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In reply to the discussion: WAPO: "Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's media blitz" [View all]EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)21. She is right on big picture issues
Honestly, with all due respect, the attitude you espouse is the attitude of people who dont know how to get things done.
Vision matters. Republicans understand this. Policy matters too, but both are important. We shouldnt trash our vision people because they dont currently have complete mastery of every policy detail.
For gods sake: the Republican Party wants to cage kids and kill people by reducing healthcare for billionaire tax cuts.
And you want to throw out an effective communicator who could lead the emotional fight against the GOP because she quoted the Nation and said hardworking people often have multiple jobs to make ends meet? Come on, man.
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Sure they do. Dems in leadership absolutely do. And there is a reason they are in leadership.
stevenleser
Aug 2018
#11
Nitpicking? She is wrong, and easily demonstrated to be wrong. She is going to be in congress and is
stevenleser
Aug 2018
#17
Elected officials do two things, vote on bills and public speaking on the issues. Neither is
stevenleser
Aug 2018
#24
I'm guessing you refer to her promotion of Medicare For All as bashing the ACA.
lagomorph777
Aug 2018
#148
That would imply people believes the incorrect facts she is spewing. I don't think anyone does.
stevenleser
Aug 2018
#7
She is making policy for the country. She should know better than to trust a third rate publication.
stevenleser
Aug 2018
#13
Bullshit, we don't need people who don't know the facts to be speaking for us. THAT is defeatist
stevenleser
Aug 2018
#19
"not knowing anyone who works two jobs" is almost a perfect illustration...
redgreenandblue
Aug 2018
#149
Wow! These kinds of misrepresentations can really backfire. She grew up in privilege.
R B Garr
Aug 2018
#151
Once upon a time, two well known individuals were elected to the senate
question everything
Aug 2018
#54
""In a Koch brothers-funded study...it shows that Medicare for all is actually much more, is..
Cha
Aug 2018
#26
Point is many on our side have pointed out that the language in teh study suggests
mr_lebowski
Aug 2018
#121
That article is a fluff piece. It doesn't mention any of the issues brought up by the paper.
dansolo
Aug 2018
#145
Yes. She bashed Tammy Duckworth for pointing out that she doesn't speak for the midwest.....
George II
Aug 2018
#45
Exactly, and with the primary results in the midwest that we saw last week...
George II
Aug 2018
#117
Republicans should be holding AOC's feet to the fire, not fellow Dems. This reeks of sour grapes.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2018
#38
That doesn't answer my questions. But you're great at attempting to read my mind.
George II
Aug 2018
#52
The curious thing is that when someone holds two jobs that person is "employed"....
George II
Aug 2018
#50
It's not meant to be taken as fact. It's meant to make a point about income inequality.
Quixote1818
Aug 2018
#66
What's concerning is she is using a Koch funded study to bolster her Democratic Socialist position.
George II
Aug 2018
#44
Its not concerning at all, and the numbers do show that it is a savings despite this Wapo nonsense.
JCanete
Aug 2018
#69
You don't actually have to accept a reports findings to throw back the inconveneint
JCanete
Aug 2018
#130
That whole passage about Medicare for All and the Koch study sounds like total bullshit.
JCanete
Aug 2018
#68
Yes, it is total bullshit. That's the point. Using the Kochs to bash the ACA is disurbing.
ucrdem
Aug 2018
#70
No, that's not what she's pointing out. She's using the Kochs to sell medicare-for-all.
ucrdem
Aug 2018
#73
are you intentionally being obtuse? She literally says that their study isn't intended to
JCanete
Aug 2018
#74
this: "it shows that Medicare for all is actually much cheaper than the current system."
ucrdem
Aug 2018
#80
what the fuck? Are you serious? YOu think the Koch brothers are trying to bash the ACA by promoting
JCanete
Aug 2018
#81
Again how on earth would promoting medicare for all help to kill the ACA. Lay out a scenario
JCanete
Aug 2018
#83
yeah, then we shoudn't buy into shitty wapo stories that continue to support that mythology.
JCanete
Aug 2018
#94
except that she's not. Except that this does not help them. That seems to be the part
JCanete
Aug 2018
#88
but not teach me how this is doing that....okaaaay. but I could learn so much from you...right now.
JCanete
Aug 2018
#90
And I think I prefer it that way. I'll take "people's justice" over "king's justice" any day.
redgreenandblue
Aug 2018
#150
There is some nit picking going on here and Corporate Dems seem reluctant to accept AOC.
theophilus
Aug 2018
#123