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 Red States: AOC Loses Her Mind Over Lauren Boebert's Christmas Gun Pic ...   Some   flipped out   when Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)   posted a photo  in front of the Christmas tree with members of his family all holding rifles. Then Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) offered him support with a picture of her own family. That sent Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)  over the edge  and she accused Boebert of not being about the true spirit of Christmas. She and Boebert have been going at each other of late. ... Then there was her joke about riding an elevator with Omar making the crack about it should be safe since Omar was not carrying a backpack, such as those used by an Islamic terrorist.  This joke was used to suggest Boebert was engaged in Islamophobia.  Clearly the squad can't take a joke.

 Steven Hayward: A few days ago “progressive” Democrats the House succeeded in getting the  Appropriations Committee to strip out $1 billion in U.S. funding for Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense program, which relies on a lot of U.S.-made technology such that the Iron Dome appropriation is something of an export subsidy, from the continuing resolution to keep the feddie guvmint operating through the end of the year. This did not set well with “mainstream” Democrats, and today the House brought up a standalone bill to provide funding for Iron Dome. It passed 420-9-2. Yes, you are reading that box score correctly. Two House members voted “present.” One of them was Squad Queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her fellow Squad members mostly voted No on the proposal. The No votes comprising the House Democratic Anti-Semitic Caucus were: Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), André Carson (D-Ind.), Marie Newman (D-Ill.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), ...