It continues to astound me that there are some issues out there that should transcend various factions in the Republican Party, that should be a rallying cry for every right-leaning person contending to be motivated by moral decency, and the party still can’t come together to take a stand.
Perhaps it’s naiveté on my part.
Democrats, the resistance party that helped usher in an era of incivility by portraying every American with even the slightest differences in thought and opinion by labeling them alternately as “fascists” or “Nazis,” — the kind of rhetoric that one can draw a straight line from to the bullet casings found at the crime scene in Utah last week — will march in lockstep on any and every vote.
And yet Republicans, finally handed an opportunity to reprimand an official for vile, hateful, incendiary rhetoric, in an era of “assassination culture” on the left, just can’t muster up the intestinal fortitude to send a message.
A resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and remove her from key House committees failed Wednesday in a narrow 214-213 vote. Four Republicans joined Democrats to table the measure over Omar’s comments following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The attempt to censure Ilhan Omar has failed.
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 17, 2025
Watch: Ilhan Omar Mocks Charlie Kirk, Says Supporters Are ‘Full of ****’
There is very little to debate when it comes to Omar’s comments. They were contemptible, disgusting, as is a vast percentage of the words that have come out of her mouth since she set foot in Congress in 2019.
She is a hateful, loathsome individual. But her loathsomeness crossed a line when, as my RedState colleague Bonchie reported last week, barely 24 hours after Kirk had been murdered by a suspect allegedly driven by his own hatred and far-left ideology (two interchangeable terms), Omar “added another mark to her record as one of the most hateful, depraved members of Congress.”
Omar took the occasion to join the equally reprehensible pro-Hamas journalist Mehdi Hasan to bash Kirk, borderline insinuating that the conservative icon had gotten what he deserved for his “words and actions.”
“There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him [Kirk] just wanting to have a civil debate,” she said. “These people are full of s***, and it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar is happy Charlie Kirk was kiIIed: “He downplayed George Floyd. He opposed Juneteenth.”
Look at their grins pic.twitter.com/Ra5Eg4MZ3k
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 11, 2025
You understand what she is saying here. He wasn’t simply the effective debater; he was something worse. It wasn’t “civil,” in her view. And for that, go ahead and watch me trash his legacy before he’s even been buried.
Omar and Hasan laugh and mock him throughout the interview.
But there was more. The Minnesota congresswoman also reposted a video to social media calling Charlie Kirk a “stochastic terrorist” and a “reprehensible human being.”
Somebody should introduce her to a mirror. Regardless, these are clear-cut, censure-worthy comments, especially when Kirk was killed after being portrayed repeatedly by left-wing media as a stochastic terrorist. Especially when it is clear that the left in this country has crossed a line that, left unpunished, will result in more violent efforts to silence political opponents.
Republican Reps. Mike Flood (NE), Jeff Hurd (CO), Cory Mills (FL), and Tom McClintock (CA) apparently didn’t see things that way.
BREAKING – Four Republicans joined Democrats to protect Ilhan Omar, refusing to remove her from committee assignments after she defamed Charlie Kirk following his assassination, with Mike Flood, Jeff Hurd, Cory Mills, and Tom McClintock siding with Democrats. pic.twitter.com/T6DToCefJm
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) September 17, 2025
McClintock should come as no surprise, having been unable to locate his spine for several years now. He voted against measures to impeach former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, as well as a measure to censure then-Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Captain Francesco Schettino would think him a coward.
McClintock and the feckless four have cited First Amendment rights in their defense of Omar. But this isn’t about free speech. Omar has every right to express her feelings on the matter. She clearly knows that. It’s about decorum from an elected official. Ask Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) if you can be censured for speech. Gosar was formally censured by the House of Representatives and stripped of his committee assignments in 2021 for posting an anime cartoon video on the internet.
An anime cartoon.
Democrats, you see, know how to play the game, never turning on their own, always using every measure in the arsenal to stop their opposition. Republicans, however, fall for it time and time again.
Mills’ vote to protect Omar from censure was the deciding one, according to Axios, and, despite his Bronze Star recipient history, may have been the most gutless, having, according to the outlet, “voted with Democrats at the very last moment before the vote closed.”
Vote and run. Tail tucked firmly between his legs.
We didn’t have the votes or guts to censure Omar. pic.twitter.com/OpkOiqO7Fg
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) September 17, 2025
It should be noted that Mills had a personal stake in this vote. Democrats had vowed to force a vote to censure him if the GOP moved forward on Omar.
“The Mills resolution centers on reports and allegations of domestic violence and sexual misconduct, stolen valor, making false financial disclosures, and committing campaign finance violations,” Axios reports, all of which he vehemently denies.
Defending Charlie Kirk’s legacy, holding officials accountable for rhetoric that has led to violence, and restoring decorum to Congress all went down the drain because of a threat?
“We may not like or agree with what someone says, but that does not mean we should deny their protected 1A Right,” Mills said in a statement on X. He invoked comments from Kirk himself in the process.
The 7 Articles and 27 Amendments of our Constitution are not only to be followed when it serves your purpose. Unlike with Rep McIver, whom is accused of assault and obstruction of LEO, which I supported not to table, this is a 1A issue. We may not like or agree with what someone… pic.twitter.com/JbDfJrEncK
— Cory Mills (@CoryMillsFL) September 17, 2025
Kirk’s free speech rights were taken from him. Omar’s were not. They would not have been, even with a vote to hold her accountable. She still has the right to portray him as a “stochastic terrorist” despite how repulsive that may be.
She’d still have that right even if Mills, McClintock, Hurd, or Flood voted to censure. Which, incidentally, is itself an expression of speech. The U.S. Senate describes it as little more than “a formal statement of disapproval.”
You couldn’t stand up and make that statement?
Betraying principles, disregarding morals, caving to partisan pressures, all while hiding behind weak arguments to save Omar. Absolute cowards.
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