Don’t fool yourself….
When Pelosi kicked Republican Rep. Majorie Greene off he committee she laid the seeds for the Omar and Schiff removals….
The only thing this does is warn House mebers to becarful what they say in public…..
(Omar was nearly voicing concern about a double standard in policy)
And?
Republican House mebers may NOT have been happyto have to go along with McCarthy….
But?
They DID…..
The removal of Omar from the committee may bring to an end, for now, a period of time when a sitting committee member was willing to use that high-profile platform to offer frank criticism of the double-standards and at times harms committed by U.S. foreign policy
“The 50 other members of the Foreign Affairs Committee piously condemn the misdeeds of America’s foes. She asks uncomfortable questions about America’s own,” wrote Peter Beinart, a journalism and political science professor at the City University of New York in a Monday op-ed for the New York Times.
“In a hearing in May 2021, about Chinese atrocities against Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang, only Ms. Omar noted that the United States had itself imprisoned 22 Uyghurs at Guantánamo Bay and that China’s president had reportedly cited America’s ‘war on terror’ as a justification for his own crackdown,” Beinart added.
Following the vote, House Foreign Affairs member Ken Buck, R-Colo., was overheard in an elevator calling it the “stupidest vote in the world.” Fellow Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, agreed and added that all it does is make Omar a “martyr.” They both also agreed that it was simply a retaliatory vote in response to Democrats removing certain Republicans from committees in the 117th Congress.
Buck and Simpson urged fellow passengers in the elevator to not let leadership know their thoughts….