Why Some House Dems Regret Purging GOP Members From Committees

When it happens, Rebecca will have the official vote count, but it looks like the House Republican leadership has the votes to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her committee assignments. It’s primarily grounded in the Minnesota Democrat’s past anti-Semitic escapades, but we don’t need a reason. Democrats paved the way for these shenanigans when they got huffy about what Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) had said in the past about Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, respectively. It was weak sauce: Greene brutally torched the then-House speaker, and Gosar posted a photoshopped Attack on Titan anime video where Ocasio-Cortez was killed. That wasn’t the reason why they got removed from their committees—it’s because Democrats don’t like them. The feeling is mutual.