Representative Ilhan Omar has only been in politics for a couple of years, but she's

already been on the cover of Time magazine.

She popped up for a cameo in a Maroon 5 music video right after the Cardi B solo. She's Muslim. She's Somali. She's the first woman to wear a hijab on the floor of the house, actually.

And she's been saying some things out loud, or at least online, that people in Washington usually keep to themselves.

It was about a tweet. We're talking about tweets a lot here.

This weekend, speaking out, got her into trouble.

She fired off these tweets, accusing a lobbying group, A-PAC, of pushing Congress to punish her

because of her stance on Israel.

And she tried to be funny while she was doing it.

Where she says, it's all about the Benjamin's baby.

And there will be people who look at this and say, what she is doing is perpetuating this myth, this notion that Jewish money is somehow controlling things in this country.

It's becoming a bit of a pattern.

And, you know, one wonders how many times she can get away with

saying, like, oh, I didn't know this was a stereotype before people wonder why she keeps using

them.

Josh Keating covers foreign affairs here at Slate.

It says, Representative Omar has been accused of doing this before.

There were tweets where she said, Israel had hypnotized the world and accused it of evil doings.

And I'm not sure if hypnotized was a notorious BIG reference going with her theme.

But anyway.

This time around, criticism of Representative Omar has been swift and nearly universal.

She apologized after Democratic leaders insisted on it, and President Trump suggested she should

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