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AOC already House Speaker? Bernie Sanders ready for the transformation of America? How are we all supposed to sleep at night?

The Bernie Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez Waking Nightmare



The Bernie Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez Waking NightmareWhile an ongoing Deep State coup d’état seeks to remove President Donald Trump from office, Democrat ‘progressives’ are working a dangerous and devious little coup of their own. Just two months after being sworn in as New York representative, Bernie Sander’s protégé Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already replaced Nancy Pelosi as de facto House Speaker, according to the usually spot-on Washington Examiner. AOC ending up as House Speaker came from a combination of Pelosi losing her grip on her party as the Democrat Party itself is throwing in with the newly-elected “freshman” socialists.
How’s this for a headline that should cause widespread alarm: ‘It’s already Speaker Ocasio-Cortez’ (Washington Examiner, March 4, 2019)
“Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., floated the idea of dramatically changing the way the House works. Having lost two recent votes known as "motions to recommit" — minor votes, but stinging for any House leader — she basically wants to prevent the House minority from its traditional right to force votes to change legislation before it passes.”
That’s a long way to run from AOC’s ‘moderate’ Democrat-chasing hit list, Mrs. Pelosi.
“This is a terrible, cynical idea which, had it been in place for the last 25 years, would have silenced House Democrats almost the entire time. But more importantly, it's an idea that Pelosi is only considering because it's easier than actually asserting control of her own party in Congress — which, if you haven't noticed, she has nearly lost to a politically artless but media-savvy House freshman after less than two months. (Washington Examiner) “The rules of the U.S. House, unlike those of the Senate, give the minority party few rights. It cannot stop or even meaningfully delay legislation on which the majority party is intent. But one thing the minority has always been able to do is force a couple of protest votes at the end of the process that put the majority on the spot. On the rare occasions where these motions to recommit succeed, they send bills back to committee for specific changes. “After losing two such votes on gun rights because dozens of Democrats defected, Pelosi is considering abolishing one of the very few rights that the House minority has.

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“…Yet to their horror, the party's most visible and apparently most powerful figure turns out to be not the speaker they elected, but rather, a member of the party's socialist cuckoo-bird wing. “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is now setting the Democratic agenda in both houses of Congress. You don't believe us? Witness how, with the aid of a friendly media that seems to enjoy her ignorant tongue-lashings as much as it bristles at President Trump's, Ocasio-Cortez lured six Democratic senators running for president into a trap that could well cost the party their White House. They committed to her insane, embarrassingly half-baked Green New Deal proposal and will soon be forced to vote for a resolution supporting it. “In the House, things are just as bad. On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez was giving orders to House Democrats behind closed doors on how they are to vote, lest they face a primary challenge next year backed by her wealthy chief-of-staff and his super PAC.” “Pelosi could rein in Speaker Ocasio-Cortez, but so far she is unwilling, perhaps scared by her popularity on the Left. And so, Pelosi's only other option is to protect her vulnerable members from even having to take difficult votes, like the ones Republicans can currently force with motions to recommit. After all, you can't lose if you don't let the other side play.”

While all this is playing out, AOC’s chief mentor, Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is providing the major distraction that he is set to “TRANSFORM” America. Lifelong Socialist Sanders sounds a lot like ‘Resistance’ leader Barack Obama when he says he’s running for president “not just for election but for transforming our country”. Big-talking Sanders wants everybody and not just millennials to “feel the bern” as they are consumed by the raging fires of socialism. Braggadocio comes just as easy to the 77-year-old relic as it did to the boastful Obama. Little does Sanders know that most people know he’s only in the Democrat primaries to make other presidential hopefuls look good, a mission impossible given how unqualified Dems like Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren et al, really are. In their own way, progressives are just as radical as Sanders is, and only lack the courage to brag about it. Crying the blues about how his family could only give him an allowance of 25 cents a week when he was growing up, the senator told his supporters that "because of all the work we have done, we are now on the brink of winning not just an election, but transforming our country." After losing the DNC primaries to Hillary Clinton, he somehow ended up with three mansions after the 2016 presidential election. Wonder what he’ll add to his real estate holdings this time out? AOC already House Speaker? Bernie Sanders ready for the transformation of America? How are we all supposed to sleep at night?


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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