Ocasio-Cortez: 'Lawmakers oppose Medicare-for-All while enjoying cheap government Insurance'

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29. Yes, DC is not rural North Dakota. Ocasio's been talking

teamwork since getting a little acquainted with Pelosi and others, and no doubt trying to undo whatever happened between her and the chair of the energy committee she wants on, plus show chairs of other committees she's interested in that she would be an asset.

But this undifferentiated criticism of congress is not honest nor as well aimed as it should be. Democratic congress members wrote the ACA and made it apply to themselves. The problems she criticizes still exist because of Republican opposition. We're 2 years in. Hillary, Nancy and all the rest would have national healthcare in good shape by now, very likely instituting the single payer option they wrote in but Joe Lieberman managed to block.

Btw, I checked her radical Justice Democrats chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti's Twitter feed, and he's still playing it bland over there. He's continuing to hold back overt attacks on Democrats. Justice Democrats site, otoh, continues to push the idea that our congressional Democrats are made up of sell-outs to business. "The Democratic Party needs to fight for something." "Now it’s time for more leaders in the Democratic Party who don’t just represent corporate donors..." Uhuh. Who needs Republicans when we have Democrats?

Btw, back to the nice side, Ocasio's incoming freshman class elected MI's Haley Stevens and TX's Colin Allred as their co-presidents. Both worked in the Obama administration. There's another position which will liaise between freshmen and upper leadership, but don't know who that is.

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