AOC fires back after GOP Rep Kat Cammack accuses Dems of getting drunk during speaker debacle

[CatWoman]

AOC fires back after GOP Rep Kat Cammack accuses Democrats of getting drunk during speaker debacle: ‘If only!’


Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knocked down accusations from Republican Representative Kat Cammack of Florida after she claimed Democrats were drinking during their vote to nominate a speaker of the House of Representatives.

Ms Cammack delivered a speech to nominate Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to be speaker and said that Republicans are more willing to have open debate than Democrats. She also said Democrats behaved improperly during the vote.

“Diversity of thought is a good thing,” she said. “But they want us divided. They want us to fight each other. That much has been made clear by the popcorn and blankets and alcohol that has come in over there.”

The remarks led to jeers from the Democratic side, which led Ms Cammack to say the House was not in order and the clerk to gavel in the chamber. Democrats also reportedly called to “take down her words” from the official record, Punchbowl News reported.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-kat-cammack-speaker-vote-b2256233.html

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[cilla4progress]

1. Really seeing her profile rising in the party.

She is the future! We are in good hands.

[NH Ethylene]

28. So am I. I was back and forth with her for a while.

But she has really matured while still keeping her sharp edge. Very promising.

[cilla4progress]

30. I think people underestimate her due to her age and, frankly,

her attractiveness!

Remember how Gen Z came out so strong for us in the mid-terms? She was critical in that!

[betsuni]

42. No.

[Botany]

2. Loves me some AOC

If only! If Dems took a shot every time McCarthy lost a Republican, we’d all be unconscious by now.

[Marthe48]

4. And it's just so tempting

watch next space

[vlyons]

13. She's beautiful, smart, fearless, and honest

[Botany]

18. They stopped doing it w/in a year or so but I used to love watching old white mostly male ....

.... men try to take on A.O.C. on social media. It was Bambi meets Godzilla.

[Lucinda]

33. +1

[orangecrush]

3. I just heard from a repug

Who is fairly unaware of my politics

You would not believe how much this shit is pissing off the GOP "base".

He hasn't heard about the alleged "alcohol" yet.

I think it's hilarious

Who's getting "owned" now?

[Sky Jewels]

9. January 6 coup? No problemo! Popcorn and allegations of shot-taking? Now that's

stepping way over the line!

[orangecrush]

11. You nailed it

[LiberalArkie]

20. The Democrats could bring in a bar, there are no rules to prohibit it yet.

[Sky Jewels]

26. Ha ha! They should.

I saw a drink listed on a hipster Portland (OR) bar menu called a "Dick Pic." That would be appropriate for the Dems to delicately sip while laughing at the GQP implosion.

[mgardener]

35. Don't forget

They don't think guns on the House floor are a problem.

[Sky Jewels]

36. Yup.

And MTG and other nuts wouldn't wear masks in the height of the pandemic. They were happy to infect colleagues.

[cilla4progress]

31. Excellent!!!

[orangecrush]

39. Thanks

[wryter2000]

40. Which shit?

The mess the Republicans have created or Dems celebrating?

[orangecrush]

43. BOTH

[iluvtennis]

5. Ya'll can't have all of the fun. I'll drink to that as well.

[magicksmom]

6. Fine tuning Dem's messaging. . .

My hopes & prayers when the title “The Squad” was coined were ‘please please please HP give the elders in the party the vision to bring these brilliant young people into the circle & show them how to play the game and cut them loose’. Prayers Answered 😅

[cilla4progress]

32. Credit to Nancy, Clyburn

and Hoyer for that.

[DemInBuckhead]

7. Knowing how much Republicans love projection...

...someone might want to peek inside Ms. Cammack's cabinets and see what's there.

[Genki Hikari]

12. No need to go to this scumbag's house

Check her water bottle. I can just about guarantee that it has bathtub gin in it.

[geardaddy]

25. Exactly!

She looks like she's been to a few sorority chug a lug parties.

[Midnight Writer]

8. I guess drinking during their Party Meltdown is a bit gauche, but...fuck their feelings.

[GoCubsGo]

10. "Diversity of thought is a good thing."

But, only if one has an "R" after their name, right fucko? Spot-in reply from AOC.

Never forget: Every accusation the Republicans make against Democrats is really a confession.

[MontanaMama]

15. The party of projection!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. Cammack deflects and accuses Dems of creating the problem Repukes created. Typical.

[TeamProg]

16. MORE PROJECTION..... n/t

[LiberalFighter]

17. Must not be any gators in Cammack's district.

Or they want nothing to do with her.

[IronLionZion]

19. Diversity of thought for GOP is far-right and further right

That's why McCarthy has lost 7 rounds already and they won't nominate anyone else.

[gratuitous]

22. This seems to be the talking point Republicans have landed on

Which is weird for the party of lock-step suddenly embracing "diversity of thought" when it makes them look like a pack of fools. I also like how the Republicans and their media sympathizers are acting as if Speaker Pelosi never faced division in the Democratic caucus and out-foxed the troublemakers.

One thing's for sure: Kevin McCarthy is no Nancy Pelosi, and it's more apparent with each failed vote. My take is that McCarthy thought that by assuming the trappings of winning the Speaker vote (like moving his stuff into the Speaker's office) he'd just naturally go on to a victorious vote. When that didn't pan out, he didn't have a Plan B and he doesn't have the brains or the political savvy to figure out what to do now except hold vote after vote and hope something happens.

[Upthevibe]

21. Kick. N/T

[Mblaze]

23. Of course

We want them divided. The more they are divided, the safer our country is from Fascism.

[world wide wally]

24. One glaring thing that is apparent is that at least 20 Repukes do not believe in "Majority rules"

[BarbD]

27. Right on. They believe in chaos.

This is just plain stupid.

[NowISeetheLight]

29. Booze and Popcorn Don't Mix

They’re not drinking… they’re too busy with the popcorn.

[Pinback]

34. Meanwhile the Republicans are snorting coke

and having orgies in the cloakroom. Or so I’ve heard.

[waddirum]

41. the name of this band is

Harry and the Asscracks

[honest.abe]

37. I would say a couple of drinks would be more productive that what the GOPers are doing.

Cheers!

[Caliman73]

38. Republicans can't even take responsibility for their lack of leadership.

They try to pass it off as "debate". Bullshit! They are disorganized and can't govern. They have weak leadership, no plan for helping American citizens, and are being lead by varying levels of extremism.

Then they try to blame the Democrats for sitting back, enjoying, and staying out of the shitshow that They, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY have created over the last 50 years.

Where is the "Party of personal responsibility"? Oh yeah, that was just another like like the rest of the bullshit Republican Party platform of the last 50 years.