The media star of the current Congress is freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a Democrat from New York. Ocasio-Cortez, who is known as AOC, has been a driving force behind the Green New Deal. She has also managed to make more misstatements and shown more confusion on TV in two months than the rest of Congress combined. Despite her many misstatements, AOC is still the poster child for the current Democrat majority. That's why her latest moves are so important.
1. Yesterday, AOC blew up in a meeting among House Democrats. She was upset that an amendment had been passed to the latest gun control measure. That amendment requires that when a person fails a background check for purchase of a gun, that person must be reported to ICE if he or she is an illegal alien. The focus of the amendment was to try to help locate illegal aliens who are gang members or criminals and who seek to buy weapons. There were over twenty Democrats who joined with the Republicans to pass the amendment. AOC was livid about that. She told her fellow Democrats that anyone who voted with the Republicans like that again would have their name put on a list to be faced with a primary opponent in 2020. In other words, AOC made clear to her fellow Democrats that if they ever cooperated with the GOP, she would try to drive them from Congress.
Think about that for a moment. Here we have the Democrat star of the moment making clear that the Democrats do not want to "work across the aisle." They don't want compromise or bipartisanship. They want total power no matter what the cost.
2. AOC also attacked the Wall Street Journal for writing an article about her that she didn't like. Think about that one too. We've just gone through 2 years during which the Democrats endlessly condemned the President because he counterattacked against the media when that media attacked him. People like AOC told us that Trump's statements were anti-American, inappropriate and undemocratic. Now here's the Democrat star doing the same thing.
3. AOC got caught not having a residence in her district as required by law. She also got caught putting her boyfriend on the Congressional payroll in violation of ethics rules. Her response has been to deny everything but then to go on the attack against those who found out these facts. Shouldn't we have an investigation run by the DOJ into this mess?
1. Yesterday, AOC blew up in a meeting among House Democrats. She was upset that an amendment had been passed to the latest gun control measure. That amendment requires that when a person fails a background check for purchase of a gun, that person must be reported to ICE if he or she is an illegal alien. The focus of the amendment was to try to help locate illegal aliens who are gang members or criminals and who seek to buy weapons. There were over twenty Democrats who joined with the Republicans to pass the amendment. AOC was livid about that. She told her fellow Democrats that anyone who voted with the Republicans like that again would have their name put on a list to be faced with a primary opponent in 2020. In other words, AOC made clear to her fellow Democrats that if they ever cooperated with the GOP, she would try to drive them from Congress.
Think about that for a moment. Here we have the Democrat star of the moment making clear that the Democrats do not want to "work across the aisle." They don't want compromise or bipartisanship. They want total power no matter what the cost.
2. AOC also attacked the Wall Street Journal for writing an article about her that she didn't like. Think about that one too. We've just gone through 2 years during which the Democrats endlessly condemned the President because he counterattacked against the media when that media attacked him. People like AOC told us that Trump's statements were anti-American, inappropriate and undemocratic. Now here's the Democrat star doing the same thing.
3. AOC got caught not having a residence in her district as required by law. She also got caught putting her boyfriend on the Congressional payroll in violation of ethics rules. Her response has been to deny everything but then to go on the attack against those who found out these facts. Shouldn't we have an investigation run by the DOJ into this mess?
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