Chrissy Houlahan Strikes Back
As promised, the Congresswoman is going to work hard to bring the rules back to ALL in the House. This is from Politico, and it is just Chrissy getting started. You may still disagree with her vote - but she is committed to calling out the Rethuglicans for their hypocrisy.
From Politico:
Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan was one of 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green for interrupting President Donald Trump's joint address, but she also confronted Speaker Mike Johnson about his decision to punish Green but not GOP members who had broken rules.
“After my discussion on the House floor last week when Speaker Johnson told me he’d have to censure half the members if he actually enforced the rules of the Congress, I decided to help, and tonight introduced a resolution to censure Representative Boebert for her racist and derogatory statements about Representative Al Green,” Houlahan said in a statement.
Houlahan's measure would punish Boebert (R-Colo.) for using disparaging language about Green in a television interview, referring to her comments that he was shaking "his pimp cane” at Trump. Democrats could force a vote on the measure if they introduce it as privileged. Republican hard-liners have also introduced a measure to boot Green from his committees, though Johnson has not committed to moving that resolution and the House isn't expected to act on it this week.
This feels performative. She received a lot of blowback from her vote, and now she's introducing a resolution to see if the rules are applied equally. This effort feels futile. I would be highly surprised if Johnson let the resolution pass, and even if he did, it would automatically be shut down by the GOP. I acknowledge her attempt at consistency, but it is too little, too late. Al Greene was censured, not just for breach of protocol, but also because he's a Democrat. The GOP won't double-cross their own.
Would she have done this were she not called out (loudly) on her vote? I wonder. The bottom line is the vote for censure was the vote of 10 white people telling a black man how to act. Personally I think that's disgraceful.