As the custom goes, a groundhog spends most of the year underground, where it’s safe, comfortable, and unseen. When Groundhog Day arrives, the animal is ‘ushered’ out of a den, is pointed at the sun, is shown to the crowd, and is returned to its den before anybody starts poking around its hole.
It’s a similar cycle for politics, and the nation just watched the latest emergence.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) resurfaced on CBS News’s Face the Nation Sunday, as federal scrutiny intensified around one of the largest welfare fraud scandals in Minnesota history.
Her timing wasn’t an accident; it rarely is.
A Scandal Too Big to Spin Away
As you’ve read in PJ Media, federal agents and investigators descended on Minneapolis to probe allegations that went well beyond Feed Our Future. It’s as if the “alleged” involved parties saw that and said:
Hold my beer!
Programs affected by these new corruption charges include emergency housing, autism therapy, home health services, and other state-run welfare and Medicaid programs. Fraud estimates have climbed to around $9 billion.
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Authorities are trying to locate paper trails and determine where the money went, and are now trying to confirm whether portions of the misspent funds went overseas.
Outrage as a Career Move
Like clockwork, when pressure builds, Omar doesn’t offer details or, Heaven forbid, introspection; instead, she offers a performance piece. On Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, she told host Margaret Brennan that federal agents are sowing confusion and chaos, framing enhanced enforcement as persecution, while pivoting to complaints about targeting immigrant communities.
The actual substance of the federal investigations, despite billions in fraud, paused benefit payments, and expanding probes, barely registered to this narcissistic, “allegedly” incestuous woman.
Oversight failures and serious questions about financial waste deserved direct answers. Taxpayers and fraud victims deserved them.
Instead, she broke out the old chestnuts—broad accusations and indignation without specifics—except, of course, about ICE and Orange Man terrible. Somali providers are now under scrutiny in communities tied to multiple high-risk programs, connections appearing in public records and federal case filings. Her comfort with outrage was there long before answers to current questions ever were.
A Comfortable Stage, Plush Seating Included
Omar’s choice of venue felt managed for gratitude rather than any kind of interrogation: friendly hosts, soft questions, and no real follow-ups allowed. Those rules of engagement turned a potentially tough exchange (um, sorry I forgot, this is CBS and Madge Brennan we’re talking about) into an Oprah-esque coffee klatch.
All personal grievances took a backseat to the federal investigations, the suspension in benefit payments from Washington, and continued raids across welfare and Medicaid programs.
The billions in alleged fraud didn’t even see the light of day.
I know, shocked face.
Families who depend on those services were barely even referenced in the interview chat. The most pressing question—how the money vanished under oversight—never received a proper answer.
Patterns That Refuse to Change
Patterns matter because they, like math, don’t lie. Look at Omar’s public life, and you’ll find a recurring loop: controversy + hard questions = erupting outrage and exiting stage left.
Her anti-Semetic comments were “misunderstandings,” ethics complaints became political attacks, and now, systemic fraud allegations and federal investigations are met with denunciations of motive instead of engagement of fact.
How someone so slight in size creates such loud indignation is impressive, but her crying foul is amplified by a fawning media and association with, ah, community groups.
Final Thoughts
Groundhogs never apologize or explain themselves; they simply wait underground until all the noise fades away — then, when conditions are again friendly, they’ll pop back up. It’s an instinct the country sees in Omar in real-time.
Ilhan Omar surfaced to accuse rather than answer, speaking loudly and decidedly, comfortably rather than clearly. She treated scrutiny as persecution and proximity as coincidence. Allegations of missing billions in state and federal programs barely took a breath during the conversation, while responsibility remained buried.
I hate to break it to her, but life ain’t all buttermilk and wh**es; actions and obfuscation have consequences.
Sunlight never needs permission; it arrives anyway, patient and unbothered, long after the groundhog slips back into its burrow, hoping nobody noticed the footprints.
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