The snowflakes are snowflaking.
After California Sen. Alex Padilla approached Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Thursday (June 12) during a press conference that promptly led to him being wrestled to the floor and handcuffed, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants Padilla censured.
Johnson might as well consider himself the head of the “Get Along Gang” since he only does want makes President Trump happy. Nothing about Sen. Padilla’s approach and or questioning of Noem was inappropriate and definitely didn’t warrant censure but that’s never stopped Johnson from working to get President Trump’s approval.
“I think that that behavior at a minimum rises to the level of a censure,” Johnson told reporters, The Hill reports.
“I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we’re going to do, that’s not what we’re going to act.”
“We’re not going to have branches fighting physically and having senators charging Cabinet secretaries,” he added. “We got to do better and I hope that we will.”
The incident that quickly made the rounds on social media shows Padilla identifying himself as what appears to be some kind of security guard is pushing him back. He’s is taken into a hallway where he is forced to the ground, handcuffed and escorted from the event.
When pressed about whether Padilla should be censured, Speaker Mike Johnson did the thing politicians do where they totally express their opinion and then act as if that opinion that just got finished expressing doesn’t matter.
Meanwhile, Johnson is acting like Padilla “Terry Tate’d” Noem. He didn’t. He merely said that he had questions for Noem. Padilla did interrupt the press conference Noem was holding in L.A. and that might’ve been because Padilla is watching his state face the National Guard and Marines over non-violent protest against unjust immigration enforcement.
“I saw the same video, a very brief video, that I think many people did — I think the senator’s actions, my view, is it was wildly inappropriate,” Johnson said. “You don’t charge a sitting Cabinet secretary, and everybody can draw their own conclusions, you can see it’s a heated debate here.”
Meanwhile, a Congressional censure is the equivalent of a public hand smacking. It’s a public admonishment of behavior but it doesn’t lead to anything.
Senator Padilla is not in custody and his questions have still not been answered.