Just a week after Congressman Lee Zeldin bent over backwards to defend House Republican Whip Steve Scalise’s speech in front of a white supremacist group led by a known anti-Semitic, he now hasn’t condemned shameful and inflammatory rhetoric from his colleague, Congressman Randy Weber who compared President Obama to Hitler. Zeldin’s continued pattern of misguided behavior is showing that he’s more loyal to his Republican Party leaders than his Long Island constituents.
From Josh Schwerin, DCCC: “It was bad enough that Congressman Lee Zeldin defended one of his leaders appearance at a white supremacist rally, but now he’s staying silent as one of his colleagues compares the President to Hitler. Lee Zeldin may not be in the mainstream on policies but siding with Congressmen who attend clan rallies and compare the president to Hitler is simply reprehensible.”
BACKGROUND:
Headline: Texas Rep. Randy Weber Compares Obama to Hitler [Politico, 1/12/15]
Even Adolph Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris. (For all the wrong reasons.) Obama couldn’t do it for right reasons
— Randy Weber (@TXRandy14) January 13, 2015