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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just a Nasty Pelosi understudy! She shoots off her mouth in like manner. She is copying Nasty totally. She has something to say almost every day to keep her name in the news. Haven’t a lot of people caught on to her act yet?
She is a dyed in the wool Socialist-Communist-Marxist..
She believes everything she spots, right out of the Communist Manifesto and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
She will not change, even if she lives to be a 100.
Her brain is fried................................
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Unreal. Just shows the cowards these mofos in Congress are, they are terrified the military just might turn on them and I hope they do, they took an OATH to do so. If they do not they are only hurting the lives of themselves and their families. This absolutely is an occupation and it astounds me how many people are in the dark about that. If this is allowed to continue people are going to be utterly shocked at the crap the occupiers are going to pull.
She’ll be running in 2024 for POTUS.
No, she’ll be Harris running mate...............................
I think we refer to this as “projection” (i.e. she’s accusing them of what she knows in her heart to be true of her).
“The Mouth that roared”.
They are smarter than AOC, and most other congressRats (of both parties)😀
Go get her Cruz...
She needs stopped and Cruz has the power to do that...
He has much more SMARTS than that bar tender...needs to send her back to a NY bar.
I can’t understand Cortez when her mouth is full of oats.
Look at this, I can’t believe it, he’s is siding with domestic enemies of the USA,.,.
No Gitmo cell for AOC, now that the Dems control it. I expect they will release all of the muzzies for ‘good behavior’ i.e. they haven’t bombed anyone while they were imprisoned and begin sending pro-Trump folks there.
They plan on purges akin to Denazification. Anyone who is on opposition will be labeled a terrorist in the New War on Terror.
The elites are done with elections, they're getting in the way of their timetable. They're dissolving the people and electing a new one.
Somebody please stick something in that gaping maw.
She needs an alpha male in her life to give her an orgasm once in a while...That will help her relax, calm her down and make her appreciative rather than combative.
You will see.
How stupid can the Grand Old Fools be?
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Well ... its like this - I’ll go easy on you ... name a time in recent years they’ve been smart ...
And of the 3000 plus counties in the US, it took them winning only 7 to pull of “the largest and most diverse election fraud in American history”.
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