Dem party infighting..........Pelosi retaliates against AOC

[Nostra]

Bubblehead is getting introduced to hardball politics by Nazi Pelousy.

She needs to learn to keep that horse mouth shut.

Dem steering committee bucks AOC, picks other NY lawmaker for coveted spot

The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on Thursday voted to seat Rep. Kathleen Rice on a coveted committee over her New York colleague Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the latest example of House Democrats bucking the firebrand who represents Brooklyn and Queens.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Votto]

But Orange man gone.

Everything is OK.

 

[HenryBHough]

Liberals, AOC is your BEST and BRIGHTEST. Listen to her.
Resistance is futile.

 

[MarathonMike]

There is a certain amount of Karmic Justice at work here. Since Democrats have used every tool available to divide the country, it is wonderful to see their own subversive party tearing itself apart.

 

[pknopp]

All moot after Pelosi loses even more seats in 2022. Both times she was speaker the Dems lost seats. It's odd how they define success.

 

[Votto]

All moot after Pelosi loses even more seats in 2022. Both times she was speaker the Dems lost seats. It's odd how they define success.

Orange man gone

Success!

Again, everyone has healed and everything has normalized.

 

[Unkotare]

All moot after Pelosi loses even more seats in 2022. Both times she was speaker the Dems lost seats. It's odd how they define success.

I think they go by the number of wrinkles she has.

 

[Agit8r]

At least they aren't calling each other "an enemy of the people" like in the GOP

 

[WTH_Progs?]

AOC's brightest star is AOC. Dumb bitch think's she's the most special of special. Nothing worse than a narcissist with no reason to back it up, but PROGS will vote for anything.

Save us from the sun AOC, only you can do it.

 

[366h34d]

Is it the pony show for Georgia runoff?
Unlike others, I highly doubt that Biden will be only a few months PTOUS. I think he will be at least 1 term, and no progressive left will be major role in cabinet, may be couple designated survivors. Even that, I still believe it is too early to cut the progressive left off.

 

[Nostra]

I wonder how AOC is gonna react to this.

 

[toobfreak]

Bubblehead is getting introduced to hardball politics by Nazi Pelousy.
She needs to learn to keep that horse mouth shut.

Horse mouth for a horse face. I want a cat fight.

 

[Papageorgio]

At least they aren't calling each other "an enemy of the people" like in the GOP

"At least?" LOL!

So, your answer is "we suck, but they suck worse." Lol!

Thanks for the laugh!

 

[Votto]

AOC's brightest star is AOC. Dumb bitch think's she's the most special of special. Nothing worse than a narcissist with no reason to back it up, but PROGS will vote for anything.

Save us from the sun AOC, only you can do it.

 

[Zorro!]

I wonder how AOC is gonna react to this.

The same folks the stole the nomination from Bernie, twice, stole the presidency from Trump, just drove the knife into AOC, what a surprise.

The American Prospect,
Committee assignments are one of the least eye-catching parts of politics, but they’re also one of the most important ways in which actual political power is wielded. Certain committees in the House, like Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Appropriations, have outsized influence and money power. (They are often called the “money” committees, not just because they’re where the action is but because members can earn lots of money in campaign contributions from industries with business before them.)

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Deliberations over the next several days will be extremely important for "progressives" in the House, as they angle to lock down seats on these powerful committees for their members. To that end, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was expected to secure a prized position on the Energy and Commerce Committee, a seat vacated by outgoing New Yorker Eliot Engel. Among other issues, the committee has jurisdiction over health care and climate change issues, a natural for a Congresswoman who has championed Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.

Ocasio-Cortez was expected to cruise comfortably to the position. She was the first to raise her hand for the seat, and she won the backing of dean of the New York delegation, Fat Jerry Nadler. But Long Islander Kathleen Rice made an out-of-nowhere, last-second bid for the seat, interrupting the process. Rep. Rice is a backbencher from the party’s right flank who, in 2018, refused to support Nancy Pelosi for Speaker. Without the support of Fat Jerry and with the famous opposition of steering committee leader Pelosi, Rice’s attempt didn’t seem to be serious.

But in a surprise, last-second Steering Committee meeting on exclusive committee assignments Thursday, which was scheduled at 10 p.m. the night before, centrist Democrats put on a show of support for Rice and against AOC, in what looks to have been a process-defying attempt to keep AOC out of the seat. Fellow New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries came out in support of Rice, contra Fat Jerry, as did Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO), author of a book called Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing.

Most vocal in his opposition to Ocasio-Cortez’s candidacy was Texas’s Henry Cuellar, the caucus’s most conservative member. After Ocasio-Cortez was nominated and seconded, Cuellar opposed, commenting: “I’m taking into account who pays their dues and who doesn’t work against other members whether in primaries or in other contexts.” After Rep. Eric Swallowswell (Fkr of Fang) called for a vote on the two candidates came an unusual outcome: Rice crushed AOC 46-13.

More important was Cuellar’s personal opposition to AOC, as evidenced by his statement. Ocasio-Cortez backed Cuellar’s primary challenger, 27-year-old progressive Jessica Cisneros, in March’s primary. Cuellar won narrowly, with backing from the Koch political network and some last minute campaigning from Speaker Pelosi herself, despite the fact that Cuellar regularly votes against the Democrat caucus and has routinely fundraised for Republicans. According to multiple people familiar with the proceedings, Ocasio-Cortez’s recent interview with The Intercept, where she said Speaker Pelosi needed to go, though there was no one to replace her, loomed over the proceedings.

Rice’s triumph is especially surprising, given that she is not known to be well-liked within the caucus. She made powerful enemies of Pelosi and Fat Jerry, and was shut out of a much-desired spot on the House Judiciary Committee just two years ago, because of her refusal to back Pelosi’s speakership in 2018. It’s unclear how her selection might influence her vote this time around. AOC, meanwhile, voted for Pelosi’s speakership.

It’s not the first time Ocasio-Cortez has been frozen out of Energy and Commerce. In 2018, she made a play for a vacant seat, only to be turned away on the grounds that it couldn’t go to a freshman. It was given to sophomore Tom Suozzi instead.

The treatment of AOC looks like a shot across the bow that will have progressives on high alert. If other committee assignments go this way, it will become an open question as to whether a newly united progressive bloc will oppose Pelosi’s speakership come January 3.

These "progressives" just keep letting these establishment folks have their way with them whenever the urge strikes them.