Posted on 01/16/2019 5:57:33 PM PST by Kaslin
We all knew that there would be zero bipartisanship this Congress. We started the year with the government in a shutdown over border security. House Democrats retook the majority in 2018. They’re in no mood to play ball with the Trump White House. The fight is over a mere $5 billion for part of the border wall. Reportedly, Trump offered to re-open the government if he got some of the money. Democrats rejected it; they’re more concerned with scoring points. Yet, as the Democrats suit up for battle against the Trump presidency, their left flank could cause trouble as well. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was the first to come out swinging, saying that they’re going to impeach the mother**ker, referring to Trump. Democrats were supposedly livid that Tlaib blurted this out. For weeks, top Democrats went on air saying downplaying the impeachment talk, and this happened. Frankly, it’s very possible that Democrats were made with Tlaib because she blew the non-surprising revelation that liberals want to remove Trump from office. And now, they’re trying to rein in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who dropped a doozy, saying that it’s better to be morally right than factually correct. Well, good luck with that. She recently referenced Alan Moore’s Watchmen at the suggestion the party bigwigs are trying to tell her to tone it down.
“None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with me,” she said on Twitter quoting the character Rorschach. Whatever you may think, she’s already shooting inside the ship. Folks, we may have the female version of Donald Trump (via Politico):
To quote Alan Moore: “None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.” ?? https://t.co/8TCmKNJlkD— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2019
Reporting out this story was super fascinating. Some Ds are afraid of @AOC & her massive twitter following, 2 compared her twitter use Trump's. One member who likes her told me he wants to give her advice but he's worried she will mean-tweet at him. https://t.co/0YMzebAGsO— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) January 11, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already making enemies in the House Democratic Caucus — and some of its members are mounting an operation to bring the anti-establishment, democratic socialist with 2.2 million Twitter followers into the fold.
The effort, described by nearly 20 lawmakers and aides, is part carrot, part stick: Some lawmakers with ties to Ocasio-Cortez are hoping to coax her into using her star power to unite Democrats and turn her fire on Republicans. Others simultaneously warn Ocasio-Cortez is destined for a lonely, ineffectual career in Congress if she continues to treat her own party as the enemy.
“I’m sure Ms. Cortez means well, but there’s almost an outstanding rule: Don’t attack your own people,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). “We just don’t need sniping in our Democratic Caucus.”
Incumbent Democrats are most annoyed by Ocasio-Cortez’s threat to back primary opponents against members of their ranks she deems too moderate. But their frustration goes beyond that: Democratic leaders are upset that she railed against their new set of House rules on Twitter the first week of the new Congress. Rank and file are peeved that there’s a grassroots movement to try to win her a top committee post they feel she doesn’t deserve.
Even some progressives who admire AOC, as she’s nicknamed, told POLITICO that they worry she’s not using her notoriety effectively.
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Two House Democratic sources compared her use of Twitter to Donald Trump’s. Just as congressional Republicans constantly withhold criticism of the president out of fear he’ll unleash a tweet at them, some Democrats have done the same with Ocasio-Cortez.
“People are afraid of her,” said one senior Democratic aide.
We shall see how this turns out, but the fear of mean tweets, the grassroots energy, and all-around “come at me, bro” attitude Ocasio-Cortez channels is very much like the man in the Oval Office. The exception being that Trump’s agenda is about growing the economy, creating jobs, and protecting the border; AOC’s agenda is economic death. She could flame out. She could become a total pariah on the Hill. Whatever the case, I’m hoping she continues to give her own side heartburn..for now.
(H/T NTK Network)
That fits right in with the Progressive mindset, though.
Of course the difference is that Trump knows what he’s talking about and has the experience to back it up.
This woman is a loud mouthed idiot who will get rich for essentially promising some people other people’s money.
And she’s going to give us a very entertaining episode of dems ‘eating their own’ :-)
I get the impression that AOC is too stupid to respond to either carrots or sticks ... it appears to me that she’s the ultimate narcissist, believing that she’s the only one in the world that matters, she’s the only one in the world that knows anything, even though she’s more ignorant than dirt ...
” I’d like to see her eat corn on the cob”
with choppers like hers, a corn cob stands zero chance ... she’s have the kernels gnawed off in just a few seconds ...
Sadly I agree. President Trump can't do everything. He is (with few exceptions) getting NO HELP from the feckless worms in congress, in either promoting his agenda, or explaining the value of our system of government in general, as oposed to Marxism.
IMHO-It is just tragic that this avowed Socialist was elected to hold any office in our beloved Capitalist U.S.A. This is NOT a good sign for our future.
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...This woman is a loud mouthed idiot who will get rich for essentially promising some people other people’s money....
Wow!!! I have never seen a dog eat corn....
Wrong end of horse!
She’ll wind up dead. They will Fort Marcy Park her.
Even though they are not the same exact person, they both do come of as genuine and real. Something 99% of the democrat and even the republican party can not accomplish.
I am not saying she IS President Trump, she isn’t.
Shes- acompl te MORON
yup.. she’ll be gone in 2020 if she doesn’t shut up and start pulling the party line..
They will primary her right out.
“I’m not locked up in here with YOU.”
If she keeps this up, Nancy will have her
locked up in a closet, all by herself.
Yeah but, Rorschach died in the end.
Horribly,
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