It is quaint now to remember that the Congress once was supposed to be a coequal branch of government and, as such, it was tasked with keeping its own house—and Senate—in order. By and large, it did a pretty good job of it. The process was slow, and it was vulnerable to Good Old Boy back-scratching, but, generally, the system worked the way it was supposed to work.
It dealt with child sexual abuse. It took God's own good time censuring Joe McCarthy, but it finally got around to it. It expelled a whole group of traitors who allied themselves with the Confederacy.
It rid itself of the ABSCAM crooks, and also of George Santos. Gee, what a coincidence that a FNC crew just happened by. Omar came to this country as a refugee from Somalia when she was 12.
Whatever her father may have done—and I'm going to need a truckload of evidence that he did anything at all—I don't know what it has to do with her. Except that, she has been the target of abject racial xenophobia ever since she came to Washington. First, this is another example of the president weaponizing law enforcement to play out the demonology in his increasingly superfluous brainpan.
Second, it also is a shocking violation of separation of powers. And, yes, the cowardly sycophantic behavior of the Republican majorities made Congress vulnerable to institutional sabotage. But many of the Republicans in Congress are just as rabid about rep.
Omar as the president is. Their bigotry cannot replace the constitutional order, even under this president, who wouldn't know the constitutional order if it fell on his head, which, one day, I hope will happen.
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