A day later than expected, the House of Representatives passed an altered version of a resolution condemning the bigoted words of an unnamed Democrat on Thursday. According to news organizations the targeted words came from Rep. Ilhan Omar (Dem-MN) for anti-Semitic slurs she made in recent weeks. We don't know for sure that she was the target, because Nancy Pelosi agreed to make the resolution a general anti-hate resolution that neither quotes nor specifically refers to here comments and does not come within 39-and-a-half feet of mentioning the name of the offender or the offense or the date, time or location.
Reports say that Pelosi was cowed in a private meeting by a group of freshmen Democrats that wielded their power over the Speaker like a leather strap before a wayward stepchild. The freshmen included Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The resolution instead of targeting an actual bigot referred to all sorts of different types of bigots and made sure that everybody will know that Pelosi and party doesn't like them (vague and plural) and will let smart people know that Pelosi and party don't want to concentrate or linger on a specific event perpetrated by a specific Democrat. Better to condemn a cast of thousands that might be a part of any group or party than to focus on the one member of one party who has most recently made bigoted comments on front pages and in TV videotapes. At least when that party starts with a capital D.
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