AOC’s 75-Year-Old Rival for Top Committee Spot Steps Aside

https://www.thedailybeast.com/aocs-old-rival-for-top-committee-spot-suddenly-steps-down/

28 comments

  1. Somehow, House Democratic leadership will block her again. Mark my words.

  2. The centrists in the party plotted to keep her out. Pelosi probably knew he was going to step down and she went ti him and convinced him to take the post to screw AOC.

  3. Oh gee, what a friggin shock.

    Enough with the old ass Dems.

  4. If the Democrats block her again, it will be proof they are fine with aging, inept, and ineffective leadership. As a life-long Democrats, I’m starting to believe they are just hanging on for the insider trading.

  5. Should be easy to oppoint her now right? RIGHT???

    No, they won’t of course

  7. more brilliant planning by the Democrats. who couldn’t see this coming.

  8. What annoys me the most about her losing this seat was I was told it was a great position to be in the limelight of attention. I’ve heard about that guy exactly one time and it was him saying “we made them scramble” but ultimately had no effect

  9. This is the guy Dem leadership pushed everyone else out for. Didn’t even last 6 months. More embarassing “leadership.”

  10. Hes stepping aside because he has cancer and he’s old as dirt. Thats how dirty pelosi did AOC, she was so determined to fuck with her that she pulled strings to get a half dead cancer patient the job instead.

    Get all these life term corporate dem hacks out of the party already.

  11. What a sad state that we’re celebrating this. There shouldn’t ever be any question about whether someone nearly a century old should be leading anything.

  13. Just in time for the republicans to block the democrats from any kind of investigation. Makes sense.

  14. If AOC ran for Hakeem Jeffries’ seat she would win. Just sayin.

  15. She needs to launch a hint at a presidential run, ramp up press releases, and streamline her ideas for working class Americans and what she aims to accomplish. I know she has progressive ideals, but would love for her to get a ‘working class American’ type of vibe started to hit home to those I can communicate her messages to.

  17. Just because he had cancer doesn’t mean he didn’t want to serve. Cancer is nothing to laugh at but he should had understood that we need younger and new members to combat the onslaught by the Republicans. Dems need to mentor and support younger members and future candidates with common sense talking points to reach everyone. We need both generations to work smarter.

  18. Everyone in the thread saying the dems won’t nominate her to his spot while not realizing AOC isn’t on House Oversight anymore. She’s on Energy & Commerce now, she’s not going to be nominated to Minority Ranking Member

  19. My parents are around 75, and they’re doing fine health wise, but I can’t imagine a world where they would want to step into a high pressure job of any kind. Either these people cling to the death to power, or being in congress is actually pretty fucking easy. 

  22. If they “give her” the spot now that he’s vacated, it really doesn’t make all that much of a difference. They would have been able to make a statement if she had been given it earlier, they made a statement by not giving it to her, but the damage is done. The Democrats have seemingly made it clear that they don’t intend to make substantial changes to leadership, at least at this time.

  23. Let’s not forget it was Pelosi who from a hospital bed pushed this guy instead of AOC.

  24. I mean this as somebody who loves San Francisco with the bottom of their heart. We need to dump pelosi for anything. A literal ham sandwich would be better at this point.

  25. Pelosi needs to step aside and let someone who isn’t a centrist.

  26. I’ve long defended the Democratic party’s right to run their party how they want, and I certainly don’t claim to be a political savant with all the answers on the big picture political calculus they deal with, but at this point I feel like most of their senior leadership wants to lose.

  27. I really need reporters asking Nancy Pelosi if she thought this was the right move in hindsight. 

  28. Crazy! Who would have seen this coming when choosing a 75 year old with cancer?!?

Comments are closed.