Thread by @lauratron1000

It’s been a busy week. I’m finally able to turn my attention to @repbrianfitz. He’s one of four republicans who voted yes to condemn Trump’s racist attacks on four congresswomen of color. /1 #PA01 #PhotoOpFitz

People lined up pretty quick to congratulate him & he got some very good press (let’s leave aside that voting to condemn racism should be a total no-brainer for every sitting member of congress). /2 #PA01 #PhotoOpFitz

I wanted to wait a few hours to thank him because, well, I know him to be a fence-straddling, two-stepping, backpedaling “bipartisan” wonder boy. I thought it was too good to be true. /3 #PA01 #PhotoOpFitz

And he didn’t disappoint. Notice how he “both sides” the issue, framing it as “language & tone used by so many in the country.” This isn’t a condemnation of Trump telling 4 of Fitz’s colleagues to go back to their own countries. It's meaningless gibberish disguised as homily. /4

The Hatfields and the McCoys? Really? Maybe he was trying to be folksy, but Fitz may as well be chiding the Montagues and Capulets.

And don’t even get me started on how we’re all created in the image of God. Even asylum seekers, Brian? /5

Hours later, @repbrianfitz decides to chide Mayor Kenney. It’s laughable seeing as Fitz never once denounced Trump’s dangerous rhetoric (that actually endangers 4 sitting congresswomen) as “unbecoming of a public official.” /6

And then the dog whistle. Omar! BDS! Israel! Well, I guess that worked in Fitzpatrick’s smear campaign against @ScottWallacePA , so why re-invent the wheel, right? /7 #PA01 #PhotoOpFitz

It was disingenuous then, and it’s damned dangerous now. But Brian can’t lose votes with red meat #PA01 crowd, so, ta-da! /8

Antifa! Run children! Hide yourselves! BTW, I have never once heard Fitz condemn white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

I have also never once heard him condemn this administration’s cruel detainment of children, even when they died in federal custody. /9

#PA01

So there’s your bipartisan wonder boy. Your Problem Solvers Caucus pitchman. Your independent voice. I don’t know about the rest of #PA01, but I ain’t buying what he’s selling. /end