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mysteryowl

(7,390 posts) Thu Mar 7, 2019, 06:54 PM Mar 2019

House passes anti-hate resolution

Source: Guardian

The House has passed the resolution condemning antisemitism, Islamophobia and other hate speech.

All Democrats, including Rep Ilhan Omar, whose comments about Israel inspired the resolution, voted yes, while 23 Republicans opposed the measure, including GOP conference chair Liz Cheney and several members of the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus.

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JUST IN: In 407-23 vote, House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hatred.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/07/trump-manafort-trial-sentence-news-latest-live-updates-us-politics-today

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House passes anti-hate resolution (Original Post) mysteryowl Mar 2019 OP

Those 26 Republicans may regret their vote. Great fodder for election campaigns. Nitram Mar 2019 #1

I worked for Liuba Grechen Shirley this year trying to unseat Peter King (NY)... lapucelle Mar 2019 #4

I mean good on most of the Republicans for realizing it was in their interests to support this... DRoseDARs Mar 2019 #2

Meh. Igel Mar 2019 #5

That's quite the hot take you have there. "All lives matter" resolution? DRoseDARs Mar 2019 #6

Steve King votes "Present" - what a fucking coward rurallib Mar 2019 #3

There's a word for the kind of bigoted a-hole who would oppose such a resolution. jcmaine72 Mar 2019 #7

So after a week of attacks against Omar for antisemitism LiberalLovinLug Mar 2019 #8

Nitram

(22,822 posts)

1. Those 26 Republicans may regret their vote. Great fodder for election campaigns.

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 06:57 PM

Mar 2019

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)

4. I worked for Liuba Grechen Shirley this year trying to unseat Peter King (NY)...

Reply to Nitram (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 07:47 PM

Mar 2019

...this is not going to help him in the his Massapequa, LI stronghold, affectionately nicknamed "Matzapizza" by its many Italian and Jewish residents.

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)

2. I mean good on most of the Republicans for realizing it was in their interests to support this...

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 07:08 PM

Mar 2019

Most likely because it would look bad if they didn't, and not because they agreed, but still it passed resoundingly. Now off it goes to die in the Senate...

Igel

(35,320 posts)

5. Meh.

Reply to DRoseDARs (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 08:20 PM

Mar 2019

It's an "all lives matter" resolution.

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)

6. That's quite the hot take you have there. "All lives matter" resolution?

Reply to Igel (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 08:58 PM

Mar 2019

You sure that's how you want to characterize the efforts of Nancy Pelosi and her entire caucus?

rurallib

(62,423 posts)

3. Steve King votes "Present" - what a fucking coward

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 07:44 PM

Mar 2019

can't even stand up for what he believes

jcmaine72

(1,773 posts)

7. There's a word for the kind of bigoted a-hole who would oppose such a resolution.

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 08:59 PM

Mar 2019

And it starts with the letter "R".

Is it:

A.) Racist
B.) Reprehensible
C.) Rat
D.) Repugnant
E. ) All of the above

I select E, "all of the above". Of course, when you combine the definitions of all those words, you end up with another word that begins with the letter "R" that is actually the correct answer...."Republican".

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)

8. So after a week of attacks against Omar for antisemitism

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 09:36 PM

Mar 2019

She votes for the resolution condemning antisemitism, and 23 Republicans vote against it.

Nice.

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