It’s hard to make this up, but the prize for the day for a U.S. congressman’s totally inappropriate, “out to lunch” moral posturing goes to first-term Rep. Max Miller (R-OH). Provoked by yesterday’s ritualistic damning of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), for not backing down on the matter of the ongoing mass murder of thousands and thousands of women, children and the elderly in Gaza, Miller weighed in: “I believe that actions have consequences, and I believe that after a long string of antisemitic remarks and hate-filled rhetoric, censure is an appropriate consequence for the gentlelady from Michigan. Never again, damn it, means never again.”
Miller won for two outrageous entries in only two sentences. Miller’s invocation of “Never again...” stands in stark relief against his track record on mass murder. He’s called last month for making the Gaza Strip “into a parking lot” and stated that there should be no “rules of engagement” in Israel’s attack on Gaza.
Further, on his invocation of actions having consequences, Miller is the poster boy for his actions not having consequences. He’s had a history of drinking and violence leading to arrests, and has never served a day:
An arrest in 2007 for assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, to which he pled “no contest,” was dismissed as part of a diversion program.
