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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Claire McCaskill Wanted To Play To The Right And Lost Big!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't want condescending folks telling her how to run an election.
Rep-Elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hits back at Fox News and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO).

The New York lawmaker in waiting is a troll on social media. She responded to the outgoing lawmaker's remarks calling her a "new shiny thing."


As a woman of color, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be the youngest to be sworn in the House of Representatives. She hasn't even took up a committee position and the right has been on this onslaught of attack.

But she hits back and I love it. I enjoy her responding to critics. She said it best, don't fuck with the Bronx. She ain't fooling around.

She also engages in progressive activism to thwart attacks from the right.

The outgoing McCaskill gave an interview to CNN this week wherein she said Republican lawmakers privately admit Donald J. Trump is "nuts," but she also made news in questioning why Ocasio-Cortez is "the thing" and "a bright and shiny new object" for Democrats.

McCaskill criticized Ocasio-Cortez's embrace of left-wing policy proposals, saying she wasn't sure "what she's done yet to generate that kind of enthusiasm," and warned the Democratic Party against pursuing an agenda considered too liberal in certain parts of the country.
Go home, Clarie.
"I don't know her," McCaskill told CNN earlier this week when asked if she'd consider Ocasio-Cortez a "crazy Democrat" like the ones she decried on the campaign trail. "I'm a little confused why she's the thing. But it's a good example of what I'm talking about -- a bright shiny new object, came out of nowhere and surprised people when she beat a very experienced congressman."

"And so she's now talked about a lot," McCaskill added. "I'm not sure what she's done yet to generate that kind of enthusiasm, but I wish her well. I hope she hangs the moon. But I hope she also realizes that the parts of the country that are rejecting the Democratic Party, like a whole lot of white working class voters, need to hear about how their work is going to be respected, and the dignity of their jobs, and how we can really stick to issues that we can actually accomplish something on."

McCaskill concluded, "The rhetoric is cheap. Getting results is a lot harder."

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous2:10 PM



    Ocasio-Cortez is rapidly mastering the art of the spin. A tweet that edits a comment down to “call me a “thing” and “shiny object” is cheap. Sen. McCaskill was conveying her sense of the freshman Congresswoman’s win as the new phenomenon in U.S politics- “the new thing.”

    But this is a continuation of “the girl from the Bronx” stretching the truth to fit her purposes. She did not grow up in “The Bronx” - as we ex-40th Precinct residents experienced it. She spent her first five years in a planned community in Parkchester, moved to Yorktown Heights in Westchester, then off to Boston. No suffering through P.S. 65 or St. Luke’s Parochial for this little girl. Or getting groped as a teen on the packed No. 2, 4 or 5 Trains.

    We’ve gotten used to politicians claiming they dodged sniper fire in Bosnia, “served in Vietnam”, “never had sex” with anyone they shouldn’t have, or was hiking the Appalachian Trail. Ocasio-Cortez has great potential for joining their ranks.

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