"We got a little hiccup" with Latino voters ahead of the midterm elections, Mike Johnson actually says www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
One man's "immigration enforcement was viewed to be overzealous" is another man's...
"We got a little hiccup" with Latino voters ahead of the midterm elections, Mike Johnson actually says www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Johnson says "we got a little hiccup" with Latino/Hispanic voters ahead of the midterm elections.
"Because some of the immigration enforcement was viewed to be overzealous."
Q: Trump said if Congress can't send SAVE America Act to his desk, he won't sign any more bills into law this year. Is this the end of legislating in this cycle?
Johnson: "No it's not. I'll talk with him about that."
Q: Do you support nation building in Iran?
Johnson: "I don't. I don't think it's our role."
Q: If this drags out for months, is there a role for Congress to play and step in with war powers resolution?
Johnson: "We'll have to see. We have asserted ourselves."
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Q: Your sense the Iran War will be a short-term campaign, or more prolonged?
Mike Johnson, at GOP retreat in Doral, FL: Info i'm getting is that "this was a limited operation.... I don't call it a war."
got it-- thank ya!
I vaguely remember her announcing this but it feels like SO long ago now.
Also Aubrey is warming up to play, prego??
Any idea what's up with Krueger? We've been over here wondering where she's been, if she's playing ever again....
NYT when a Muslim congresswoman says “motherfucker”: This is a problem for Democrats
NYT when a Christian Republican congressman says “Muslims don't belong in American society”: 0 results
Speaker Mike Johnson declines to condemn Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) for saying Muslims "don't belong" in the U.S. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) snaps at former top DHS official for not rejecting Kristi Noem's false claims that Renee Good and Alex Pretti were “domestic terrorists." www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
"By taking no position and leaving on the table the notion that they are domestic terrorists, you are taking a position," Van Hollen snaps at Wolf.
Van Hollen: Renee Good's and Alex Pretti's "parents and their loved ones deserve an apology from the U.S. government and I find it outrageous you're taking the position you are today."
Wolf: "I'm not taking a position"
Van Hollen: "YES YOU ARE."
Sen. Chris Van Hollen: You agree with Kristi Noem that Renee Good is a "domestic terrorist?"
Former acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, testifying in Senate hearing: "Let the investigation play out...."
Van Hollen: "The country has seen the videos OK? I find it outrageous" you wouldn't just say no.
All the Republicans we reached out to for comment:
Andy Ogles
House Speaker Mike Johnson
Majority Leader Steve Scalise
Majority Whip Tom Emmer
GOP Conference Chair Lisa McClain
GOP Policy Committee Chair Kevin Hern
Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Sen. Bill Hagerty
Tennessee Republican Party
24 hours later -- not a peep out of any House Republican leaders or any Republicans in Congress or the Tennessee GOP at all about this.
I go no responses from anyone I reached out to.
Guess they're all fine with comments like this!
11 hours later:
No public statements from any House Republican leaders on Ogles' post.
No denunciation from any House Republicans.
No responses to any of my requests for comment from House Republican leaders, U.S. senators from Tennessee, the Tennessee Republican Party or Ogles' office.
The Gámez-Cuéllar family has been released from Dilley! We just picked them up.
Offices that have not responded to requests for comment about Andy Ogles' post:
Andy Ogles
Speaker Mike Johnson
Majority Leader Steve Scalise
Majority Whip Tom Emmer
GOP Conference Chair Lisa McClain
GOP Policy Committee Chair Kevin Hern
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
“Yet anti-Muslim extremists in Congress like Randy Fine and Andy Ogles have faced no consequences for their dangerous rhetoric," says CAIR's spokesman. “The double standards and hypocrisy must end.”
CAIR now lists Ogles as an “anti-Muslim extremist" on its website. www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...
“If any member of Congress had declared that ‘Jews do not belong in America,’ that politician would rightfully face condemnation, censure and even possibly expulsion,” says a spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy org.
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Ogles' post has been up for 3.5 hours.
Not a peep out of any other House Republicans, never mind leadership.
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Of all the racist things they've said, this is up there.
The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion *and* bans religious tests for office.
Jefferson said “the powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others, whether Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu or Infidel.” (1/3)
I have hit up the offices of every House GOP leader on this. Let's see if any have anything to say about Ogles' comments.
GOP leaders are:
Mike Johnson
Steve Scalise
Tom Emmer
Lisa McClain
Kevin Hern
If Ogles' name sounds familiar, it may be because he was in hot water with congressional investigators for having holes in his personal story.
"In particular, the stories Ogles told during his winning 2022 campaign about his personal and campaign finances." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
good Q
