Rashida Tlaib’s argument for impeachment boils down to ‘orange man bad!’ – Washington Examiner

America’s newest and most anti-Semitic congresswoman, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted that she was just “#unapologeticallyMe” when she had a little public meltdown in calling to impeach President Trump Thursday. Yet when pressed by journalists on the Hill to comment on her late-night comments, she ran away from the reporters, relying on a staffer to shield her from the press and refusing to answer them.

I guess she’s not quite so unapologetic.

The hangover of Tlaib’s disgraceful first day ought to be denounced not just by the obvious suspects, but by Democrats themselves. But then again, you break it, you buy it. And boy, did Democrats just buy a whole lot of baggage.

Tlaib is primarily heralded as a #Resistance hero because she’s one of the two first Muslim women elected to Congress, which is a cool thing. She’s also the first member of Congress to call for a one-state solution and the eradication of Israel, effectively calling for the erasure of large swaths of Jewish history, tradition, and identity.

Tlaib kicked off her first day on the job hanging out with Linda Sarsour and Amer Zahr. Sarsour, herself one of the anti-Semitic leaders of the Women’s March, is buddies with Louis Farrakhan, who has equated Jews to termites, and Rasmea Odeh, a terrorist and convicted Jew-killer with whom Sarsour once claimed she was “honored and privileged” to share a stage. Zahr is a Hezbollah sympathizer who’s also friendly with Odeh.

A map in Tlaib’s congressional office also featured a Post-It note pointing towards Cairo (intended to point to Israel) with the marker “Palestine,” just in case you didn’t get the message.

Tlaib was sworn into Congress with Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an — which is awesome, until you recall that of all the Founding Fathers, Jefferson may have been the greatest proponent of religious plurality and of the rights of Jews in particular.

Tlaib culminated her day with her impeachment outburst, bravely and boldly screaming in a room full of MoveOn activists. The tirade itself was rather, for lack of a better term, Trumpy.

“People love you and you win,” Tlaib said. “And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Momma, look you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t, because we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker.'”

Emotional compulsion for winning, almost as though to compensate for personal insecurity? Check.

Relaying an anecdote that definitely didn’t happen to a make a point? Check.

Overpromising on a political move that would backfire wildly? Check.

But who cares if Tlaib evokes Trump? Orange man bad!