{"id":113488,"date":"2019-01-11T18:53:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T22:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=113488"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:53:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T22:53:52","slug":"ocasio-is-on-the-loose-the-best-socialist-to-ever-happen-to-the-democrat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=113488","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio is on the loose! The best socialist to ever happen to the Democrat Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>New party, who dis?&#8217; 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez mocks aging Joe Lieberman, 76, for hoping &#8216;she&#8217;s not the future&#8217; as frightened House Democrats scramble to deal with Twitter star who&#8217;s plotting primary campaigns against them<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a 29-year-old freshman congresswoman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The Democrat is a socialist who wants steep tax hikes and socialized medicine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>76-year-old former Democratic VP nominee Joe Lieberman says the party will lose voters in the long term if her ideas become its bread and butter\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>&#8216;I certainly hope she\u2019s not the future and I don\u2019t believe she is,&#8217; Lieberman said<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Ocasio-Cortez fired back on Twitter:\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;New party, who dis?&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped a hammer on Joe Lieberman on Thursday, after the onetime Democratic vice presidential candidate said he feared her brand of high-tax socialism could doom the party&#8217;s chances for long-term dominance in Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I certainly hope she\u2019s not the future and I don\u2019t believe she is,&#8217; Lieberman said in a\u00a0<a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-isnt-the-future-of-the-democratic-party-joe-lieberman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fox Business Network<\/a>\u00a0interview. He retired in 2013 after serving 24 years in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez retweeted the 76-year-old&#8217;s sentiment with a four-word rejoinder: &#8216;New party, who dis?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Who dis?&#8217; is a common response to a text message from an unknown number. Among millennials in the smartphone generation, the phrase has morphed into a snarky tool for rejecting someone by framing their approach as a mistake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-400f07f237d9b311\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/01\/11\/15\/8405250-6581851-image-a-24_1547219172091.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0 (left, with Rep. Grace Meng) is promoting socialist-leaning policies that make centrist Democrats worry; Ocasio-Cortez, who is 29 years old, doesn't care\" width=\"634\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0 (left, with Rep. Grace Meng) is promoting socialist-leaning policies that make centrist Democrats worry; Ocasio-Cortez, who is 29 years old, doesn&#8217;t care<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-81e906294a501121\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/01\/11\/15\/8405242-6581851-image-a-25_1547219188649.jpg\" alt=\"Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Lieberman, a 76-year-old retired U.S. senator, said his party will lose voters in the long term if Ocasio-Cortez's ideas become its bread and butter: 'I certainly hope she\u2019s not the future and I don\u2019t believe she is'\" width=\"634\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Lieberman, a 76-year-old retired U.S. senator, said his party will lose voters in the long term if Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s ideas become its bread and butter: &#8216;I certainly hope she\u2019s not the future and I don\u2019t believe she is&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f896dd2890996650\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/01\/11\/15\/8405248-6581851-image-a-35_1547219659918.jpg\" alt=\"Ocasio-Cortez fired back with a millennial-friendly zinger whose subtext is that she is the Democrats' futureand Lieberman is its past\" width=\"634\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Ocasio-Cortez fired back with a millennial-friendly zinger whose subtext is that she is the Democrats&#8217; futureand Lieberman is its past<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Just a few weeks into the new Congress, Ocasio-Cortez is already causing heartburn among centrist Democrats who are wary of her unapologetic proposal to raise the top marginal income tax rate to 70 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The current top rate is 37 per cent. That applies to an earner&#8217;s income after the first $600,000. Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s plan would start applying the 70 per cent rate after the first $10 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lieberman said Thursday that she&#8217;s too &#8216;left-left&#8217; to help the Democratic Party be a sustainable political powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;If you look at the majority of new Democrats in the House,&#8217; he said, &#8216;they tend to be \u2013 I say, center-left &#8230; and that is because they had to be center-left to win some of those competitive swing districts that they took from Republicans.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f1cde9e712844a5\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/01\/11\/15\/8405244-6581851-image-m-37_1547219674939.jpg\" alt=\"Lieberman made his comments on the Fox Business Network; news of his interview quickly reached Ocasio-Cortez on social media\" width=\"634\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Lieberman made his comments on the Fox Business Network; news of his interview quickly reached Ocasio-Cortez on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ocasio-Cortez also advocates for an ambitious &#8216;Green New Deal&#8217; that calls for a transition to a 100 percent renewable energy system and the complete replacement of America&#8217;s power grid as a means of generating jobs and saving the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Price-tag estimates for carrying out that agenda \u2013 costs that taxpayers would bear \u2013 range from $2 trillion to $51 trillion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Similarly, Ocasio-Cortez is pushing for a &#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; medical insurance overhaul in the U.S., an ambitious plan that would put much of the industry in the hands of government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Vocal critics of the approach say it&#8217;s an expensive clone of socialized medicine systems found in Canada, Scandinavia and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;More, please,&#8217; a Republican Senate aide told DailyMail.com on Friday. &#8216;Honestly, if the Democrats had 3 more of her, Americans would run away so fast that we&#8217;d have a power monopoly until she&#8217;s Lieberman&#8217;s age.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Despite Ocasio-Cortez&#8217; telegenic approach to self-promotion and her social media star power, Democratic House leaders have sought to sideline her in practical ways that could limit the public&#8217;s exposure to her less mainstream views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When she made a play this month for a seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, a senior Democrat told\u00a0<a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/01\/11\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrats-establisment-1093728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico\u00a0<\/a>that &#8216;[i]t totally pissed off everyone. You don\u2019t get picked for committees by who your grass-roots [supporters] are.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Veteran Democratic members suspected Ocasio-Cortez was behind a siable online campaign to convince Speaker Nancy Pelosi to give her the plum appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And she is expected to loudly advocate for Democratic primary campaigns against some of the middle-of-the-road members of her own party in Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Her new chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, told supporters during a November conference call that &#8216;we gotta primary folks.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6581851\/New-party-dis-Ocasio-Cortez-mocks-aging-Joe-Liberman-hoping-shes-not-future.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6581851\/New-party-dis-Ocasio-Cortez-mocks-aging-Joe-Liberman-hoping-shes-not-future.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}