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AOC Says Government Shutdown 'Gives Us a Lot More Time to Make Trouble'
www.cnsnews.com ^ | January 22, 2019 | 5:25 AM EST | By Susan Jones

Posted on 01/22/2019 2:02:21 PM PST by Red Badger

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) returned to "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert Monday night, explaining how the partial government shutdown has affected her personally. "It gives us a lot more free time to make trouble," she said.

"Your first day in Congress -- government's shut down. What the -- what heck is that like?" Colbert asked her, as they ate ice cream together.

"I mean, basically, it's like -- well, what I will say is that there are a lot of things we can't do as freshman members. We have almost -- around 100 new members of both parties that are coming to Congress, and we can't properly set up our district offices, we can't get laptops delivered, we can't start doing the work that we're elected to do."

"It takes the green stuff," Colbert interjected.

"Yeah, and those workers are furloughed," Ocasio-Cortez said. "So the down side is that we're not able to get to work as much as we want to in the beginning, but the bright side is that it gives us a lot more free time to make trouble."

(The audience laughed and cheered.)

"Because, you know what they say, idle hands are the devil's legislative agenda," Colbert joked.

"That is right. That is exactly correct," Ocasio-Cortez said.

Ocasio Cortez then discussed some of her recent trouble-making. She said she wanted to "find the person responsible" for the partial government funding lapse -- whom she identified as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, because he refuses to bring up spending bills that President Trump won't sign.

"It's literally just Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell versus the rest of the world," she told Colbert. Ocasio-Cortez and some other freshman Democrats wrote McConnell a letter last week, and they decided to deliver it personally.

"So we're like, we're going to find him," Ocasio-Cortez told Colbert.

"And so we went to his Capitol Hill office, his Senate Majority Leader office, he wasn't there. Then we said, well, let's go everywhere he could possibly be. So we went to the cloak room, which is kind of like a snack room for the Republicans. (Laughter)

"We went to the Senate floor, and Senator Jeff Merkley submitted our letter to the Senate floor. And it was actually, some of the incumbents are saying this is the first time they remember House members going to the Senate floor since about 1992 for the Anita Hill hearings was the last time some of them recall that happening.

"And then we went to his constituent office in the Russell Building, we took the little, like, train that they have...And that's where we started the hashtag #where's Mitch, because where is he?" (Applause)

According to press reports -- this one from Fox News -- "The stunt – dubbed #WheresMitch on social media -- came to an unceremonious and anti-climactic end after the pack first went to the wrong office of McConnell, then delivered the letter to his chief of staff, and ultimately declined to stake out the Senate floor."

Colbert asked the congresswoman if she considered going to the Senate floor and yelling, "Olly, olly, oxen free?"

"That's my plan when I go back," she smiled.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr
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1 posted on 01/22/2019 2:02:21 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

congress is a joke to this fool


2 posted on 01/22/2019 2:04:20 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

[ “but the bright side is that it gives us a lot more free time to make trouble.” ]

Oh yeah, this is gonna end well for the Democrats.

Just wait until Nancy and Hillary arrange for her tragic, unexpected demise.

Maybe a few of them will finally understand what happened to Seth Rich. A few of them, anyways.


3 posted on 01/22/2019 2:04:37 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Idiot talking to a bigger idiot you decide which one is which.


4 posted on 01/22/2019 2:07:15 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SaveFerris
Just wait until Nancy and Hillary arrange for her tragic, unexpected demise.

Hey AOC, have you ever see Ft Marcy Park at night?

5 posted on 01/22/2019 2:07:42 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Red Badger

several little Sheits like her and the Muslim terrorista/enablers .... got elected this time, it is so sad to see the Republic being rotted out from within like this


6 posted on 01/22/2019 2:11:59 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Red Badger
'Ya can't think about this long enough....68 combined years to 2 years by this POTUS who has done more in that time than Pelosi and Schumer combined; that they, Pelosi & Schumer, can talk about.......


7 posted on 01/22/2019 2:12:46 PM PST by yoe (This "war" between USA parties is about the Constitution. Capitolism and Marxism.)
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To: Red Badger
Representative Ringworm raising hell.


8 posted on 01/22/2019 2:13:25 PM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Red Badger

This woman is so incorrigibly stupid, that we owe an apology to all blondes. She has negated every “dumb blonde” joke ever told.


9 posted on 01/22/2019 2:14:44 PM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: Red Badger

Some One needs to walk up to this girlie women and bang a drum in her face.


10 posted on 01/22/2019 2:15:17 PM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Neither are they pro American.)
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To: Red Badger

The Dems may Arkancide her and set up a MAGA hat wearing patsy as the shooter.


11 posted on 01/22/2019 2:15:51 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: Red Badger

Stay away from Fort Marcy Park!


12 posted on 01/22/2019 2:16:18 PM PST by dan on the right
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To: Magnum44

Something will happen. They can’t let this bobble-head go on forever.

Try to comprehend an excerpt from her. Yes, I’m joking but check how scatterbrained she is (not that this is a revelation):

https://news.grabien.com/story-ocasio-cortez-millennials-were-world-going-end-12-years-if-w

“And I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. You’re biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our World War II. And I think for younger people looking at this are more like, how are we saying let’s take it easy when 3,000 Americans died last year, how are we saying let’s take it easy when the end person died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system?

How are we saying take it easy, the America that we’re living in today is dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without healthcare and we’re told to settle down. It’s a fundamental separation between that fierce urgency of now, the why we can’t wait that King spoke of. That at some point this chronic reality do reach a breaking point and I think for our generation it reached that, I wished I didn’t have to be doing every post, but sometimes I just feel like people aren’t being held accountable. Until, we start pitching in and holding people accountable, I’m just gonna let them have it.”


The Democrats will use her for awhile. Then Team Hillary, from behind the scenes, will decide she’s outlived her usefulness.


13 posted on 01/22/2019 2:16:31 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

The moron behaves as though she is still roaming her old high school halls.


14 posted on 01/22/2019 2:16:52 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: gibsonguy

It’s show for idiots, that’s for sure.


15 posted on 01/22/2019 2:17:10 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: butlerweave

Congress is a joke to me, too, so at least that twit and I have one thing in common.


16 posted on 01/22/2019 2:17:41 PM PST by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: Red Badger

don’t underestimate this woman. there are millions of people who fawn all over everything she says and does. stephen colbert is one of them.


17 posted on 01/22/2019 2:19:54 PM PST by 1956tbyrd
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To: butlerweave

“congress is a joke to this fool”

Congress, and government, is a joke, unfortunately.


18 posted on 01/22/2019 2:21:00 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Wilderness Conservative; SkyPilot; null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis

[The Dems may Arkancide her and set up a MAGA hat wearing patsy as the shooter.]

Probably so. Nothing would surprise me at this point.

They just have to find their patsy willing to take the fall for some offshore cash for his or her family.


19 posted on 01/22/2019 2:21:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

It must drive Pelosi crazy to see this freshman congresswoman elevated to the most popular, most fawned-over, most talked-about Democrat in the country today.


20 posted on 01/22/2019 2:22:44 PM PST by Drew68 (Eating hamberders, drinking covfefe. MAGA!)
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