Remember how so many democrats, journalists and ERA posters were big on "holding members of your own party accountable" and "having higher standards" when Omar was criticizing AIPAC a few weeks ago?
Where y'all at??
Indeed. Apparently those "higher standards" stop at the big man. Fine to have bigger standards of some representative of Congress, but when it comes to the most recent Democratic President, apparently that's too much.
She's not wrong, but this is not helpful either? What was the context of saying this?
How well did having a bunch of young ideologue Representatives in the caucus work out for Boehner and Ryan? Again, even though she's correct, this is the sort of off-message unforced error that Trump makes all the time. When the party finally gets to stop talking about Omar and talk about the bills they want (lots of Dems came out and complained the the Omar thing this week took all the air out of their voting reform bill etc), now she says this? And turns the narrative for the rest of the week/weekend into "Dems turning on Obama, Trump was right!"
For what purpose?
I dunno. How helpful was it to force a resolution passed the House that was a not-so-subtle jab at one of your party's own members at Congress? Yet Pelosi forced that through, for all the good it did of shifting the narrative (not much, based on threads like this and people moving on from Republican hypocrisy at being the only ones to actually vote against the resolution or whatever, because surprise, nobody cares and we just shift to the next thing she says). The only thing actually accomplished by that was completely embarrassing Omar in front of the entire Congress, and giving more weight to Republican attacks against her since they apparently necessitated such a measure, and who, despite the measure passing, Trump and Republicans are continuing to attack her and things have moved on from any discussion of Republican hypocrisy or whatever seemingly immediately.
So yeah, not exactly in a mood to talk about things that "aren't helpful" to be quite frank, considering most Democrats aren't interested in being very helpful toward Representative Omar and speaking up for her, so what's even the point of her being quote unquote "helpful" to other Democrats anyway instead of just speaking truth-to-power if that's how she's going to get treated regardless? She's getting thrown to the wolves regardless, so might as well be true to herself and not hold anything back and tell it like it is if that's how it's going to be. Point being, definitely don't want to hear ANYTHING about things that "aren't helpful" though, considering how she herself is being treated even by her colleagues in the House.
