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Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Pelosi after she knocked progressives for voting against spending
The Hill ^ | 07/06/19 | Aris Folley

Posted on 07/06/2019 8:29:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit back at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over Twitter on Saturday night after Pelosi knocked the freshman lawmaker for not voting with moderate Democrats on a spending package passed by Congress last week.

Earlier on Saturday, Pelosi took aim at progressive congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) after the four voted against a $4.6 billion spending package recently passed by Congress that sought to remedy issues at the southern border.

In an interview with the The New York Times, Pelosi said she believed the four lawmakers made themselves irrelevant by voting against what she referred to as “our bill," which passed in a 305-102 vote with 91 other Democrats also voting against it.

“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” she added. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”

In response, Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter: “That public “whatever” is called public sentiment. And wielding the power to shift it is how we actually achieve meaningful change in this country.”

In a second tweet, Ocasio-Cortez said she did not believe "it was a good idea for Dems to blindly trust the Trump admin when so many kids have died in their custody."

“It’s a huge mistake," she added. "This admin also refuses to hand over docs to Congress on the whereabouts of families. People’s lives are getting bargained, & for what?”


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; budget; catfight; democrats; nancypelosi; ocasiocortez; pelosi; rentfree; rentfreeonfr
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To: Bob434; yesthatjallen; Red Badger

21 posted on 07/06/2019 10:46:09 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (There's people who insist on respecting transexuals' chosen pronouns who also refer to God as "she.")
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Pelosi on AOC, Omar, others: 'These people have their public whatever and their Twitter world'......

Mmmmmmmm......Nancy sounds regretful. She arranged the "diversity pose"
for the Rolling Stones cover---giving them instant fame. Who's sorry now?

Democrats' Darlings of Diversity

Ilhan Omar---harbinger of Democrat decline.

Lookit how proud Pelosi is of this anti-Semite, Christian hater......
Nanzi kneeled in obeisance to the Clitless Wonder
Nanzi put Omar on the Foreign Relations Committee, bowing to Omar's request.

22 posted on 07/07/2019 2:02:02 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Lunatic Freshmen Women are Killing the Democrat Party
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon / FR Posted by EyesOfTX

Everyone is talking about lunatic congressional freshmen women today, and none of it is good. That’s really nothing all that new, but when Democrats have reached the point where their members of congress are even being slammed on CNN of all places, you know they have a problem. Watch this clip:

Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra CNN's John King slams Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) anti-Semitic remarks on the Holocaust: "Palestinian leaders at the time sided with Hitler"

In addition to their exploding antisemitism problem personified by Tlaib and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, the Democrats have obviously gotten some very bad polling data about their religion of Climate Change, and the insane “Green New Deal” being pushed by New York congressnitwit Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

That’s the only reasonable conclusion to reach when you see AOC issuing this tweet over the weekend: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ✔ @AOC This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and “fact check” it. Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows.

Max Kennerly ✔ @MaxKennerly I've seen criticism of "like 10 people." The ten richest Americans are worth $730 billion. The fourteen richest American families (excluding the Koch brothers, so no double-counting) are worth $511 billion. Together, they're worth more than 60% of Americans combined. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1127270688925134849 … But there is no doubt at all that the former Bronx bartender was dead serious when she issued this tweet in April: Embedded video Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ✔ @AOC Climate change is here + we’ve got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half. A #GreenNewDeal is our plan for a world and a future worth fighting for. How did we get here? What is at stake? And where are we going? Please watch & share widely ⬇️ I’m sooooo serious, y’all! OMG!

So, what has changed in the four weeks since that tweet was sent? Well, we know that every decision Democrats make is based on focus groups and polling data, so the obvious answer is that the “Green New Deal” and its 12-year “deadline” (her word, not anyone else’s) is being panned by the voters. When the polling goes south on any issue being pushed by the Democrats, the talking points must change. Thus, what was a hard “deadline” on April 17 becomes “O.M.G., y’all! I was like totes kidding and stuff about that whole 12-year thing, or something!” Let’s be painfully honest here: AOC has no clue what the word ‘sarcasm’ even means, would not know ‘dry humor’ if it snuck up and bit her on the, ummmm, ankle. Or something. As for Tlaib and her latest despicably antisemitic remarks over the weekend, well, here they are in case you missed them:

“There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people’s passports. And just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.”

