In a highly politicized vote, the Republican-led chamber criticized Ms. Omar’s statements about Israel, exacting retribution for the removal of G.O.P. members when Democrats held the majority.
A bitterly divided House on Thursday ousted Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the Foreign Affairs Committee over past comments about Israel that were widely condemned as antisemitic, as Republicans moved to cater to the demands of right-wing members and mete out punishment to a Democrat their party has demonized for years.
… Mr. McCarthy’s decision to force the removal of Ms. Omar, a step that some of his rank-and-file resisted, in the earliest days of his new majority demonstrated his determination to ingratiate himself with the hard-right Republican base, which has made the Somali-born Ms. Omar a target for some of its most vicious attacks.
objective (sic) article goes on to describe "conservative naysayers" (who made several misleading claims), "hard-right detractors", "the hard-right Republican base", and those described as "ultraconservative members" of the GOP, including the "far-right congressman [who has] entrenched his stature as a political arsonist" (Matt Gaetz).
God forbid (sorry, Allah forbid) that Ilhan Omar should be described as an "ultraleftist member" of the Democrat party who has entrenched her "stature as a political arsonist"!
And, oh, a question: weren't the Democrats "exacting revenge" when they threw Republicans off their House committees (not to mention off the special January 6 Committee)? How about all the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump?
Update: Thanks for the Instalink, Ed. On Instapundit, reacts, writing that
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• From No Pasarán's first few weeks in operation, way back April 2004: a demented right-wing talking point [and] horrendously ridiculous and borderline racist attacks … Bush's fierce attack dog [Karen Hughes, who is] to pounce on Kerry while consistently flattering her friend George to extremes, [turns out to be] a cheese-eating surrender monkey. (Wow, brings back memories… It's been awhile since we heard the term "cheese-eating surrender monkey", hasn't it?)
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell … is exerting his minority status in convoluted and uncharted ways, all in an effort to stop President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda and even if doing so pushes the country toward grave economic uncertainty.
… The crisis has cemented McConnell’s legacy as a master of misdirection. He’s the architect of the impasse and the one who resolved it, if only for the short term.
… The tea party class of Republicans a decade ago brought the nation to the brink of default over the issue and set a new GOP strategy.
Over at Newsbusters in July 2022, Clay Waters pointed out the typical mainstream media double standard:
As new economic data showed prices climbed a shocking 9.1 percent year-to-year in June, New York Times economic policy reporter Alan Rappeport lamented Republicans "seizing" the issue on the front of Friday’s Business section: “G.O.P. Seizes on Inflation, Putting Democrats in Peril.”When Republicans weren’t “seizing,” they were latching. And so, after Pouncing, Gloating, Seizing (in order to Undermine and/or to Put in Peril), and Latching, we get "Demonizing" and "Exacting Revenge".
To use the Instapundit bloggers' good ol' "Evergreen" Jim Treacher quote:
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