Pelosi and AOC Deserve Each Other
AOC has picked a fight with the most powerful woman in Washington. The rest of us can just sit back and watch.
by David Catron
July 11, 2019, 10:20 PM
Nancy Pelosi was probably not heartbroken when the fourth-ranking member of the House Democratic Caucus, Rep. Joe Crowley, was defeated in his 2018 primary by a bartender named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Crowley had been seriously considered for House Minority Leader in 2016, and he might well have made a serious play for the House speakership had he been reelected in 2018. From Pelosi’s perspective, it must have seemed that she had lost a potential leadership rival and gained an easily managed back-bencher.
Even after AOC began making demands concerning the membership and agenda of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming while encouraging climate activists to besiege her office, Pelosi probably believed that the solipsistic socialist would settle down once she took office and got to work. But AOC has a rather unique view of her congressional duties. Indeed, she suggested in an interview with WNYC’s New Yorker Hour that Pelosi had deliberately loaded her down with a lot of busy work:
The committee assignments that I was ultimately given were very intense and very rigorous. I was assigned to some of the busiest committees and four subcommittees. So my hands are full. And sometimes I wonder if they’re trying to keep me busy.
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