The NY Times published a great article on AOC and how she manipulates the environment to set herself up as a victim. I snatched the below from their pages. Full article here.
It’s pretty impressive of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, playing the victim card in a fight she started.
The flap arises from the recent House passage of the Senate’s emergency border-funding bill, without voting on lefty-favored amendments. AOC and three other radical freshmen women (Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley) voted against it — and AOC’s office started smearing the moderates who’d demanded action.
Specifically, AOC Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti (in a since-deleted tweet) accused such Democrats of propping up a system that “fuels a racist ideology.”
That prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a closed-door conference meeting where she warned, “You got a complaint? You come talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is OK.”
She also spoke to The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, noting of AOC & Co.: “All of these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world . . . But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.”
Whereupon AOC whined to The Washington Post about Pelosi’s “explicit singling out of new elected women of color.”
Hello? The speaker was “singling out” the four members who were playing this specific game, and waxing indignant that other Democrats listen to their own constituents.