Posted on 03/01/2019 12:57:49 PM PST by Red Badger
After more than two dozen moderate Democrats broke from their party's progressive wing and sided with Republicans on a legislative amendment Wednesday, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly sounded the alarm in a closed-door meeting Thursday and said those Democrats were "putting themselves on a list."
The legislation that prompted the infighting was a bill that would expand federal background checks for gun purchases, the Washington Post reported. But a key provision requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be notified if illegal immigrants attempt to purchase guns saw 26 moderate Democrats side with Republicans.
According to the Post, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded her wayward center-leaning colleagues, telling them: "We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision.”
But Ocasio-Cortez reportedly took it a step further. She said she would help progressive activists unseat those moderates in their districts in the 2020 elections, the report said. Her spokesman Corbin Trent told the paper that she made the "list" comment during the meeting.
“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them,” Trent said, referring to ICE.
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Hey, if socialists do not keep an iron discipline upon their own allies, soon nobody will be left standing with them.
People always said that the National Socialism as practiced in Germany between 1933 and 1945 was historically a very bad thing, which was an excellent conclusion. But interestingly, they blamed the nationalism, not the socialism, which was the real mischief-maker in the doctrines of National Socialism.
Socialism cannot thrive on its own. Somewhere, sometime, the poor victims of this travesty of human “sharing” and “equality” either must be allowed to express their inner talents and be also given the opportunity to gain advantage for the profitable aspects of using that talent to the fullest extent (which means the right to ownership and the “pursuit of happiness”), or have the incentives and gains from that talent stripped away from them, resulting in a total loss of initiative and a certain “equality” in the status of poverty.
Capitalism is the engine that makes the distribution of social benefits even possible. Incentive comes from the willingness to harness initiative, and REWARD that initiative with profitable outcomes for the innovator.
Pragmatically, this is the most positive unleashing of human resources the world has ever known.
Yep. Nothing is stronger than the instinct of self-preservation. She’s gonna get Fort Marcy Parked by one of her own fellow nestlings........LOL
Beginning of a fracture between old style Moynihan type Libs and the nutburger AOC far left Progressive wing of the Democrat party? We shall see.
“Good, this just makes a Rep HOR all the more assured next year.”
Agreed.
A number of these so-called moderate Dem congressmembers will start feeling the heat from the Left in their districts and will start voting accordingly - in spite of their campaign “promises” to be reasonable and bipartisan.
That will leave a number of them vulnerable in 2020. They’ll appease the Dem base but alienate the Independents and even the GOPe voters who put ‘em into the office in the first place.
East river is nice this time of year..
It’s great that this little moron is cracking the whip on her own side so that people in her party KNOW what ideo-scumbags Democrats are.
Don’t bet on it.....................She is the future of the Democrat Party....................She’s ‘The Boss’ (her own words).......................
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That’s for sure. But in a few years she will be considered a moderate.
The media created this bartending monster and the Dems lapped it up. It’s not going as planned for them.
I really believe @AOC is God’s gift to Republicans.
I figured she’d be Pelosi’s gavel carrier.
Instead she’s a total loose cannon.
Poor Nancy waited 8 years to get that gavel back...now the Puerto Rican Princess gets all the attention.
Fracture?
It’s an all out purge that’s going to happen.
After 2020, there will be no moderates in the (D) party and only far left ideologues will be in it. The old guard, Pelosi, et al, will be swept away and they will choose a new leader, who’s already calling herself, “The Boss”..................
Boss of the “baccahous”
Evita Jr.
From the Mikado:
The Judicial humorist — I’ve got him on the list!
All funny fellows, comic men, and clowns of private life —
They’d none of ‘em be missed — they’d none of ‘em be missed
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind
Such as — What d’ye call him — Thing’em-bob, and likewise — Never-mind
And ‘St— ‘st— ‘st— and What’s-his-name, and also You-know-who —
The task of filling up the blanks I’d rather leave to you
But it really doesn’t matter whom you put upon the list
For they’d none of ‘em be missed — they’d none of ‘em be missed!
Lol, they need to have AOC’s testosterone levels tested. This gal is being driven by something that is creepy and hard to believe at times.
Keep it up, AOC.
A total airhead...with a cute set of Perkys.
She’s making a list,
And checking it twice!
Gonna find out,
Who’s naughty and nice!
AOC is coming to town!..................
I now see how ruthless dictators can murder millions within a blink of an eye. The horse face bint reminds me of a female Stalin with a fake Bronx accent.
She really is.
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