From The Hill, “Liberal Reps. Ilham Omar (Minn.) and Cori Bush (Mo.) were the only two Democrats to vote against a House measure blocking an end to oil imports from Russia. … Omar’s vote in part reflected her views that blocking Russian oil could lead the U.S. to rely more on and strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia. Progressives are critical that the Biden administration has not more forcefully pushed human rights in the Kingdom out of concern it would harm U.S. and Saudi security and energy cooperation. This includes holding off sanctions on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018; the jailing of dissidents and political opponents, in particular women, and Riyadh’s role in civilian deaths in Yemen’s civil war. Progressives also see humanitarian differences between how the U.S. and allies are responding to the deadly conflict in Ukraine and the ongoing strife in the Arab world. Liberals have for years called for an end to America’s role in the Saudi-Yemen battle.”
What the f***!?!? You’re kidding me, right? How is this possible? How!?!? I will not be a hypocrite, and I cannot abide such a blatant double standard, so I must throw these two into the same traitor category as other RepubliKKKlans. It saddens me that these two dumbass Democrats cannot see the forest for the trees regarding Ukraine, the security of the West, and democracy. And let’s not conflate the issues of Saudi Arabia and Russia. To be sure, Saudi Arabia is a bad actor; they always have been, but they are not destabilizing the world order and democracy. The most pressing and immediate concern before us today is Putin’s Russia. Any vote against crippling Putin is unacceptable. This is not the time to start justifying bad votes with false equivalencies and what-about-isms.