Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) once claimed he brought “middle-school principal energy” to Congress.
Turns out it was a middle-school detention student.
On Saturday, in a move that shamed his party, his delegation and the state of New York, Bowman pulled a fire alarm at the Capitol as his party tried to delay a House vote on a stopgap spending bill.
Pulled a fire alarm.
It was as dangerous as it was immature.
Bowman, a socialist who represents the north Bronx and south Westchester County, already is one of the biggest blowhards in Congress, calling anyone who disagrees with him —including West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a fellow Democrat — a white supremacist.
He “captured the id” of Democrats, The Times once claimed.
But mostly he just captures open microphones, bragging to progressives that he’s preventing America from “sliding back into slavery.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had to break up a screaming match between him and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and when AOC is the voice of reason . . .
Democrats claim they are standing up for the “norms” of democracy, then flout them at every turn.
Jamaal Bowman didn’t have the votes, so he resorted to sabotage.
Let the Capitol police investigate, and then the House should censure him — formally. Inexcusable.