Democrats livid as Ilhan is ousted from Ilhan Omar from powerful House committee

Following all the drama and apprehensions over the past week Republicans finally ousted Democrat Rep Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The road to victory wasn't smooth for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who led the charge.

Republican Reps. Ken Buck (Colo.), Victoria Spartz (Ind.), David Joyce (Ohio), and Nancy Mace (South Carolina) sanctimoniously castigated McCarthy for using a 'tit-for-tat' ploy.

Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky), the lone Republican who voted against the funding for the Israeli Iron Dome, claimed to be unsure about Omar's ouster.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) joined the madness claiming to be ‘undecided’ on the ousting of Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL.) was going to be on leave for "several weeks" due to injuries from falling off a ladder.  

Since McCarthy abandoned proxy voting on becoming House Speaker, Steube's vote was an impossibility.

The Democrats pledged to vote unanimously to retain all their party members of their committee assignments.  

McCarthy could only afford four GOP defections in order to oust Omar, yet there were seven individuals, including the Congressman on leave, who were impediments to Omar’s removal.

So what happened yesterday on voting day?

As expected all 211 Democrats including Jewish House members who claimed that Omar had taken appropriate steps to educate herself about antisemitism, voted to retain Omar on her committee.

How did the GOP do?

218 Republicans voted to back the resolution condemning Omar for past antisemitic comments and removing her from the committee.

GOP Rep. Joyce, who was among those who expressed reservations about ousting Omar, voted present.

So how did McCarthy accomplish this feat?

On Tuesday, Rep. Spartz flipped her vote to yes after a meeting with McCarthy. They agreed to add a clause to the Omar resolution that gives lawmakers the facility to appeal their removal from committees.  

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky, who was on the fence, was also convinced to back the resolution.

On Wednesday, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., agreed to vote yes after meeting with McCarthy about a proposed rule change that would make it harder to kick lawmakers off committees.

On Thursday, moments before the vote, Rep. Mace met with McCarthy and revealed she got a commitment from McCarthy to develop a better process to remove members from committees, consequently she agreed to vote yes. 

After the successful vote, McCarthy denied that the House GOP was motivated by revenge and insisted it was based on national security concerns. He added that Republicans will allow Omar to serve on other committees.  

https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1621219681578405888

How did it begin?

In February 2021, House Democrats voted to boot  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga), from two committees for tweeting against the Democrats.

A few months later, Democrats moved to censure and oust Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) from his two committees. What was his folly? Once again he tweeting against the Democrat.

Also in 2021, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unilaterally blocked two of McCarthy’s picks, Reps Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Jim Banks (R-Ind) from the Jan. 6 Select committee investigating causing the Republicans then boycotted the special panel.

Even if this was an act of revenge, there was nothing wrong with it. In politics and in life you must give it as good as you get to send a message to your tormentor.

But beyond that, the GOP had strong ground to remove Omar.

Omar is a rabid anti-Semite who supports the notorious anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement and even introduced a BDS bill in Congress.

In 2019, Omar tweeted that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other Jewish donors were paying politicians to back Israel, claiming: “It’s all about the Benjamins, baby.”

Omar also came under fire when she equated the “United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.”

Omar also trivialized the 9-11 terror attacks by claiming that "some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties."

Omar represents a Minnesota district with a Muslim majority. She arrived in the United States in the 1990s as a Somali refugee. In 2018, she became one of the first Muslim women elected to the US Congress. The superficial 'firsts' are what the Democrats live for.

How did the Democrats react to Omar’s ouster?

As expected they played the religion, race, gender, immigrant, and victim card.

Omar said she was removed because she is a Muslim woman who immigrated to the US as a refugee.

"Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy?" she said shortly before the vote.

Omar even claims another death threat had been sent to her office.

https://twitter.com/Ilhan/status/1621194119879053317

The other Islamist in the house Rep. Rashida Tlaib bizarrely equated Omar’s removal to her being censored. Despite her time being up she continued to holler and even appeared to be on the verge of crying.

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1621191245606289408

But the scene stealer of the day AOC.

Despite the fact that it was Omar’s moment to claim victimhood and claim the spotlight, she was outshined by AOC.

AOC is known to gravitates towards any opportunity for publicity like a rabbit to a carrot.

In just one minute AOC breathlessly managed to cite all the kinds of victimhood that exist in the Democrat universe. She see unusually animated, almost hopping up and down as she spoke. It appeared she had consumed copious coffee or perhaps another kind of excitement-inducing substance. Obviously she was reading from prepared notes in a booklet. When she was done, she slammed the booklet on the table like a petulant child and departed.

https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1621199776963334145

This has been a strong start for Speaker McCarthy.

He began by blocking two fraudster Democrats from the Intelligence Committee: former Chairman Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell and now Omar was ousted from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Some credit goes to Donald Trump for backing McCarthy and setting the tone for the fearless new Republican party in 2017. McCarthy seems to be carrying that spirit forward.

In the coming weeks expect the reactions to Omar’s ouster to get very caustic.

This may not even be restricted to media rants. Republicans may be accosted on the streets or perhaps while they are dining in D.C. There may be physical attacks too, hence Republicans must be careful with their and their family's security.

Perhaps politized government agencies may begin targeting some of the Republicans.

Hopefully, they will stand with McCarthy and remain steadfast.

It would be most unfortunate of any among the Republicans to go on Sunday morning TV and express regret for the actions.

Hopefully, this is the beginning of many more wins for House Republicans.

Optimism has no perils.

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