She’s D-hater.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has built her brand in large part by attacking fellow Democrat President Biden.
“There are some members who want to tweet and others who are focused on legislating and getting things done for our constituents,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat and noted “Squad” opponent. “The people I represent want the latter.”
AOC’s Biden bile began on Day 1 of his presidency, when she skipped his inauguration to instead attend a Teamsters strike in The Bronx with far-left allies in the Democratic Socialists of America.
Ocasio-Cortez pointedly endorsed Biden’s 2020 rival Sen. Bernie Sanders and like many progressives was disappointed to see the aging former veep snag the Democratic nomination.
Much of the fire and fury can be traced to The Justice Democrats, a progressive political organization founded in 2017. Before she was in Congress, AOC sat on its board of directors. After AOC was elected, the group’s co-founder, Saikat Chakrabarti, became her first chief of staff.
“Our organization is a hostile takeover of the Dem Party. Not trying to be a part of it,” they said in a Feb 2017 tweet flagged by JusticeDemWatch on Twitter. “We have no allegiance to the Democratic party,” they added that same month.
The AOC-led far left frequently votes in lockstep at Biden’s expense. In November 2021, AOC joined five of her fellow Squad members in voting against the president’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, which steered more than $100 billion to New York.
“This is a movement. [AOC] is trying to tear down everything that we know in the name of socialism, and people need to realize that. And socialism doesn’t work. That is why we have everyone from Venezuela and the south [of the US border] trying to get here. All the socialist countries, so many people are fleeing – but AOC hasn’t figured that out yet,” said Democratic City Councilman Robert Holden.
More recently, when President Biden unilaterally moved to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt — something Ocasio-Cortez has long pushed for — she again found fault.
“The Biden administration didn’t want to do this at all. It was YOUR pushing, YOUR pressure, YOUR organizing that got them to this point,” she told followers in an Instagram story Aug. 27.
In May 2021, during a flare-up between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, Ocasio-Cortez took Biden to task — for not supporting Hamas.
“Biden reinforces the false idea that Palestinians instigated this cycle of violence. This is not neutral language. It takes a side – the side of occupation,” she thundered in a tweet. “If the Biden admin can’t stand up to an ally, who can it stand up to?” she added in a follow up.
She’s called Biden “historically weak” on abortion rights, citing his past support for the Hyde Amendment, which has long banned federal funding from going toward most abortions.
During a soft-ball interview with CNN, AOC refused to say if she would support Biden in 2024.
“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” she finally said.
Dem strategist James Carville blasted the Squad leader: “She is more desirous of social media followers than she is really doing the kind of nitty gritty to get things done.
“These people are always attacking him,” Carville added of House progressives. “It’s almost like they’re doing the Republicans bidding.”
