Parker: Reality checking in with Congress' young women
By Kathleen Parker
The Washington Post
As the new freshman class of congressional women bopped, hopped and doo-wopped into town, old sourpusses smirked: They’ll meet reality soon enough.
Actually, ‘twas I who said this to herself. And, well, not to brag or anything.
The gals were barely through orientation before the powder room became a powder keg, with some of the more lively issuing brash statements that many have interpreted as anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-Republican, anti-President Trump, and even anti-Sen. Lindsey Graham, all steeped in self-identity with an occasional dash of profanity.
Remember when women just wanted to roar? Now they want to impeach the “mother******.” So said newly sworn-in Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan. She was only speaking to a MoveOn.org reception, so she was given a break. Besides, women hardly have the corner on stupid, overreaching, profane commentary. Tlaib’s bigger problem out of the gate is her apparent preference for a one-state solution to a negotiated, two-state Israel and Palestine, which came as a bit of a surprise.
Tlaib initially campaigned as a pro-two-stater, for which she received the support of J Street, a nonprofit, pro-Israel organization. But after winning the Democratic primary, she seemed to drop Israel from the map. In an August interview with In These Times magazine, she was unequivocal: “One state. It has to be one state. Separate but equal does not work.”
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