Sometime in the last 5 years, the Democratic Party has begun to split in two; at first, ever so subtly, and now in a cataclysmic meltdown of civility and showmanship.
At first, it seemed like it was all the fault of Bernie Sander, Vermont Senator and self-avowed Democratic Socialist, who was rousing the younger members of the Democratic Party into following his brand of liberalism.
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Seeing the enthusiasm that Sanders generated brought a few more radicals into the mix, including the ever-precocious freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Now that Joe Biden looks to be a certainty in the White House come January 20th, AOC needn’t pretend to be excited about it any longer.
During an interview with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill of the Intercepted podcast, Ocasio-Cortez was asked about Biden’s choice to give cabinet positions and transition team spots to Washington, D.C. insiders, McKinsey consultants, Big Tech employees, and Wall Street executives.
Scahill called Biden’s transition team a “corporate revolving door” while Ocasio-Cortez noted Biden’s seemingly total rejection of left-wing populism that has, in some cases, allied with right-wing populists on issues of stimulus checks for Americans and endingforeign wars.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC, is the youngest woman member of the US House of Representatives elected in 2018. AOC was just 29 when she swore her.
- Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences in 2011, with a major in international relations and economics. After college, she moved back to the Bronx where she gained employment as an educational director. She also took an extra part-time job as a bartender to make ends meet and help her mother avoid losing.
The interview exchange went as follows:
Scahill: This sort of slipped in under the radar but Politico pointed out that some of the recent additions to Joe Biden’s transitional team were sort of distributed on the sly, there were no ceremonies for it, and perhaps it’s because they’re people who are from Goldman Sachs, from McKinsey, from Boston Consulting. If you look at some of the premier nominee positions, Tony Blinken — total Washington insider — starts this firm that literally brags that they have a direct path to the executive office. You have Avril Hanes at DNI being celebrated … she also is a defender of Gina Haspel who was a key player in the torture and kidnap program run by the CIA. [Emphasis added]
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, how do you make sense of this corporate revolving door that Biden is once again activating and the fact that you have ultra-hawkish, right-wing Democrats, including people who have been apologists for people involved with the torture program? [Emphasis added]
Ocasio-Cortez: It’s horrible and I think it’s part of a larger issue that we have right now which is there’s a lot of talk about ‘Oh, you know the Biden administration is bringing back a lot of Obama appointees’ which depending on where you are in the party, may sound nice I guess but I think what a lot of people fail to remember is that we now have a Biden administration that’s bringing back a lot of Obama appointees but when Obama was making appointments, he was bringing back a lot of Clinton appointees and so this is not just a revolving door of private industry, but it’s a revolving door of just the same people for the last 10, 20, 30 years in a time when this like emerging populism and one of the main reasons — and a huge reason we got Donald Trump in the first place in addition to just the racism that was waiting to reanimated in this country — [there is] just an extreme disdain for this moneyed, political establishment that just rules Washington, D.C. no matter who you seem to elect. [Emphasis added]
It’s not just in individuals, but it’s in ideologies and it’s a way of doing things … and it’s this hand over fist self-dealing, this continued commitment to foreign wars that frankly people all across the political spectrum in the United States are sick of. And you know especially when it comes to foreign policy, we’re really in an appalling state. This is why we had so many people rally behind Democratic nominees but now the situation is like what do we do because the fact of the matter is that the most conservative … Democrat in the field is the one that won. [Emphasis added]
Ocasio-Cortez has been unapologetic in her hopes of pulling the party hard to the left, and this latest lurch may just be her most exuberant yet.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez entered Congress on a mission to turn America into a socialist state.
But her career took an unexpected turn.
And one top Republican sided with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on this major vote.
Congressional leaders spent days behind closed doors drawing up a 2.5 trillion-dollar spending scheme.
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell claimed this boondoggle would provide the American people coronavirus relief.
But right off the bat, members of Congress objected to leaders hammering out a bill in secret and then springing a “take it or leave it” offer with just hours before the vote, leaving no chance for senators and congressmen to read what was in the nearly 6,000-page bill.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—of all people—was one of the first to speak out against this ridiculous set of circumstances.
“Congress is expected to vote on the second largest bill in US history *today* – $2.5 trillion – and as of about 1pm, members don’t even have the legislative text of it yet,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social media.
“It’s not good enough to hear about what’s in the bill. Members of Congress need to see & read the bills we are expected to vote on. I know it’s ‘controversial’ & I get in trouble for sharing things like this, but the people of this country deserve to know. They deserve better,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
For one of the only times ever, Texas Senator Ted Cruz rose to Ocasio-Cortez’s defense.
“@AOC is right.” Cruz began. “It’s ABSURD to have a $2.5 trillion spending bill negotiated in secret and then—hours later—demand an up-or-down vote on a bill nobody has had time to read,” Cruz posted.
Soon after, the Wall Street Journal’s Michelle Hackman confirmed just why members of Congress should be concerned about what they were voting on without any time to read the bill.
Leadership proposed sending $600 checks to Americans making less than $75,000 a year, but $1,800 to family members of illegal aliens.
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“Family members of unauthorized immigrants are now eligible to get stimulus checks under the $900 billion deal reached last night,” Hackman reported. “That eligibility is retroactive, so adults excluded last time could get up to $1800 now.”
This spending bill is a disaster.
Americans get $600 checks while the family members of illegal aliens get three times as much money.
The bill even sends $700 million to Sudan.
Ocasio-cortez Is An Idiot
Massive spending bills drafted in secret and sprung on Congress at the last minute led to the Tea Party in 2009.
The latest 2.5 trillion-dollar giveaway is the very definition of “America Last”.
And it’s a massive slap in the face to the Americans that lost their jobs as governments mandated their businesses shut down.
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