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It continues to astound me that there are some points on the market that ought to transcend numerous factions in the Republican Party, that ought to be a rallying cry for every right-leaning individual contending to be motivated by ethical decency, and the celebration still cannot come together to take a stand.
Perhaps it is naiveté on my half.
Democrats, the resistance celebration that helped usher in an period of incivility by portraying every American with even the slightest variations in thought and opinion by labeling them alternately as “fascists” or “Nazis,” — the sort of rhetoric that one can draw a straight line from to the bullet casings discovered at the crime scene in Utah last week — will march in lockstep on any and every vote.
And yet Republicans, finally handed an alternative to reprimand an official for vile, hateful, incendiary rhetoric, in an period of “assassination tradition” on the left, just cannot muster up the intestinal fortitude to ship a message.
A decision to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and take away her from key House committees failed Wednesday in a slim 214-213 vote. Four Republicans joined Democrats to desk the measure over Omar’s feedback following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The attempt to censure Ilhan Omar has failed.
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 17, 2025
Watch: Ilhan Omar Mocks Charlie Kirk, Says Supporters Are ‘Full of ****’
There may be very little to debate when it comes to Omar’s feedback. They have been contemptible, disgusting, as is a huge proportion of the phrases that have come out of her mouth since she set foot in Congress in 2019.
She is a hateful, loathsome particular person. But her loathsomeness crossed a line when, as my RedState colleague Bonchie reported last week, barely 24 hours after Kirk had been murdered by a suspect allegedly pushed by his own hatred and far-left ideology (two interchangeable phrases), Omar “added another mark to her record as one of the most hateful, depraved members of Congress.”
Omar took the event to be a part of the equally reprehensible pro-Hamas journalist Mehdi Hasan to bash Kirk, borderline insinuating that the conservative icon had gotten what he deserved for his “words and actions.”
“There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him [Kirk] just wanting to have a civil debate,” she said. “These people are full of s***, and it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar is glad Charlie Kirk was kiIIed: “He downplayed George Floyd. He opposed Juneteenth.”
Look at their grins pic.twitter.com/Ra5Eg4MZ3k
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 11, 2025
You perceive what she is saying right here. He wasn’t merely the efficient debater; he was one thing worse. It wasn’t “civil,” in her view. And for that, go forward and watch me trash his legacy before he is even been buried.
Omar and Hasan snigger and mock him throughout the interview.
But there was more. The Minnesota congresswoman also reposted a video to social media calling Charlie Kirk a “stochastic terrorist” and a “reprehensible human being.”
Somebody ought to introduce her to a mirror. Regardless, these are clear-cut, censure-worthy feedback, particularly when Kirk was killed after being portrayed repeatedly by left-wing media as a stochastic terrorist. Especially when it’s clear that the left in this nation has crossed a line that, left unpunished, will end result in more violent efforts to silence political opponents.
Republican Reps. Mike Flood (NE), Jeff Hurd (CO), Cory Mills (FL), and Tom McClintock (CA) apparently did not see issues that method.
BREAKING – Four Republicans joined Democrats to shield Ilhan Omar, refusing to take away her from committee assignments after she defamed Charlie Kirk following his assassination, with Mike Flood, Jeff Hurd, Cory Mills, and Tom McClintock siding with Democrats. pic.twitter.com/T6DToCefJm
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) September 17, 2025
McClintock ought to come as no shock, having been unable to find his backbone for a number of years now. He voted against measures to impeach former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, as properly as a measure to censure then-Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Captain Francesco Schettino would suppose him a coward.
McClintock and the feckless 4 have cited First Amendment rights in their protection of Omar. But this is not about free speech. Omar has every proper to specific her emotions on the matter. She clearly is aware of that. It’s about decorum from an elected official. Ask Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) if you could be censured for speech. Gosar was formally censured by the House of Representatives and stripped of his committee assignments in 2021 for posting an anime cartoon video on the web.
An anime cartoon.
Democrats, you see, know how to play the recreation, never turning on their own, always utilizing every measure in the arsenal to stop their opposition. Republicans, however, fall for it time and time again.
Mills’ vote to shield Omar from censure was the deciding one, according to Axios, and, despite his Bronze Star recipient historical past, might have been the most gutless, having, according to the outlet, “voted with Democrats at the very last moment before the vote closed.”
Vote and run. Tail tucked firmly between his legs.
We didn’t have the votes or guts to censure Omar. pic.twitter.com/OpkOiqO7Fg
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) September 17, 2025
It ought to be famous that Mills had a personal stake in this vote. Democrats had vowed to drive a vote to censure him if the GOP moved ahead on Omar.
“The Mills resolution centers on reports and allegations of domestic violence and inappropriate misconduct, stolen valor, making false financial disclosures, and committing campaign finance violations,” Axios stories, all of which he vehemently denies.
Defending Charlie Kirk’s legacy, holding officers accountable for rhetoric that has led to violence, and restoring decorum to Congress all went down the drain because of a risk?
“We may not like or agree with what someone says, but that does not mean we should deny their protected 1A Right,” Mills said in a assertion on X. He invoked feedback from Kirk himself in the course of.
The 7 Articles and 27 Amendments of our Constitution are usually not only to be adopted when it serves your objective. Unlike with Rep McIver, whom is accused of assault and obstruction of LEO, which I supported not to desk, this is a 1A issue. We might not like or agree with what somebody… pic.twitter.com/JbDfJrEncK
— Cory Mills (@CoryMillsFL) September 17, 2025
Kirk’s free speech rights have been taken from him. Omar’s weren’t. They wouldn’t have been, even with a vote to maintain her accountable. She still has the proper to painting him as a “stochastic terrorist” despite how repulsive that could also be.
She’d still have that proper even if Mills, McClintock, Hurd, or Flood voted to censure. Which, by the way, is itself an expression of speech. The U.S. Senate describes it as little more than “a formal statement of disapproval.”
You could not stand up and make that assertion?
Betraying rules, disregarding morals, caving to partisan pressures, all while hiding behind weak arguments to save Omar. Absolute cowards.
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