative of the distinction between anti-semitism and anti-zionism.

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I think Nancy is doing an incredible dance on the high wire. You try it.

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Pelosi: Omar Still Doesn’t Understand ‘The Full Weight’ Of Her Comments

I am good with that, forget the whole thing and move on, there is president that needs impeachin’

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More like the Jewish version of Blue Lives matter.

A Black Lives Matter analogy would work if it were Palestinians who were protesting

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