The low-wattage Democratic frosh Congresswomen

In today's hearings before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen testified that Donald Trump was a racist. Republican Congressman Mark Meadows then introduced testimony from Lynne Patton, a black woman whom Trump appointed to HUD, to the effect that Trump was not a racist. When freshman Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib got her opportunity to question Mr Cohen, she read the following remarks:

Just because someone [i.e., Donald Trump] has a person of color, a black person [i.e., Lynne Patton] working for them, does not mean they aren’t racist and [mumble, stumble] the fact that someone [i.e., Congressman Meadows] would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee, is alone racist in itself.

In other words, even if a Republican President has a black woman working for him, he is a racist. And even if a Congressman, whose nieces and nephews, as it turns out, are people of color, invites a black woman to testify that the Republican President is not a racist, that Congressman is a racist, too. Of course, if the Republican President had not employed and the Republican Congressman had not invited the black woman to testify, they probably would still have been labeled racists. This is because, in the eyes of the new radical leftists of the Democratic Party, Republicans, qua Republicans, are, simply, racists. I guess everything Republicans do is evidence that they are racists!

And yet, one is forced to ask, as Congressman Meadows then did: Isn't calling Ms Patton a "prop" not itself racist? Calling any black woman a "prop" is the equivalent of calling her a "tool" and implies that she is an Uncle Tom incapable of thinking for herself. Isn't that racism of the most vile kind?

After Congressman Meadows had requested that Ms Tlaib's remarks be stricken from the record, Chairman Elijah Cummings, obviously perceiving the outrageousness of his fellow Democrat's accusation, offered Ms Tlaib the opportunity to "rephrase" her statement. The look of exasperation and stunned disbelief on Chairman Cummings' face (at the 1:55 mark in the video) when Ms Tlaib simply offered to reread her racist statement is priceless! "How can she be so dumb?" the Chairman is obviously thinking.

Ms Tlaib then proceeds to reread her statement verbatim, offers to submit it for the record, and then proceeds to deny that she called Congressman Meadows a racist when she so obviously had. Huh?

The upshot is that, instead of proving that Congressman Meadows and President Trump are racist, Ms Tlaib ended up distracting attention from Mr Cohen's testimony and focusing it all on her own racist statements, thereby proving only how clueless and racist she herself is. Congratulations, Rashida, you, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Ilhan Omar continue to be the best proof the Republicans have of what dim young lightbulbs are populating the Democratic Party these days.

(One more piece of advice to these Democratic freshman Congresswomen: if you are going to read statements into the record of Congress, learn how to read without stumbling.)