Ocasio-Cortez and freshman allies amass power, creating problems for Pelosi and party

Fox News ^ | March 12, 2019 | Judson Berger, Chad Pergram

[jazusamo]

Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Twitter bio declares her the “Unbossed Congresswoman” for Michigan’s 13th District.

While the moniker has roots in Shirley Chisholm’s successful campaign to become the first black congresswoman, nowadays it also could be seen as a blunt message to Democratic leadership: Nobody is bossing around the class of 2019.

And that’s a problem for party bosses.

On everything from the Green New Deal to impeachment to criticism of Israel, a squad of first-year congresswomen are flexing their muscle and posing an implicit challenge to Democratic honchos like Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Their stridently liberal agenda – and power to steer the national conversation via social media and press attention – has fueled tensions inside the party tent that in turn are testing leadership's control while stirring political concerns going into 2020.

“All of our problems are caused by three people,” one senior House Democrat lamented to Fox News.

That would be New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Tlaib – all freshmen, and all uniquely unencumbered by things like decorum or deference to party elders.

Ocasio-Cortez recently made waves by appearing to warn Democrats who vote with Republicans that they’re “putting themselves on a list” of possible primary targets (though she later denied she intended such a threat).

Tlaib famously made headlines upon taking office by vowing they’d “impeach the motherf---er,” in reference to President Trump. Pelosi this week tried to rein in the impeachment chatter, taking a firm public stance against that route. Yet in the immediate aftermath of Tlaib’s vow, Pelosi downplayed the hubbub, saying she wouldn’t use that language but it’s nothing worse than Trump has said.

Fast-forward to this month, and Pelosi faced another discipline problem – concerning Omar.

[jazusamo]

Cat fight and hopefully the entire Dem party will be the losers.

[CatOwner]

Problems? All I see is mostly the DEMs running the country.

[Red Badger]

They have about 100 of their party behind them, enough to give Pelosi a huge problem keeping them in line.......................

[JamesP81]

They have lost control of the monster they created. It’s off the leash.

[jdsteel]

Not true. Mohammed and his teachings are her boss.

[rktman]

👺. "Aunt-teefuh" goes to Washington.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s the Story of the Year. How two young political newbies with just a couple of months on the job can step in and undermine Pelosi and the entire existing Democrat power structure.

[tflabo]

All hail the moron, big mouthed, trash, 3rd world drecks, arrogant congress so-called women. If these become the future influential ‘leaders’ of America this nation will deserve its fate which won’t be pretty.

[Captain Peter Blood]

They haven’t amassed any power, real power that is. All they have done is become the true face of the party and exposed it as the Leftists/Socialists they really are.

Power, real Power is something you take, and they haven’t taken anything yet.

[PLD]

It is pretty sad when three thugs can hold the democrats hostage..If those three morons can cause all this trouble just think what could happen if a person with a brain cell could go after them..Try it republicans and see..It is time for us to take care of these Jew haters..I PRAY TO GOD HE GIVES US THE STRENGTH TO GO AFTER THESE THREE MORONS AND SHOW THE WORLD WHAT IDIOTS THEY ARE..

[Vaduz]

That party has been dead so long even the maggots are fighting. with each other.

[jazusamo]

MAGA!

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[Alberta's Child]

"All of our problems are caused by three people," one senior House Democrat lamented to Fox News.

There are probably 40 or more House Democrats representing districts Trump won in 2016. This isn't a case of three freshman dingbats against Nancy Pelosi ... it's a case of three morons crapping in the pool where these 40 Democrats swim, too.

[a little elbow grease]

"That party has been dead so long even the maggots are fighting. with each other."

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Maybe they can persuade Paul Ryan to run for President for them. He screwed the Republicans better than they ever could.

[Vaduz]

He sound like he’s already on their side maybe he will.

[jmacusa]

I called them “The New Red Guard’’. The Democrat Party created this monster and now the old fools like Pelosi and Schumer realize they can't control this thing and it's going to sweep them aside. The irony of this is just staggering and never in my lifetime would I have thought I'd see history, a very troubling history being repeated.

In 1932 in Germany the unpopular Weimar Republic was under siege by the right and the left. While the economy of Germany then was in free fall, it's different in 2019 America. But what the parallel is that a new movement and a new face was on the scene, Hitler and the Nazis. And two wily old power brokers, Hans Frick and Franz Von Papen bought this new, loud mouthed upstart into the halls of power, convincing a tired and doddering old fool from a bygone era, Field Marshall Paul Von Hindenburg that Hitler was the right man to save Germany and that they could control him. Never in history had there been a greater miscalculation. Well, AOC is the new fresh face and Pelosi and Schumer thought they could control her. It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. I hope the nation can survive it.

[jazusamo]

Good point.

Between the three radicals that have no intentions of shutting up with other radical Rats supporting them, Pelosi and Schumer are in trouble and they know it.

[jmacusa]

Thanks to the damage the Democrat Party has done to the nation and the culture of aggressive entitlement and personal irresponsibility that Obama created if AOC were old enough she’d be the Democrat candidate for 2020 and she’d beat Trump in a landslide. There was a movie made in the 1960’s called “Wild In The Streets’’. Check it out.

[SunkenCiv]

Well, that got kinda big. Thanks jazusamo.

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[blueplum]

the other story developing, how fast the Dems mobilized to primary those threatening to primary them, putting these three in the category of shortest-serving