Posted on 01/13/2021 9:08:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) fumed at Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) for contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election last week, saying that they needed to “get out” and they “do not belong” in the Senate.
“And so, I want to be clear to Senator Ted Cruz, you do not belong in the United States Senate. I want to be clear to Senator Josh Hawley, you do not belong in the United States Senate,” AOC ranted in an hour-long Instagram Live video. “You do not belong in any democratically elected seat when you don’t, when you do not believe that that election was even legitimate, according to your self-serving claims. So get out.”
“If they had any shred of integrity, any shred of integrity about their claims, their lies really, but their claims about this election, they would take off their pin and turn it in,” she continued. “But this isn’t about the truth to them. This is about if they want to be president in 2024. Let me give you a sneak peak. You will never be president. You will never command the respect of this country. Ever. Ever. And you should resign. So should every member of Congress that voted to overturn the results of our election.”
WATCH:
AOC to @tedcruz & @HawleyMO: “You do not belong in the United States Senate … you should resign” pic.twitter.com/qB5FE0iGsd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 13, 2021
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley noted that Democrats have raised some of the same objections in the past and that “it was not constitutional arson then, and it is not that now.”
“It is the use of a federal law to raise a challenge that has been raised in past elections over important issues of voter fraud or irregularity,” Turley wrote. “As with past Democratic challenges, this one by Republicans will not succeed. However, the point of yelling ‘fire!’ is to cause panic for political purposes.”
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board recently argued that the law that allows for challenging election results is unconstitutional:
In our view this week’s exercise is also unconstitutional. The text of the original charter, elaborated by the 12th Amendment, gives state legislatures the power to appoint electors. The Vice President is charged to open the votes to be counted—nothing more.
The Electoral Count Act of 1887, which the House and Senate will act upon, is unconstitutional in giving Congress the ability to second-guess those state decisions. In stretching this law for a partisan exercise, Republicans are also giving Democrats more ammunition to use in their campaign to overturn the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote.
This is the fire Republicans are playing with, no matter their political calculation. Some may figure the vote Wednesday is merely symbolic; they can show solidarity with Mr. Trump’s voters and dodge a primary challenge in 2022. Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are making their own presidential calculations for 2024. But the cost of this showboating will be more political cynicism, and a precedent that Democrats are sure to exploit in the aftermath of some future close election.
Che probably had a mind, depraved as it was. An average can of Alpo probably has a higher IQ than AOC.
These people have been running the Resistance for 4 years and still running it, Trump speaks for 2 hours and he is Impeached. How stupid can the Grand Old Fools be?
The dems’ hate will be directed at WHOEVER gets the Republican nomination. It has litte to do with the person. It’s pure hatred for anyone who gets in the way of their turning this country into venezuela.
If Romney ever got the nomination, they would turn him into a racist/sexist/homophobe who refuses to use the mandated pronouns.
2 hrs? He was impeached for a 30 min nothing phone call.
Don’t laugh. Thaf’s exactly where some of these people are desiring to go.
Cracks me up every time I read it.
Regards,
Let me be clear Sandy, bring me a drink and get back on the Stage and Dance.
Stupid bitch, they are duly and legally elected representatives. You are one stupid whore and either don’t know how democracy works or just as likely don’t care. You are a stupid bitch who doesn’t get to tell other elected representatives, and the voters who put them there, that they don’t belong, in spite of what happened in this “election”. If your head swells much more it will pop, and there’s plenty of room for more air in there, certainly no brain is taking up space. What a stupid whore.
If a Joe Biden can be president, then a mop in a broom closet can be elected also.
How have Cruz and Hawley been responding to this witch hunt?
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
What comes out of AOC’s mouth is much more dangerous than a COVID virus, it is stupidity . . . and that can be very contagious.
Women in politics...
Women teaching our school kids...
Women leading churches...
Women w/o husbands raising kids...
Women talking in MSM...
Women at BLM riots and working the voting precincts...
Women affecting America, a lot...
Even the Conservative Review has bought into the propaganda. It was my understanding that Cruz and a few more were asking Congress for an audit of the results? Something perfectly legal and within the rules.
People, we need to welcome all this. The more the Commies do stuff like this the stronger we get. I think she may make some think they are pushing too far. Let the show their Commie beliefs
I don’t believe 101% of people that voted for Trump think the election was stolen.
Explain please.
110% of Dem voters don’t think it was stolen.
It’s hard to take her seriously with that squeaky little voice.
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