Four Republicans voted to keep far-left, Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar (Minn.) on congressional committees when they helped defeat Representative Nancy Mace’s motion to remove the Somali radical.
Mace (R-S.C.) and other conservatives are fuming that Mike Flood of Nebraska, Jeff Hurd of Colorado, Cory Mills of Florida and Tom McClintock of California opposed Mace’s measure. It cited Omar’s commentary about and her sharing a vicious smear video about murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The vote was 214-213.
Whether the four will be primaried for the vote is unclear.
Mace’s Bill
Mace’s bill to boot Omar off the committees cited two instances in which the Minnesota radical sniped at Kirk and his family.
During an interview with anti-American leftist Mehdi Hasan, a British Pakistani with American citizenship and a big megaphone, Omar did lament the assassination of Kirk, 31, on September 10 at Utah Valley University. But then she dipped into the well of anti-Kirk hate. Anyone who thinks Kirk wanted civil debate is “full of sh*t,” Omar said.
As well, she continued, “there is nothing more f**ked up than to completely pretend that his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so.”
Worse still, Mace’s bill noted, Omar shared a smear-Kirk video.
As The New American reported last week, the video claimed Kirk and his supporters have a “Christo-fascist agenda,” and that Kirk was a “reprehensible human being” who “enacted his political agenda by preying upon weak-minded people” and by “pointing fingers at outgroups, demonizing those groups, and then siccing his massive following on them.”
He was a “stochastic terrorist” and “an adamant transphobe,” the narrator said. He “believed in the subjugation of women and with his last dying words he was spewing racist dog whistles,” the narrator continued:
Charlie Kirk was Doctor Frankenstein, and his monster shot him through the neck.
Mace’s Reaction
After Mace’s bill was defeated yesterday, she fulminated about the Gang of Four and Democrats on her personal X feed.
“210 Democrats and 4 Republicans (Mike Flood, Jeff Hurd, Tom McClintock, and Cory Mills) just sided with Ilhan Omar over Charlie Kirk,” Mace wrote. “They voted to shield a woman who mocked the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk.”
The post reprises the video’s lies, and says Omar repeated the smears by sharing it. Omar is “a woman who called him a ‘stochastic terrorist’ and a ‘reprehensible human being,’ all while his loved ones were still planning his memorial,” Mace wrote.
“Democrats and these 4 “Republicans” chose Ilhan Omar over decency, over justice, and over Charlie Kirk’s family,” Mace concluded:
They showed us exactly who they are. Never forget it.
On her congressional account, Mace continued:
Ilhan Omar mocked the cold-blooded assassination of an innocent American husband and father.
She’s supported ISIS.
She’s supported the Muslim Brotherhood.
She’s incited political violence.
And tonight, Congress protected her.
“If you think holding Ilhan Omar accountable is ‘theater’ you’re telling the country loud and clear: you’re fine with political violence as long as it’s your side dishing it out,” Mace replied to the Democratic Women’s Caucus, which accused Mace of creating “political theater.”
“It’s not ‘cancel culture’ when you face consequences for celebrating an assassination,” she wrote in a separate post:
It’s called basic decency.
Something Ilhan Omar and her defenders clearly don’t understand.
Other Voices
Of Hurd’s vote to protect Omar, Will Chamberlain of the Edmund Burke foundation wondered whether “voters approve of blaming Charlie Kirk for his assassination.”
“Why isn’t the [Republican National Committee] raining Hell on these four traitors,” Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports wrote.
Free Speech
“Ilhan Omar’s comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, as well as her comments about those who supported Charlie, are ghoulish and evil,” Hurd wrote:
I condemn them completely. But I voted against today’s censure because it tried to strip another Member of Congress from committees and to silence her for exercising the First Amendment right to free speech. The right response to reprehensible speech like this isn’t silencing: it’s more speech. That’s what Charlie Kirk believed and practiced, and I agree.
Replied Catturd: “Coward.”
“How dare you invoke Charlie Kirk’s name to justify your cowardice!” Chamberlain replied.
The 73,000-follower Cynthia Holt called the four “scumbags.”
Mills cited the Constitution to defend his vote.
“The 7 Articles and 27 Amendments of our Constitution are not followed only when it serves your purpose,” he wrote:
Unlike with [Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.)], whom is accused of assault and obstruction of LEO, which I supported not to table, this is a 1A issue. We may not like or agree with what someone says, but that does not mean we should deny their protected 1A Right.
That appeared over the words of Kirk:
Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech.
And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment.
