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House Democrats Don't Know What to Make of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostYep. Just like they tend to be better at getting everyone on-board to vote in favor of something when they have a narrow majority.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostThis is something the Democrats have historically, IMOHBAO, done MUCH better than Republicans.
Originally posted by Sparko View PostI think the older democrats will muzzle her pretty soon. Or she will find herself without any support or votes. She doesn't know how the game is played yet.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostIt's one of the things that makes me so mad at the Republican Party.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostExasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez
The effort is part carrot, part stick. But it's far from clear the anti-establishment political novice can be made to play ball.
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.
“She needs to decide: Does she want to be an effective legislator or just continue being a Twitter star?” said one House Democrat who’s in lockstep with Ocasio Cortez’s ideology. “There’s a difference between being an activist and a lawmaker in Congress.”
It’s an open question whether Ocasio-Cortez can be checked. She’s barely been in Congress a week and is better known than almost any other House member other than Nancy Pelosi and John Lewis. A media throng follows her every move, and she can command a national audience practically at will.
None of that came playing by the usual rules: Indeed, Ocasio-Cortez’s willingness to take on her party establishment with unconventional guerrilla tactics is what got her here. It’s earned her icon status on the progressive left, it’s where the 29-year-old freshman derives her power — and, by every indication, it’s how she thinks she can pull the Democratic Party in her direction.
The Freedom Caucus didn’t win many popularity contests in Congress the past four years, but it’s hard to dispute the hard-liners’ success dragging the GOP to the right.
Still, fellow Democrats are giving it their best, or planning to in the near future.
So far, most of them have kept their criticism of Ocasio-Cortez private, fearful she’ll sic her massive following on them by firing off a tweet. But a few are engaging with her in the hopes she’ll opt for a different M.O., especially when it comes to trying to take out Democrats in primaries.
more at:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...isment-1093728
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"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostYeah they talk a big game but when it comes down to the wire, they never agree long enough to do anything. They sat on their butts and did nothing about healthcare after years of complaining. And they had two years to do the border wall and did nothing and now congress is holding the country hostage.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the voice of an ignorant generation
The majority of American Millennials identify as socialist, according to surveys by both Reason-Rupe and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. That’s the bad news. The good news is that just 32 percent of Millennials can define socialism. The frequently-wrong but never-in-doubt freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., may indeed be the voice of her ignorant generation.
During an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Anderson Cooper asked Ocasio-Cortez, “When people hear the word socialism, they think Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela. Is that what you have in mind?” He neglected to mention the vicious socialist regimes of Cambodia, Ethiopia, Poland, Romania, North Korea, and China, among others.
Ocasio-Cortez retorted, “Of course not. What we have in mind—and what of my—and my policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden.” In fact, her economic proposals bear little resemblance to British and Nordic public policy.
Maybe somebody should start a thread on "what is socilaism"!
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostYeah they talk a big game but when it comes down to the wire, they never agree long enough to do anything. They sat on their butts and did nothing about healthcare after years of complaining. And they had two years to do the border wall and did nothing and now congress is holding the country hostage.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostWrt the bolded part virtually every candidate she endorsed in 2018 lost with very few even making it past the primaries.Last edited by Mountain Man; 01-14-2019, 02:39 PM.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by seer View Post
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...dancing-video/Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostFunny thing about that video, the liberal media tried to gin up controversy, breathlessly reporting how conservatives were outraged by the video but found few if any examples of outraged conservatives to include in their stories.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...dancing-video/Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostFunny thing about that video, the liberal media tried to gin up controversy, breathlessly reporting how conservatives were outraged by the video but found few if any examples of outraged conservatives to include in their stories.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...dancing-video/
But what do you expect from a rag that rivals CNN for fabricating fake news (like the stories that Poland's First Lady refused to shake Trump's hand when they met or that Trump screwed up coloring an American flag while visiting a children's hospital)?
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostJason Le Miere at Newsweek, the once relevant but now floundering weekly news magazine, tried to create a controversy by claiming that conservatives were somehow outraged over the video but in reality many conservatives were actually defending it and asking what all the hubbub was over. The answer of course was just more "fake news" since the only critic anyone could find was some really obscure Twitter account that has since vanished. This was of coursed picked up and repeated by the media like CNN and ABC pundit Ana Navarro who called the non-existent conservative negative reaction "stupid" and Bill Press who indignantly fumed how Republicans were making a "big deal" of it without citing a single example.
But what do you expect from a rag that rivals CNN for fabricating fake news (like the stories that Poland's First Lady refused to shake Trump's hand when they met or that Trump screwed up coloring an American flag while visiting a children's hospital)?Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostI think leftist nancy boys would have more of a problem with her feminine wiles...
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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