AOC is telling Schumer to bully Kyrsten Sinema because she’s an ‘obstructionist’ and said to make her life “as difficult as possible”:
FOX NEWS – New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a new swipe at Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a moderate Arizona Democrat, and told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to make her life “as difficult as possible.”
The comment came after Sinema angrily told Schumer, D-N.Y., to pick up the pace when it comes to conducting a floor vote in the upper chamber – a process that has been known to drag on for hours.
“Could we have some discipline in the votes, ever?” Sinema said to Schumer during a Tuesday night vote, according to a Bloomberg News reporter. “You’re in charge!”
Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to urge the majority leader to continue the Senate’s painstaking procedures for the mere purpose of annoying moderate Democrats like Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who she has deemed “obstructionists.”
“Actually he should continue to make their lives as difficult as possible and treat them the way they treat, say, public housing residents. Or parents who rely on CTC [Child Tax Credit],” she said. “When they improve, maybe process can improve too.
“Why should we make the lives of obstructionists easier?” she added.
It is unclear which vote Sinema was eventually frustrated by but none of the eight votes – all of which were regarding state court appointments – appeared to be hot-button issues for the Democratic Party.
Democrats have seen divisions arise between progressive and moderate lawmakers – even thwarting some of the Biden administration’s most coveted legislation.
Sinema is too tough for this kind of bullying to work on her. As is Manchin. But that’s not what this is really about. AOC just wants Schumer to punish Sinema because she won’t fall in line with their socialist agenda, because that’s how socialists operate. You don’t agree, you get punished.
This is just AOC showing her true colors.