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AOC: Sometimes I Wonder If I’m Unfit To Be In Congress. Then I Look At Sen. Mike Lee.
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| 03/26/2019
| AllahPundit
Posted on 03/26/2019 6:58:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
My instinct is to finish that headline with “And then I know for sure that I’m unfit,” but no, that’s not her point. A sitting member of Congress who somehow has zero idea of what we spend on national defense wants to have a test o’ fitness with, of all people, Mike Lee.
Mike Lee. Not Matt Gaetz. Not Louie Gohmert or Steve King or some other ripe target for mockery. The guy she’s using as her barometer for congressional fitness is brainy enough to be a Supreme Court candidate and one of the more policy-focused Republicans in Congress, sufficiently independent in his conservatism that he recently voted with Democrats to cancel Trump’s border emergency and to withdraw U.S. assistance for the Saudi war in Yemen. Granted, he’s an ardent opponent of her pet project, the Green New Deal; go figure that a fiscal hawk would be nervous about a $93 trillion outlay when even Barack Obama’s nervous about it. But if there’s any right-winger in the Senate who might be willing to work with her and other progressives on subjects of mutual interest, it’s Lee.
So naturally here she is essentially calling him a moron.
A fun synergy between him and Ocasio-Cortez: Off the top of my head, I believe they’re the two most famous examples of successful primary challengers in Congress. Sen. Bob Bennett’s defeat in a multi-candidate Utah Senate primary that led to Lee’s victory in 2010 was effectively the start of the tea-party movement as an electoral force. Eight years later, AOC’s upset of Joe Crowley may be the beginning of a similar progressive grassroots backlash to incumbents nationally. Her lament about “imposter syndrome” might be something Lee himself experienced early on as an unlikely senator. There is unlikely common ground here, if she could get past the insults.
Don’t be too hard on her, though. Watch this speech, which is very different from the usual Lee fare, and see how much respect he has for her signature proposal. Nothing communicates disdain for an opponent quite like a picture of Aquaman riding a sea horse.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Utah; US: Vermont
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To: SeekAndFind
it’s not AOC but the voters who elected her who imho are unfit to vote.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:03:26 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: SeekAndFind
something tells me we are going to see a lot more young female hispanic socialists with bodacious mammary glands in lieu of brains in congress in the near future. when one has a winning strategy, do not change it and keep on using it! hooray for undocumented immigrants and the women’s right to vote!
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:06:43 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: SeekAndFind
Senator Mike Lee is one of the best senators we have ...
I say this even when I don’t agree with everything he says
AOC, on the other hand, is a complete embarrassment and idiot who has no business being paid by the American taxpayers for her rubbish
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:08:07 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: SteveH
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Straight from the horse's mouth.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:08:46 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:08:49 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: SeekAndFind
use of the adjective “unfit,” and indirection in its application, seem to be hallmarks of socialist rhetoric.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:09:14 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: Fungi
Straight from the horse's mouth. Which end of the horse?
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:11:43 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
To: SeekAndFind
Self absorbed, victim, arrogance, and hatred all in one Tweet. Nice....
To: SeekAndFind
How ironic is it that she has an incorrect understanding of imposter syndrome?
It’s for people who actually DESERVE the job they’re in, honey.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:13:48 PM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: SeekAndFind
Good comeback by AOC
Lee is an a$$clown for pulling this stunt
AOC is serious (series) as a heart attack, she wants here kind to take over with their stupid childish ideas, but Lee just pulls out childish mockery to meet her on her level
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:14:02 PM PDT
by
KTM rider
( .......than to post and , eveidence was wiped outall doubt)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:14:33 PM PDT
by
A Cyrenian
(Send everyone back to their states and let the states pay for their congress electives.)
To: Fungi
....Straight from the horse's mouth..... ROTFL!
Horses Mouth Is Right. lol
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:16:45 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: SeekAndFind
She’s unfit to breathe our air..she is honestly the biggest retard on the planet..and thats saying A LOT considering this planet has plenty of retards, they are all commie by the way just saying
To: SeekAndFind
She is unfit for Congress and Lee is light years ahead of her in every way.
And I don’t even know the guy, but it just stands to reason since just about any sentient being is.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:17:42 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: SeekAndFind
AOC, it’s like a multiple choice test. Always go with your first answer.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:27:18 PM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
To: KTM rider
Mockery, communicating on the level of your audience....I’s say AOC got a big dose of Alinsky and doesn’t even recognize it.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:38:12 PM PDT
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: SeekAndFind
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is unfit to be in Congress. Her district is unfit to vote for a Congressman. Matter of fact, Bozo the Clown is more qualified...
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:44:48 PM PDT
by
ConservaTeen
(WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
To: Fiddlstix
Always an honor to hear from the most honorable Fiddlestix.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:49:36 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: SeekAndFind
After graduation from law school in 1997, Lee served as a law clerk to Judge Dee Benson of the United States District Court for the District of Utah. The following year, he clerked for then-Judge Samuel Alito, who was serving at that time on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. After finishing his clerkships, Lee joined the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley Austin, where he specialized in appellate and Supreme Court litigation. Several years later, Lee returned to Utah to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney in Salt Lake City, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He served as general counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. from January 2005 until June 2006, when he returned to Washington to serve a one-year clerkship at the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Alito.[3] Lee returned to Utah (and to private practice) in the summer of 2007, joining the Salt Lake office of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Howrey LLP. Lee focused on courtroom advocacy and constitutional law.[citation needed
From wikipedia
Yeah, that's telling him off, little beer slinger, that's the way.
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posted on
03/26/2019 7:49:53 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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