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House Democrats and their aides are quickly losing patience with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her office's nonstop sparring with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other long-serving members, suggesting the speaker's dismissive comments toward her may represent the view of a growing section of the caucus.

RUSH: The riff between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi. Trump defended Pelosi today. I defended Pelosi — well, I didn’t actually defend her, but when I was on Fox & Friends I said it’s mildly amusing to watch this internecine battle going on in the Democrat Party. We generally don’t see one Democrat accusing another of being a racist, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did accuse Pelosi of having a bias against newly elected women of color. And Trump came out and defended Pelosi while trashing Paul Ryan. He ripped Paul Ryan apart limb by limb, praised Pelosi as somebody who is not...

This may be the moment that political life starts to turn to crap for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Richard Baehr observes, "Criticism from conservatives attacking AOC, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley wash off them. But when the Congressional Black Caucus goes after them and Pelosi gets ticked off at them, then they will be marginalized."

This is King Troll at his best. Good luck to House Dems in trying to figure out whom they should side with now that the most hated Republican in the country has joined Team Nancy.

President Trump weighed in on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez feuding with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. "Well, I think Cortez, who kept Amazon out of New York and they don’t like her for that, thousands and thousands of jobs; I think Cortez is being very disrespectful to somebody that’s been there a long time. I deal with Nancy Pelosi a lot and we go back and forth and it’s fine. But I think that a group of people is being very disrespectful to her," Trump told reporters Friday. "I don’t think that Nancy can let that go on." "But Cortez should...

The jokes about laying a supply of popcorn are everywhere on the right, as the most powerful elected Democrat and the most-publicized purported symbol of the party’s future tear into each other. It’s been brewing a long time, starting with an Ocasio-Cortez-led sit-in outside Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol office a week after the bartender from the Bronx was elected to Congress, two months before she assumed office. Elle Magazine recaps the development of the squabble ever since that bad start. Along with fellow female freshmen Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Presley, and Ilhan Omar – a group that Pelosi has dubbed “the...

This may be the moment that political life starts to turn to crap for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Richard Baehr observes, “Criticism from conservatives attacking AOC, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley wash off them. But when the Congressional Black Caucus goes after them and Pelsoi gets ticked off at them, then they will be marginalized.” The tyro pol who lives and breathes identity politics got too wrapped up in her self-righteousness. Scott Wong reports in The Hill: Congressional Black Caucus members are furious at Justice Democrats, accusing the outside progressive group aligned with firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) of trying to oust lawmakers of...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff recently admitted that the Green New Deal was not conceived as an effort to deal with climate change, but instead a “how-do-you-change-the-entire economy thing” -- a remark likely to fuel Republican claims that the deal is nothing more than a thinly veiled socialist takeover of the U.S. economy. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Saikat Chakrabarti said in May, according to The Washington Post. Its goals include net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, job creation, massive infrastructure investment, a guarantee of clean water and food,...

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday night during an appearance on Fox News‘ Sean Hannity program that infighting between Democrat leadership including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the far-Left faction of her party led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will lead to GOP victories next year. And a new Republican majority in the House. “What does this really mean? I think Republicans are more likely to take the House back because of this breakdown,” Graham said. “There are 31 Democrats that hold congressional seats where President Trump won their congressional district,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, continued. “What does it mean...

Rep. Clay went on to say “I find it juvenile, their tactics, and I find their ignorance to be beyond belief about American history…how dare they try to play the race card at this point, it shows you the weakness of their arguments.”Why, Rep. Clay sounds like a Republican. And then there’s this:The creators of “women must be believed” #Metoo are now shocked and offended that a candidate is banning a female journalist from “shadowing” him. The journalist whose request to accompany the candidate was rejected immediately accused Foster of sexism, thus squaring the circle as only the left can...

I've often wondered whether the internal contradictions of leftist ideology would eventually cause leftists to turn on one another. Perhaps we're catching a glimpse of that in the feud between Nancy Pelosi and the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quartet. Everything about modern leftist ideology is extreme. It is extreme in substance, and its practitioners are self-absorbed, sanctimonious, uncompromising and often irrational. Intersectionality zealots are disciplining white feminists for their selfish advocacy. Biological males are dominating female athletic events courtesy of the transgender movement. Leftists of color and female gender are dissing old white men despite the men's long records of dedication to...