So, here’s a woman who gets a “calming feeling” when she thinks about an event in history in which more than 6 million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis and their collaborators. Oh, and their collaborators included the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, who happened to be the leader of the loosely-allied Arabs in the Middle East who called themselves “Palestinians.” There was no effort on the part of Tlaib’s “ancestors” to “create a safe haven for Jews” during this period of time. In fact, Jewish people had begun migrating back into the region in the early 1880s, and of course have a long history in that part of world dating back thousands of years. In fact, the Arab world – including the “Palestinians” in the region – rabidly opposed the creation of a Jewish state after World War II had ended, and refused to cooperate with it in any way. In 1964, these “Palestinians” – created the Palestinian Liberation Army and began conducting terror attacks on Jewish citizens in Israel.

The first leader of the PLO was a Lebanese national named Ahmad Shukeiri. In 1969, the PLO chose as its leader an Egyptian national, Yassir Arafat, not for his peaceful intentions but for his skills in conducting terrorist warfare. In 2006, Palestinians elected to be ruled by the terrorist organization known as Hamas, which still rules them today.

These are not “peaceful” people who voluntarily gave up land or anything else to “help” post-war Jews. That “calming feeling” Tlaib experiences when contemplating the barbaric deaths of 6 million Jews is based on a politically-motivated myth.

But Tlaib, along with AOC and fellow raging anti-Semite Ilhan Omar, are the new, ugly faces of today’s Democrat Party. And it seems that no matter what they say, no matter how repugnant their public declarations become, Nancy Pelosi will do nothing to discipline them.

Why? Simple: The repugnant, ugly, fantasy-based views they express are in fact mainstream thought in today’s Democrat Party. The reality is that these freshmen women are killing the Democrat Party not because of the insane things they believe, but because they so bluntly and frequently express them in public.

If you are Jewish (or Christian) and you vote for these people, you do so at your own peril. Then again, that holds true for all of us, and has for a long time now. That is all. Follow me on Twitter at @GDBlackmon

23 posted on 07/07/2019 2:03:13 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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I think Pelosi has a lot to do with who gets money in the party.

AOC is gonna get her a** kicked.

24 posted on 07/07/2019 2:58:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: yesthatjallen

She knows of course that Obama kept NO, NONE, NADA records of their “caged” families.


25 posted on 07/07/2019 3:00:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: yesthatjallen

Paging Dr. Frankenstein, pick up the white courtesy phone.


26 posted on 07/07/2019 4:30:40 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s an historical truism that the Left eats its own. But Nancy doesn’t read history, obviously. She could have cut off these backbenchers at the knees but instead she put them on important committees where they could do the most damage.


27 posted on 07/07/2019 5:01:46 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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-—If she wants——

That’s like the stateent “it’s the will of Allah” Any thing can happen and be covered.

I suspect it’s the 60’s all over again and the toothpaste can’t be put back in the tube. I suspect moderation will have a very hard time prevailing. I suspect the 60’s liberals now in control will go down the tube with the current radicals. The curreent crop will either prevail or be killed.

The moderates are the old time radicals


28 posted on 07/07/2019 5:26:34 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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How much longer is Nancy going to put up with AOC? What, all this time she’s been a paper dragon? A total wimp?


29 posted on 07/07/2019 6:46:07 AM PDT by bgill
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To: yesthatjallen

The result of when greedy twisted minds gain control they have a long history of such actions.
The know how to prey on the slow and non thinkers and the free ride critters just tell them what they want to hear has gave them many votes,if they can’t get the votes they jimmy the game.
Act 2 always blame others.


30 posted on 07/07/2019 7:05:53 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Lauren BaRecall

Good. So now you can’t reproduce.....................


31 posted on 07/08/2019 6:32:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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