Rep.Ayanna Pressley (Squadette Socialist) calls for Boebert's removal after "anti-Muslim" comments

Democratic members of Congress want Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to be removed from Congressional committees just like those in the Squad want the defensive protection known as Iron Dome to be removed from Israel in order for Hamas to can get their missiles to do what they are intended to do--kill Israelis.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) announced Wednesday that she is "leading a resolution to remove Rep. Boebert from her committee assignments."

"Her dangerous behavior & hateful, Islamophobic rhetoric has no place in our society & only emboldens further violence," Pressley tweeted. "There must be accountability."

In the resolution, Pressley, a member of the so-called Squad, voted against the U.S. funding of Israel's defensive anti-missile system known as Iron Dome as did all members of the Squad. But she apparently believes that Boebert's irresponsible and stupid joke about Ilhan Omar, an anti-Semitic Muslim, is worse than her anti-Semitic sentiment.

Remember when Omar dismissively said of the September 11, 2001 attack that "someone did something"?

Pressley cited a House rule that says members and employees  "shall behave at all times in a manner that reflects credibility on the House." 

Pressley is asking that Boebert be removed from the budget and natural resources committees she belongs to as a member of the House, but not remove Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in spite of Omar making anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist statements.

The issue began after a video gained widespread attention on Twitter last month in which Boebert tells the crowd about a conversation she had with a staffer while in an elevator in the Capitol. She said she saw a police officer running toward them and then saw Ilhan Omar.

"Well, she doesn't have a backpack. We should be fine," Boebert recalled saying, according to CBS affiliate WCCO. "And I said, 'Oh look, the jihad squad decided to show up for work today.'"

This was not Boebert's finest moment and was a stupid thing to say, although admittedly it is rather amusing since Omar has a history of cozying up to terrorists.

However, Boebert apologized afterward in a tweet: "I apologize to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Rep. Omar. I have reached out to her office to speak with her directly. There are plenty of policy differences to focus on without this unnecessary distraction."

This should have been the end of it but Boebert also called Omar on the phone, but it went poorly. "I believe in engaging with those we disagree with respectfully, but not when that disagreement is rooted in outright bigotry and hate," Omar said in a statement, adding that she "decided to end the unproductive call."

So Omar made a big thing out of it but who is she kidding? She did it  for political gain. 

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To hang up on someone when they are apologizing has as much class as a hungry Brian Stelter alone with a sloppy joe hamburger.

And Ilhan Omar apologized for saying that U.S. support for Israel was all about the Benjamins. But it didn't take more than a few weeks later for her to continue her anti-Semitic rhetoric.

So yeah, this is 'whataboutism' but it's also about hypocrisy and how the left is able to get away with it because the press allows it to happen or even helps it along. Ayanna Pressley and the Squad have no business going after Boebert until the House goes after them too.

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