Loopy will learn what happens when you go against the grain in the Swamp.
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New Broom would like to sweep clean!
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Millennial Idiot.
Mill-idiot.
Mmmhmm..
Mill-idiot.
Mmmhmm..
Yep. Pelosi will eat that shave tail for breakfast and not even give it two hoots in hell. As the kids like to say, the smackdown will be epic.
Ocasio-Cortez backs campaigns to replace Dem incumbents with progressives
BY JOHN BOWDEN - 11/17/18 10:28 PM EST
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...s-to-replace-dem-incumbents-with-progressives
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), implored more than 700 attendees of a Justice Democrats strategy call to run for office against incumbent Democrats as well as Republicans in their home districts.
During the video call with supporters Saturday evening, Ocasio-Cortez remarked that her own journey to the House began on the other end of a Justice Democrats strategy call while calling on supporters to mount similar bids in their own districts around the country.
"Long story short, I need you to run for office," she said on the call. "All I’m asking you to do is throw your hat in the ring, say 'what the heck.' ”
Ocasio-Cortez was elected Tuesday after running a successful primary against Rep. Joseph Crowley, who was House Democratic Caucus Chairman.
The incoming lawmaker added that she and other members of the Justice Democrats, a group of progressives seeking to shift the Democratic Party left, would support challenges to incumbent Democrats they view as insufficiently aligned with the views of progressives in the party, particularly on the issue of corporate campaign donations.
"All Americans know money in politics is a huge problem, but unfortunately the way that we fix it is by demanding that our incumbents give it up or by running fierce campaigns ourselves," she said.
“I don't think people who are taking money from pharmaceutical companies should be drafting health-care legislation. I don't think people who are taking money from oil and gas companies should be drafting climate legislation,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez made headlines this week when a reporter from the Washington Examiner, a right-leaning newspaper, appeared to question her claims of financial struggles in a tweet stating that her "jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles."
"If I walked into Congress wearing a sack, they would laugh & take a picture of my backside," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response. "If I walk in with my best sale-rack clothes, they laugh & take a picture of my backside."
"Dark hates light - that’s why you tune it out. Shine bright & keep it pushing."
BY JOHN BOWDEN - 11/17/18 10:28 PM EST
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...s-to-replace-dem-incumbents-with-progressives
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), implored more than 700 attendees of a Justice Democrats strategy call to run for office against incumbent Democrats as well as Republicans in their home districts.
During the video call with supporters Saturday evening, Ocasio-Cortez remarked that her own journey to the House began on the other end of a Justice Democrats strategy call while calling on supporters to mount similar bids in their own districts around the country.
"Long story short, I need you to run for office," she said on the call. "All I’m asking you to do is throw your hat in the ring, say 'what the heck.' ”
Ocasio-Cortez was elected Tuesday after running a successful primary against Rep. Joseph Crowley, who was House Democratic Caucus Chairman.
The incoming lawmaker added that she and other members of the Justice Democrats, a group of progressives seeking to shift the Democratic Party left, would support challenges to incumbent Democrats they view as insufficiently aligned with the views of progressives in the party, particularly on the issue of corporate campaign donations.
"All Americans know money in politics is a huge problem, but unfortunately the way that we fix it is by demanding that our incumbents give it up or by running fierce campaigns ourselves," she said.
“I don't think people who are taking money from pharmaceutical companies should be drafting health-care legislation. I don't think people who are taking money from oil and gas companies should be drafting climate legislation,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez made headlines this week when a reporter from the Washington Examiner, a right-leaning newspaper, appeared to question her claims of financial struggles in a tweet stating that her "jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles."
"If I walked into Congress wearing a sack, they would laugh & take a picture of my backside," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response. "If I walk in with my best sale-rack clothes, they laugh & take a picture of my backside."
"Dark hates light - that’s why you tune it out. Shine bright & keep it pushing."
Another good article:
November 18, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez to back effort to primary fellow Democrats
By Rick Moran
A
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo..._back_effort_tp_primary_fellow_democrats.html
Newly-elected Congressman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is saying that she will back an effort by a new Democratic party organization, Justice Democrats, to make the party more liberal and "diverse."
That means that some Democratic congressmen who don't back the Justice Democrat agenda will be challenged in the primary.
Politico:
It's an interesting concept; "saving" the country by destroying it.
Ocasio-Cortez will find out the hard way what happens to freshmen members who start trying to throw their weight around. More senior Democrats are very likely to slap her down right quick. Indeed, a frosh member threatening to primary incumbents might very well find herself - and her Justice Democrats - on the outside looking in.
Any legislation she and her fellow rebels want to have considered by the new Democratic majority will somehow get lost on the way to the floor. In fact, it might not even make it to committee. There's a way things work on the Hill and, while the occassional new member makes a splash, they almost always operate within the context of party rules. And rule #1 is don't step out of line by threatening long time members.
Is she naive or just stupid? Given many of her past statements on the issues, I would believe the latter rather than the former.
November 18, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez to back effort to primary fellow Democrats
By Rick Moran
A
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo..._back_effort_tp_primary_fellow_democrats.html
Newly-elected Congressman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is saying that she will back an effort by a new Democratic party organization, Justice Democrats, to make the party more liberal and "diverse."
That means that some Democratic congressmen who don't back the Justice Democrat agenda will be challenged in the primary.
Politico:
It's an interesting concept; "saving" the country by destroying it.
Ocasio-Cortez will find out the hard way what happens to freshmen members who start trying to throw their weight around. More senior Democrats are very likely to slap her down right quick. Indeed, a frosh member threatening to primary incumbents might very well find herself - and her Justice Democrats - on the outside looking in.
Any legislation she and her fellow rebels want to have considered by the new Democratic majority will somehow get lost on the way to the floor. In fact, it might not even make it to committee. There's a way things work on the Hill and, while the occassional new member makes a splash, they almost always operate within the context of party rules. And rule #1 is don't step out of line by threatening long time members.
Is she naive or just stupid? Given many of her past statements on the issues, I would believe the latter rather than the former.
I wonder who takes care of, and feeds, her unicorn, now that she is in D.C.?
I wonder who takes care of, and feeds, her unicorn, now that she is in D.C.?
The magical, wonderfully delightful rainbow fairies!