Full Caucus Set to Vote After Key Panel Picks Pelosi-Backed Dem Over AOC for Oversight Spot

www.commondreams.org Full Caucus Set to Vote After Key Panel Picks Pelosi-Backed Dem Over AOC for Oversight Spot | Common Dreams

Rep. Gerry Connolly narrowly bested Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a secret-ballot vote Monday for the ranking spot on the House Oversight Committee in the upcoming Congress—but the New York progressive still has a shot to secure the role in a full Democratic caucus vote on Tuesday.

Rep. Ro Khanna said that "many" in the House Democratic caucus, including himself, will back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Tuesday's vote.

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Goddamn just not gonna improve shit even a little bit, huh Democrats?
- Democrats aiming to lose what little support they have left.
  
  They would prefer to lose everything rather than move Left even a single inch.
  
  at least they’ll still have liz cheney
- Gotta maintain that sweet status quo at all costs.
  
  And by status quo, we mean giving ground to the right year after year.
- The real test is the DNC chair election on 2/2/25.
  It'll honestly determine who wins 2028 more than who the candidates are I believe.
  If Ben Wikler gets it, I think he'll listen to voters and let a fair primary happen. If we get that, we'll win the general regardless. But the party immediately picking a favorite and mixing money together before the first primary vote is cast just turns off Dem voters.
  We at least need the illusion that there's a fair process
  
  We at least need the illusion that there's a fair process
  I don't think an illusion would work, because it's less about the idea of a fair process and more about how much the fina candidate makes people want to vote for them. That's why a fair primary is necessary.

Ngl I think AOC should straight up form a new party with Bernie or something like that, because the DNC is just gonna keep giving us the neoliberal shit sandwich until they’re subsumed by the Republican Party outright (other parties being outlawed, of course).
I know that end-state sounds hyperbolic, but at this point I wouldn’t be shocked if that’s how things eventually play out if this authoritarian slide continues.
- Except she spent the last election cycle mocking third parties and saying you need to 'build coalitions' by working within the party
  If this is what she got for her support of Israel and 'working within the party', then I think she might have been taken for a ride
  
  Like how Bernie "worked with" the Dems by bending the knee to Hillary after the 2016 primary?
  Yeah idk why the progressives think they can work with the right wing obstructionists that are the Democratic party.
  
  Except she spent the last election cycle mocking third parties and saying you need to 'build coalitions' by working within the party
  She is right. Divide and conquer is a super effective strategy, the left loves doing the divide part to itself then acts shocked when it gets conquered.
  
  Unfortunately not the first time AOC’s “learned” this lesson. See? She is a great Dem, learn nothing and do it again.
- It's not a bad idea. However, better would be a reforming and rebranding of the current DNC's image. It is the right time to begin setting the foundations though, make no mistake.
  
  However, better would be a reforming and rebranding of the current DNC's image.
  And how would anyone go about that when the party leadership is fighting them at every turn?
- Seconded

"Pelosi's penchant for backroom sabotage was easy to cheer when she was pushing fellow octogenarian and likely loser Joe Biden out of the presidential race; it's harder to justify when an eminently qualified rising star—who, whether Pelosi likes it personally or not, is widely known to be a cornerstone of the party's future—pushes for a simple promotion," Sammon added.
God damn...

Fuck the Democratic Party. We demand Progressive Party
- Now is the perfect time to put together a new party. We have two years to make it viable. Assuming we still have elections.
  
  !newpoliticalparty@lemmy.world is a new community for this purpose. Unfortunate it’s on .world
- Bring back the moose!

Hopefully the old fuck just has a stroke tomorrow and keels over. That would be a fitting divine punishment for his hubris and desperate clinging to power. Those that refuse to let the next generation take the reins in their time deserve to sudden suffer sudden heart attacks. Peaceful retirement is for those who actually are willing to retire.
- Where's a Death Note when the world needs one?
  
  If I get my hands on one of those, I'm going to need a microfiche writer...
  Also, be prepared for a thousand fold multiplying of deaths due to auto-erotic asphyxiation...

We need so many more Luigi's to fix this country for the hand sitters.
-Me, a hand sitter

I'm here to end insider politics!
plays insider politics
gets fucked by insider politics
Who could have seen this coming?
- Imagine being such a hater that's up your own ass that you hate AOC.

It’s great when the people running the country on both sides refuse to learn anything from their mistakes.
- There seems to be only one side, with minor views on which group of people they are targeting.
  
  Fuck off and stop talking, both sideser

And so AOC compromised everything she claimed to believe in for nothing. Still refused her seat at the table.
Let this be a lesson to any other progressives who thinks they can sell out to gain favor with party leadership.
- Who or what did she sell out?
  
  Everything she ever claimed she stood for. She hasn’t held to any promises, and has sold out progressives to the Dem establishment again and again and again.
- Do you even read?
  
  Yes, but I’m guessing a lot more theory and a lot less propaganda than you.
- If only the government gave a fuck about personal morals
  
  For someone who doesn’t give a fuck about our personal morals, they sure spend a lot of money to manipulate them.

We could use a purple party where both butthurt teams can get along somewhere in the middle
- DNC is so middle of the road and you need one even closer to the RIGHT??
- That's what the DNC keeps trying to be, and why they keep losing to fascists. They'll do anything to not have to listen to their voters, because it costs their donors money
- Babby's first political thought

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