We just told you how Democrats are attacking AOC and her chief of staff and throwing around the race card while they do it. Well here’s another attack on AOC being leveled by Democrats very upset that she went after Pelosi:
FOX NEWS – House Democrats and their aides are quickly losing patience with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her office’s nonstop sparring with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other long-serving members, suggesting the speaker’s dismissive comments toward her may represent the view of a growing section of the caucus.
“She is a complete fraud,” one senior Democratic source told Fox News on Friday, succinctly summing up members’ frustration.
The last straw, for some, was the lawmaker’s claim that Pelosi was uniquely disrespectful to minority congresswomen. One senior lawmaker, who is black, scorched Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday for allegedly using the race card against the speaker, calling her comments “so inappropriate.” Some lawmakers have even turned the tables, arguing that a group aligned with her is targeting black lawmakers for potential primary challenges in questioning those comments.
“Her peers do not take her seriously,” the senior Democratic source said Friday, adding: “They think it is absurd to call the speaker racist. Offensive and absurd.”
AOC really ruffled some feathers when she went after Pelosi. And you can tell because these attacks on her aren’t diplomatic at all.
In fact they are rather blunt, with this next one saying she’s a NOBODY and she isn’t even “worth the speaker’s brainpower”:
The source said Ocasio-Cortez, who won her seat after a stunning primary victory over longtime House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley, has “no power” — despite her immense Twitter following and unique ability to at times command the news cycle.
“She is a nobody. She is a freshman member of Congress with no power. She is not worth the speaker’s brainpower,” the source said — accusing her of starting “needless distractions from serious issues,” and skipping meetings and conference calls in favor of media interviews, tweets and “glamour.”
“In this building, it is about how many others you can bring along to your side. She maybe has two members—sometimes four,” the source added.
This is the same argument Pelosi made when she dismissed criticism from AOC about the funding bill for the border.
But it’s been clear from the beginning, at least I think, that AOC isn’t really interested in working within the current Democrat Party as much as she wants to replace it. Remember how she opposed Pelosi for the Speakership earlier this year? And there were also reports this year that her Justice Democrats group were targeting other Democratic members who weren’t radical enough, and that appears to be true. In fact that’s how she made her name in the first place, by beating Joe Connelly.
AOC’s true allies in the Democrat party will come in time, when they succeed in pushing more moderate Democrats out.