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Ocasio-Cortez flips out after congressman calls Green New Deal ‘elitist’
NY Post ^ | March 27, 2019 | By Ben Feuerherd

Posted on 03/27/2019 7:02:07 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got into a heated exchange with a GOP congressman from Wisconsin after he called the Green New Deal “elitist” during a committee hearing Monday.

Ocasio-Cortez invoked her experience as a waitress while mentioning the water in Flint, Michigan, and flooding in the Midwest after GOP Rep. Sean Duffy mocked her ambitious plan.

“People are dying. They are dying,” she exclaimed. “And the response across the other side of the aisle is to introduce an amendment five minutes before a hearing.”

During the Financial Services Committee hearing, Duffy introduced an amendment to a homelessness bill that would impose “green” standards on the measure.

Duffy introduced the amendment to vote against it — and spark debate about the legislation that Ocasio-Cortez has been championing.

“The Green New Deal is one that if you are a rich liberal from maybe New York or California, it sounds great because you can afford to retrofit your home or build a new home that has a zero emissions, that is energy-efficient, affordable and safe,” Duffy seethed during the hearing.

He added that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development did a study that found that to retrofit all their existing houses to meet the Green New Deal’s standards, it would cost up to $172 billion. see also Ocasio-Cortez slams Republicans as 'climate delayers' after Green New Deal defeat

“It’s outrageous. It’s absolutely outrageous,” Duffy said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Vermont; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; berniesanders; duffy; flint; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; meltdown; michigan; newyork; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr; seanduffy; tantrum; vermont; wisconsin
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To: ptsal

Yes, trying a Elizabeth Warren Old Indian Trick..............


61 posted on 03/27/2019 7:55:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: COBOL2Java

LOL!!!.........................


62 posted on 03/27/2019 7:55:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: raybbr
They never wanted a vote on this crazy idea. They wanted to have endless debate to demagogue, accuse, attack, propagandize and spew their hate.

That's what's got her all worked up. Faux outrage that someone DARED to force her Party to stand up and be counted for their insanity.

She flails her arms around better than Beto.

63 posted on 03/27/2019 7:56:05 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: COBOL2Java

In the beginning of the video she states “I just got health insurance for the first time a month ago.” Just curious if she paid the Individual Mandate Penalty for 2018, I think it applies?


64 posted on 03/27/2019 7:58:12 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: COUNTrecount
Ocasio-Cortez flips out

To flip out you have to be in.

65 posted on 03/27/2019 8:00:58 AM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

David Horowitz noted on a radio show this morning that the terms of the Green New Deal can only be implemented by a dictatorship as they are compulsory and not subject to refusal.


66 posted on 03/27/2019 8:01:59 AM PDT by Justa
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To: JusPasenThru

I don’t disagree with what you say, but the best response is to marginalize her by goading her into appearing unhinged and ranting, rather than “impassioned”, so that independents and others who are not already in the <13% hardcore liberal-socialist category won’t support her ideas.

To use an analogy, there’s little doubt that Alex Jones is impassioned and people who support him think he hits home runs all the time. But the left has succeeded in turning him into a pariah, pushing him so far into the margins that no one wants to even acknowledge he exists, much less support him. That’s the strategy to counter the AOC effect as well.


67 posted on 03/27/2019 8:03:04 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

I’d say that Obama made the rounds and “forced” them to vote “present”. Beside not even showing up when he was a Senator....I believe he voted “Present” 163 times. On important votes, he said he hit the wrong button.


68 posted on 03/27/2019 8:05:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Army Air Corps
In another country, in another system of government, she would be head of the Secret Police.

That's a terrifying thought......

69 posted on 03/27/2019 8:06:27 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Reminds me of Belushi in Animal House, sort of. Certainly just as psychotic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-xgd_eETE


70 posted on 03/27/2019 8:07:59 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: COBOL2Java
She flails her arms around better than Beto.

That is saying a lot! Let's see if she can do a kick flip, and a faceplant.
71 posted on 03/27/2019 8:12:26 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: COUNTrecount

A list of cliches in search of an idea.


72 posted on 03/27/2019 8:14:23 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: COUNTrecount

Alinsky told me there’d be days like this,
there’d be days like this Alinsky said.

——1961 sung by The Shirelles (adapted)


73 posted on 03/27/2019 8:14:49 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: COUNTrecount

but she’s in charge ,LOL


74 posted on 03/27/2019 8:17:36 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: COBOL2Java
She still sounds like an extra from West Side Story......................... With Michael Moore playing the part of Tony.

Great image to visualize. The extra wide theater stage requirement satisfied, Moore comes out belting the songs and splitting his pants as he tries to dance.

75 posted on 03/27/2019 8:17:57 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: JusPasenThru; RegulatorCountry
We think she’s ranting, but it was impassioned and sincere and anyone who hasn’t familiarized themselves with reality will think she hit a home run.

The dummies think she is the best thing to come down the pike ever.

They consider the media a right wing arm fo the republican party and that the democrat party has moves too far to the right in the last few decades, from where ti was in the 60's and 70's.

You don't need drugs to lose touch with reality. Just a trip over to dummyland.

And they clearly, really, honestly believe what they are saying.

76 posted on 03/27/2019 8:18:32 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Oh my she’ll need a case of Wine this weekend


77 posted on 03/27/2019 8:18:55 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RBW in PA

“Just curious if she paid the Individual Mandate Penalty for 2018, I think it applies?”

Well, she was probably on her parents’ health care until she was 26, so yeah that leaves a couple years where she would have had to pay the “tax” if she didn’t get her own insurance.


78 posted on 03/27/2019 8:46:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GnuThere
I watched with the sound off.

My first reaction is she is gesticulating the way Hitler did in his speeches.

79 posted on 03/27/2019 8:57:54 AM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: COUNTrecount

‘where’ are ‘people dying’ from climate change? why are only western countries expected to pay the tab for some mystery solution, while half of the rest of the world is still burning wood for heat and having 6-9 children?

and why isn’t AOC delighted over Venezuela - no electricity, no gas for vehicles, elderly and babies dropping like flys. perfect zero emissions utopia.


80 posted on 03/27/2019 9:09:34 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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