"Jailed for Journalism" Tommy Robinson's t-shirt read as he headed into court Thursday morning at the Old Bailey in London for sentencing.... In France quadriplegic patient Vincent Lambert died Thursday some nine days after the process of his killing began..... President Trump made it official Thursday saying he is backing down from trying to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census..... A bill passed the US House this week with bipartisan support to enable people from India to work in the tech industry on H1B visas..... Around Washington House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talking about the on again off again...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has claimed Nancy Pelosi is trying to incite death threats towards her, the latest in a long running tit-for-tat dispute between the pair. Democrat representative Ocasio-Cortez hit out at House Speaker following Pelosi's scolding of her and her 'squad' during a closed-door meeting with lawmakers in the Capitol. But AOC told reporters afterwards that that Pelosi's comments were incendiary and were 'singing out individuals' despite knowing 'the media environment that we're operating in' as well as being aware of the 'amount of death threats' she receives.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that media attention over her racial complaints about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is unwarranted as she’s “just pointing out a pattern.” The New York Democrat told CNN’s Manu Raju that claims of “persistent singling out … out of newly elected women of color” by Mrs. Pelosi should be interpreted through a broader context. At issue, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday, were cultural issues that are bigger than intraparty disputes. “Well I think it’s really just pointing out a pattern, right?” she asked Mr. Raju. “We’re not talking just about progressives, it’s singling out four individuals and knowing...

Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) unloaded on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday for "using the race card” after Ocasio-Cortez accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of being racially insensitive. Clay, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, fumed at Ocasio-Cortez and the group of progressive lawmakers that includes Reps. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.).

RUSH: Holy smokes, folks, Nancy Pelosi’s getting a dose. She is getting some treatment, the kind of treatment we usually get. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is accusing Pelosi of racism. She says Pelosi has a bias and is singling out freshman women of color. And, of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes that she is a person of color and that Pelosi is singling her out. The Drive-By Media doesn’t know what to make of this. The Drive-By Media desperately wants Democrat unity. The Drive-By Media has been running the Democrat Party. Do not doubt me on this, folks. The Drive-By Media, I really...

So they did, Madam Speaker. So they did. This is what AOC’s Chief of Staff deleted https://t.co/ZR0sEThZTi pic.twitter.com/zZQ1dlaH0J— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) June 27, 2019 Pelosi’s patience is running thin, she noted at her press conference this morning: “They took offense because I addressed, at the request of my members, an offensive tweet that came out of one of the members’ offices that referenced our Blue Dogs and our New Dems essentially as segregationists,” Pelosi said. “Our members took offense at that. I addressed that. How they’re interpreting and carrying it to another place is up to them.”“But I’m not...

Full title: Pelosi responds to AOC slam, says caucus has her back for condemning chief of staff’s ‘offensive’ tweetHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood her ground Thursday in response to New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claiming the speaker has been disrespectful to several minority lawmakers, saying she has the backing of her caucus and defending her handling of the rabble-rousing freshman 'squad' that Ocasio-Cortez leads. Notably, Pelosi all but confirmed that a warning she delivered to rank-and-file lawmakers a day earlier about using social media for attacks on fellow Democrats was prompted by Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff. Asked about her...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said she was done talking in public about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the tensions roiling her caucus after the New York lawmaker criticized her in an interview with The Washington Post. Pelosi at her weekly press conference said she'd said what she wanted to say at a closed-door caucus meeting on Wednesday and refused to engage much with reporters asking her about the fight that has dominated the week in Congress. The Speaker said her remarks at the closed-door caucus meeting calling on Democrats not to take public shots at one another were motivated...

I’m an immigrant my Dad was when he worked in Switzerland , if USA citizen like @AOC @IlhanMN dont like what they got here instead of try changing it why they don’t pack their bags and go where extreme socialism is welcome and experience it ????