House Democrats Hoping to Stifle Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Are Only Hurting Themselves

Considering how conservative our Congress has been over the last 30 years, I’m not surprised at the flack that new Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting. Of course she is being ridiculed by Republicans who scoff at the idea of socialism, which is a dirty word to them. Bret Baier, the host of “Special Report with Bret Baier,” on the Fox News Channel blasted Ocasio-Cortez for celebrating the canceling of Amazon’s plans to put a factory in her district. Many conservatives are livid that she was glad to have helped push Amazon away from putting their plant in New York. After all, they can’t imagine not wanting a new factory in that area, even though it is anti-union. That alone is a good reason to keep them out. Amazon had demanded a lot of tax incentives and give-aways in exchange for bringing in all of those wonderful jobs that conservatives kept harping on.

Amazon wanted 3 billion dollars in tax incentives. I have written many articles in the past with testimony from experts claiming that such tax give always don’t always pay off.

Many conservatives have accused her of being economically ignorant.

Even worse is the criticism coming from her own party. Baier was quick to point out that New York’s own Andrew Cuomo criticized her. Ocasio-Cortez has been critical of the Democratic Party and she should be. The Democrats have run terrible campaigns that ignore important issues and they have lost, until the last elections, all three branches of the government to the Republicans. Moderate Democrats have complained about her treatment of them, but they are guilty of attacking her as well. That is why I’m posting the following article. –SJ Otto

From INTELLIGENCER:

The 116th Congress has only been in session for a week, but some senior Democrats are already dismayed by one new kid on the block. In a Politico report published Friday, several members criticized Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the record – an unusual choice, especially when the target is a freshman who’s had little chance to establish herself as a lawmaker. “I’m sure Ms. Cortez means well, but there’s almost an outstanding rule: Don’t attack your own people,” said Representative Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from Missouri. “We just don’t need sniping in our Democratic Caucus.” Ocasio-Cortez has publicly criticized the party, often on Twitter, for what she sees as its entrenched centrism.

Politico went on to explain that senior Democrats are put off by more than Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter account. Some Democratic representatives objected to a grassroots campaign to put the congresswoman on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, and were affronted by her opposition to new House rules that include pay-as-you-go or PAYGO restrictions. PAYGO requires the House to match any new spending with proportional cuts, and critics generally consider it an obstacle to the welfare expansions that left-wing Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez are likely to favor.

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