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In reply to the discussion: WAPO: "Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's media blitz" [View all]George II
(67,782 posts)43. Thin skin won't cut it in Washington, DC
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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