Posted on 04/02/2019 5:48:55 PM PDT by SJackson
House Reps. Liz Cheney and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clashed on Twitter over each other's understanding of the Constitution.
Cheney, R-Wyo., took issue with a comment Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., made during a recent MSNBC town hall event in which the freshman congresswoman talked about Democrats being in control of Congress in the 1930s and 1940s.
“When our party was boldest, the time of the New Deal, the Great Society, the Civil Rights Act and so on, we had, and carried, supermajorities in the House, in the Senate. We carried the presidency,” she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.
“They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure (President Franklin D.) Roosevelt did not get reelected,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
In response to Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks, Cheney tweeted: “We knew the Democrats let dead people vote. According to AOC, they can run for president too.”
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I resent that remark! I was MUCH more intelligent than AOC when I was a 12-year-old schoolgirl! I also had the sense to look things up before running my mouth. (That was without the benefit of the internet; I was well-versed in the use of World Book, Encyclopedia Brittanica, and other reference materials.)
I’d be willing to bet that most of the other women here on FR could say the same thing.
Im sure Liz is talking without any help
Yes she apparently really is that ignorant...
Two different time periods, FDR and LBJ, about 20 years apart. She made it sound as if it she thought it was all the same time period.
Term limits for the President amendment (22nd? I forget) was passed in 1947, ratified in 1951. FDR died in 1945.
Civil Rights Act - Democrats filibustered and voted against every civil rights act to come along for 100 years, including LBJ, Republicans finally managed to push through the one he signed, and he didn’t want to do that. He realized he would have a civil war on his hands if he tried too veto, and someone convinced him it would buy the black vote for Democrats. LBJ was the biggest racist in DC at the time...
I bet she thinks Democrats gave women the right to vote too...NOT...filibustered and voted against it for 20 years...
AOC has no idea who or what she is referring to...I really think I could have a more intelligent discussion with a can opener...
Sandy “Hernando” Cortez!
The 22nd amendment started with the Hoover commission report that was created by Truman (not a republican). I suspect that Roosevelt’s disastrous performance at Yalta had something to do with it, too. The cold war was in high gear then, because of that. The Berlin airlift was in 1948.
Truman became president after Roosevelt’s death and found out only then we had a Manhattan project because he was kept in the dark by his boss, the indispensable man.
It was widely popular, even with Democrats, as can be seen by the fact it was ratified in less than 3 years.
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