Posted on 01/05/2020 3:40:36 PM PST by jazusamo
The New York Post is reporting that during a recent interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) complained about having to share the same political party as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The comments came after the representative was asked about the role she imagines herself playing in Congress if Joe Biden ends up being president of the United States, assuming she is still in Congress following the 2020 election.
“Oh, God," Ocasio-Cortez exclaimed. "In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.” Ocasio-Cortez's comments were made during a recent interview with New York Magazine that will be published later this week.
(Via the New York Post)
Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential run , also said the Democratic Party caters too much to representatives who flipped districts in 2018 that had voted for President Trump in 2016.
“For so long, when I first got in, people were like, ‘Oh, are you going to be basically a tea party of the left?’ And what people don’t realize is that there is a tea party of the left, but it’s on the right edges, the most conservative parts of the Democratic Party,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez continued to say that criticizing the party is frowned upon but credits herself with creating the ability for some members to speak their minds.
“I think I have created more room for dissent, and we’re learning to stretch our wings a little bit on the left,” she said.
It's interesting that Ocasio-Cortez views her own political beliefs as too extreme for the major political party on the left in America. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that almost a quarter of the residents in her congressional district are not even from America, as Matt recently pointed out. Democrats have been fighting tooth and nail to keep the citizenship question off the census, which is used to determine the number of representatives apportioned to each state. But even without the citizenship question being asked, it is still possible that Ocasio-Cortez will lose her House district following the 2020 census due to population shifts over the last 10 years.
Go join the American Communist Party then, you Bitch!
I lived on a 120 acre farm in South Western Missouri about a mile from the George Washington Carver monument (farm).
We had an old Elm tree that finally needed to be taken down, before it fell where we didn’t want it to.
After cutting it down, there were long logs laying on the ground were it used to be.
We also had a massive pecan tree on the property, not far from where the Elm tree had been.
The night after cutting the tree down, we started hearing some strange thuds and scratches.
It turns out we had flying squirrels and didn’t know it.
They were still leaping from the Pecan tree in good faith the Elm tree would be where it always had been.
Wrong.
The poor little guys were running out of steam right over the new wood pile, and that’s where they were winding up. I don’t think they were seriously hurt, but they were sure in for a surprise that night.
I’m not even sure she could pull that off.
I miss the nature that I experienced as a kid. I’m lucky to live right on the edge of wilderness area, even though I’m in the middle of a metropolitan area though.
Still get some exposure to “the wild”.
I can imagine what your memories were next to those woods.
Cool...
“”And what people don’t realize is that there is a tea party of the left, but it’s on the right edges, the most conservative parts of the Democratic Party,” she said. “”
And she continues to be unconfined to a mental institution!
And we lament that party is anti-America/American. They’re treasonous in their love for the dearly departed general and Iran.
I lament having her in the same country I’m in...
I don’t see anything cute about squirrels. What do you mean they aren’t destructive? They are as destructive as rats. They get in attics, chew wires, start fires not to mention chewing through screens to back porches to get inside and build nests in soffits. If there is something for them to hold onto, they will chew through anything to get inside. They will even hang upside down from the roof to get in. Try keeping ahead of them on mending screens. I see them jumping from tree to tree and I cheer for them to miss - they never do!
If someone can’t verbalize three sentences in a row without saying “like”, that person is a dumb ass.
Get my point?
I don’t know what to tell you except for the 13 years we’ve lived here that hasn’t happened, not even once.
People here think she’ll go to another district and waltz right in. No, this is the way the party rids themselves of her and says, “Hey, it’s out of our hands!”
or go back to the Communist Party
She is so stupid.
There are already other options in New York State. In 2018, her old rival Joe Crowley ran on the Women’s Equality Party and the Working Families tickets.
AOC Laments...
That’s okay, AOC... I “lament” you being in the same Country as me.
Don’t let her fool you. She would play with his leg hair to get the VP slot.
I lament being in the same solar system as Biden, so I can understand where she’s coming from.
She desperately needs a feedbag.
She desperately needs a feedbag.
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