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Dems Set To Censure Gosar For Cartoon After Not Punishing Worse From Their Own Party

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OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.


The Democrats appear to have two sets of rules and they only apparently want to enforce them against Republicans.

Democrat Reps have said atrocious things about the state of Israel, one of the United States’ top allies, and some have even hinted at violence, and have not been punished, but it appears the Democrats appear to punish Republican Rep. Paul Gosar for a cartoon, The Daily Mail reported.

The House will today vote on censuring Republican Paul Gosar and stripping him of committee assignments after he posted a photo-shopped anime video of him killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Democrats are demanding that the Arizona representative be removed from the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the Committee on Natural Resources.

He also faces censure for the cartoon video posted to his Twitter and Instagram accounts last week showing him stabbing AOC in the back before lunging at Joe Biden with the blade.

Democrats said Gosar’s actions amounted to threatening another member’s life, calling the video ‘so beyond the pale.’

Republicans warned them to be careful about dictating the punishment of those who serve in the minority because of the precedent it will set.

If we are being real, it was an anime video that barely showed anything, much less any blood. It was symbolic of Rep. Gosar fighting for the nation against liberal ideas that could wreak havoc.

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But Democrats do not care about that. What they care about is flexing their power in spite of the fact that, time and again, they have not held their own party to the same standard.

Here are some examples.

“Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism. Palestinians deserve protection. Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians,” Rep. Omar said in may, describing our nation’s most trusted ally as a terrorist regime.

The report Omar cited omitted Israel’s claim that the airstrikes were targeting militants who fired missiles into Israel and that 11 Hamas terrorists were reportedly killed.

Then she compared Israel with the Taliban and Hamas.

“We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” Rep. Omar said in a tweet. “I asked [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] where people are supposed to go for justice.”

Punishment? None.

A day after an Israeli airstrike destroyed a high rise building in the Gaza Strip that was home to The Associated Press offices, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Israel an “apartheid state.”

“This is happening with the support of the United States. I don’t care how any spokesperson tries to spin this. The US vetoed the UN call for ceasefire. If the Biden admin can’t stand up to an ally, who can it stand up to? How can they credibly claim to stand for human rights?” she said.

“Apartheid states aren’t democracies,” she said.

Punishment? None.

And then there were the comments of Rep. Maxine Waters made during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd.

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“I’m going to fight with all of the people who stand for justice,” Waters she said to reporters just before the 11 p.m. curfew in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota where Daunte Wright was killed in a confrontation with police.  “We’ve got to get justice in this country and we cannot allow these killings to continue.”

A reporter then asked Rep. Waters about what she would think if former Officer Derek Chauvin was found not guilty in his trial for the death of George Floyd.

“We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” she said.

More confrontational? She made the statement as she stood in a city where protesters have pelted police with rocks and bottles and have set fire to businesses.

Punishment? None.

Spare me the faux outrage and the pearl clutching. This is not about moral standards or inciting violence. It is a power play designed to attack a Republican because they can.

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