MENKEN: ‘Broadening’ Is An Insult To Us All

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her Democratic colleagues failed to condemn and rebuke one of their own. Not only did they not remove a hateful woman from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but they could not even issue a straightforward condemnation. Instead, they included other forms of bias to create a resolution that was broad, multifaceted, and ultimately meaningless.

The same Democrats who said “all lives matter” is no response to Black Lives Matter, as it did not focus upon the underlying issue at hand, explicitly refused to focus upon the issue at hand. And those who said it was wrong for President Trump to “condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides” in Charlottesville refused to specifically denounce Ilhan Omar’s bigotry. This is not merely rank hypocrisy; it is both evil and dangerous.