Ocasio-Cortez tweets and other news

the problem is that she's taken EVERY single last eco-left bad idea of the last 40 years and put them into one big package where they can all be shot down at once. There's no there, there. It's just vapid generalizations about "saving the planet" and "helping the people" . . . there's zero percent chance that there's anything whatsoever that's going to come out of a so-called GND that's going to pass. It's polarizing right from the get-go and the sad part is that it is INTENTIONALLY polarizing. Why do you think Nancy Pelosi can sneeringly dismiss the GND as the Green Whatever?

the whole thing is a joke. And that's sad. Adults who ought to know better do themselves a disservice by signing on to it. And that's why none of this year's version of the Seven Dwarfs among the Democratic candidates for President are going to get anywhere. Because they simply chant "yeah yeah yeah I'm for that."

Which is why Klobuchar has a chance of outlasting them all.

 

you could be right about that

 

except she may really be a moron. and there's a lot of smart people in NYC for the DNC to choose from

 

the flipside of that is that she becomes the butt of absolutely EVERY joke . . . in contexts that have absolutely nothing to do with her, her ideas, or her service in the House.

here's an example of what I'm talking about. This mockery cannot be a good thing, regardless of which side you sit on (the two tweets get separated in the conversation, so I include the original tweet):

 

apparently AOC doesn't take the weekends off

 

here's an example of how AOC and other new Reps are hurting their fellow Democrats. If a small number of radical and politically naive Reps can impact and possibly hurt a larger number of more moderate and experienced Reps, do you really think the DNC is not going to do the math and see that smaller number of harmful Reps as expendable?

In Conservative Districts, Democrats Have to Answer for Party’s Left Wing
By Catie Edmondson and Emily Cochrane
Feb. 24, 2019

NEPHI, Utah — In the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Representative Ben McAdams, a freshman, was grilled by constituents about the “socialism” and “anti-Semitism” that they saw coming out of the new Democratic House.

“How long do you intend to ride that train with those people?” one Utahan asked.

In Michigan, Representative Haley Stevens was asked about her ability to counter what one voter deemed the bigotry of some of her freshman colleagues — a concern fueled partly by remarks from her counterpart in nearby Detroit, Rashida Tlaib — and “the negative attitude they bring to Democrats.”

And on a rainy Saturday in Spotsylvania County, Va., one woman stood up in a town hall to remind Representative Abigail Spanberger that while she was the first Democrat to hold that seat in nearly 50 years, the majority of the rural enclave had voted Republican.

“Since the Democrats are now the party of death and taxes,” the woman said, as Democratic supporters scoffed and grumbled, “just how do you propose to effectively represent the taxpayers of Spotsylvania?”

Congress’s freshman class, roughly a third prevailed in districts where President Trump won in 2016.

That serves as another indication that Democrats will have to confront the intraparty tussle between liberals and moderates to decide what they stand for, whom they appeal to and where their electoral future lies.

Last week, home for the first district workweek of their term, moderate Democrats got to see firsthand how the raised voices of a small but vocal number of lawmakers such as Representatives Tlaib, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York are reverberating in far more marginal districts. Some, like Representative Andy Kim of New Jersey, were asked to account for the “uptick of negative rhetoric” coming from the freshman class.

“My job is to focus in on you. I don’t know how other members of Congress are making their decisions about what to say,” Mr. Kim told constituents in the coastal township of Berkeley, “but I’ll certainly stand up and disagree whenever there is something out there I disagree with.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/us/politics/house-democrats-moderates-liberals.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

"The more serious risk to backing away from the Midwest, Democrats here and elsewhere say, is that the party could endanger its newly won House majority and all but concede a long-term Republican majority in the Senate by not plowing top-of-the-ticket resources across the Great Lakes region.

“'If you can’t make the case to — and you don’t show up for — rural voters, you’re never going to have the Senate, so you’re never going to be able to govern,' said the former agriculture secretary and Iowa governor Tom Vilsack.

". . . Mr. Brown was just as quick to point out that no Republican has ever won the presidency without carrying Ohio, and he offered what amounts to a chilling reminder to Democrats when asked about the wisdom of downplaying the Midwest.

“'I don’t want to wake up the day after the election in 2020 and win the popular vote by 4.5 million and lose the Electoral College,' he said."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/us/politics/democrats-2020-midwest-voters.html