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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Feb 3, 2023, 11:25 PM Feb 2023

2 House Republicans caught saying Ilhan Omar removal was the 'stupidest vote in world' before beggin

begging reporters to not tell GOP leadership what they said

Two disillusioned House Republicans unloaded on their vengeful leadership for inadvertently making a hero out of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar by publicly stripping her of a high-profile committee assignment in what one deemed the "stupidest vote in the world."

The not-so-private condemnation of Speaker Kevin McCarthy's campaign to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs panel happened after Republicans clinched the retaliatory strike on a party-line vote of 218-211.

As they rode the elevator away from the House floor, congressional newspaper Roll Call reported that Foreign Affairs Committee GOP member Ken Buck and Republican Rep. Mike Simpson reflected on what had just transpired and decided it was a boneheaded move.

After Buck decreed it the "stupidest" political move, Simpson said the expulsion would probably make the Minnesota Democrat into a "martyr."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-house-republicans-caught-saying-214552961.html
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2 House Republicans caught saying Ilhan Omar removal was the 'stupidest vote in world' before beggin (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2023 OP
I'm Sure They've Issued A Full Denial By Now SoCalDavidS Feb 2023 #1

SoCalDavidS

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1. I'm Sure They've Issued A Full Denial By Now
Sat Feb 4, 2023, 01:29 AM
Feb 2023

And of course, just because it was the "Stupidest" political move, they joined all their Cult Members in voting her out.

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