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Two years ago at this time, she was bartending and waitressing in New York. Now the New York congresswoman is the face of the liberal left in the Democratic Party nationally.
When a politician -- or, really, anyone -- becomes a star overnight, there's an inevitable backlash that grows Washington (CNN)There's no politician -- not one -- who has risen further faster than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Two years ago at this time, she was bartending and waitressing in New York. Now the New York congresswoman is the face of the liberal left in the Democratic Party nationally.
When a politician -- or, really, anyone -- becomes a star overnight, there's an inevitable backlash that grows in opposition to the rise.opposition to the rise. And less than three months into her first term in Congress, the AOC backlash has begun in earnest.
The spark came last week when, in a closed-door meeting of House Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez warned colleagues that if they continued to vote with Republicans on procedural motions in the chamber they could wind up "on a list" of incumbents ripe for a liberal primary challenge. (Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has found herself on the other side of AOC a few times during the early months of this Congress, was making the same case to members.)
I cannot overstate how much I support Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. The more attention she garners and power she attempts to grab, the better it will be for Republicans in general and Pres. Donald Trump in particular.
ReplyDeleteModerate, centrist democrats will wake up to the horror that the Left wing of the party wants to visit on America. Yeee-HAA...bring on the progressives!
“The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backlash begins”
ReplyDeleteBacklash = a strong and adverse reaction by a large number of people, especially to a social or political development. "a public backlash against racism" synonyms: adverse reaction/response, counteraction, counterblast, comeback
See https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2019/03/05/democrats-impeachment-clock-is-ticking/?guid=BL-WB-69904&dsk=y
“The central risk for the party in committing to an impeachment process is the potential backlash from Mr. Trump and Republican voters. An impeachment inquiry perceived as partisan could provide the president a potent political foil in his re-election effort.”
meaning Trump supporters will go against their best interests if they perceive that Trump is in danger of being held accountable to the laws of his own country
ReplyDeleteCNN defends Ocasio-Cortez, so politely: “The spark came last week when, in a closed-door meeting of House Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez warned colleagues that if they continued to vote with Republicans on procedural motions in the chamber they could wind up "on a list" of incumbents ripe for a liberal primary challenge.”
ReplyDeleteSee http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/23544
“Attorney Scott W. Johnson did the digging and found that, “A Sept. 2015 report from a House Homeland Security task force revealed that Minnesota led all states in contributing foreign fighters to ISIS.” Well, hello. Tells you something about Ilhan Omar and where she’s coming from…and where she’s going in our Congress. Or to put it another way – what is that person, a likely ISIS operative, doing in our Congress? Other than to bully the Jews, I don’t know, as she tag-teams together with that other bargain, “Dearbornistan’s” Rashida Tlaib. That’s another movie that won’t get done for reasons known to “Mogadishu, Minnesota.” Assuming that all are good Americans, how did those two escape the nest to become a stain on our country? Their values are not our values…and they won’t shut up. Anti-Semitism used to be shameful, here in America. When did it become popular…and so fast…and mostly from just these two twerps, Omar/Tlaib. Hardly anyone from among the Democrats offers a word of rebuke. Back home in the old country they’d be horse-whipped for speaking out of turn. But here, they get to hold press conferences. (Don’t miss out on this thriller for all that.) Their words are respectfully printed and aired and hardly anyone from among the Democrats offers a word of rebuke. That is finally, reluctantly, changing. They’re in a panic. Pelosi and some other Dems are initiating a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. Too late. The poison has spread. “You Give Us A Bad Rep.” runs the front page banner in the newsstand edition of The New York Post regarding Omar. Speaking of bad Reps…New York’s Ocasio-Cortez, the chatterbox babe in wonderland, has come out to defend Omar, and that makes three witches over the same anti-Semitic brew. As meanwhile, two Jewish Congressmen, Schiff and Nadler, remain silent and afraid. (Engel has spoken up, but without heat.) They are too busy with committee hearings intended to derail and destroy Trump, while ignoring the more immediate clear and present danger – anti-Semitism getting out of hand.”
CNN is horrible. God bless Trump, Netanyahu and America and Israel.