Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Sunday doubled down on her criticism of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who opposes the sweeping voting rights reform legislation known as the For the People Act that his Democratic colleagues have been trying to push through Congress.
O that’s going to help move Joe. 
At least she didn’t say “OK boomer.”
I just watched Galaxy Quest again a few days ago. Fun flick.
The stakes are high.
And the stakes will drive the outcome. We are not interested in surrendering rights that people of all backgrounds fought and died for over the years.
While I can’t really disagree with AOC on this, she’s not being helpful.
And she has a point… there are lots of these OLD Democrats who still think there are honorable Republicans.
No - if anything she is cementing him in place. The last thing Joe Manchin cares about is what the progressive left says about his position.
Absolutely. She still doesn’t understand her job. Talent ain’t enough.
I’m regretfully thinking this may come to define her career. People the whole world round want to get what they want. Most of them, in Washington D.C. and everywhere else, pretty much, don’t blurt out what they actually think most of the time. I think myself those two ideas are connected somehow.
Surrendering the Right to Vote is something that no student of mine ever contemplated (out loud, anyway) over my entire career.
I know the age cohorts of these students…ranging from Mid Boomers to Xers to those younger, and they had better re-calibrate their thinking. Because the GOP is not Playing and this is no Tap Dance.
If the indivuals in these cohorts grasp what is at hand (regardless of Manchin and his predilections), we should be fine…
She seems to trip over her own hubris more often than not, despite her obvious intelligence and her decent grasp of most of the major issues facing Congress.
Notice Nancy’s response…
Having a Netflix documentary made about you when you haven’t done anything yet, might not be the path to humility.
I’m not sure what, if anything, could move Manchin at this point, but whatever it is is best done privately.
While I appreciate her calling out the Koch network and it’s insidious warping of our politics publicly, nobody should ever have to see the sausage getting made.
If Manchin is stubborn enough to let this stop him from filibuster reform, then he was never going to be for it anyways. AOC just stating it out will have little effect on the outcome.
I was hopeful because early on she took a run at Nancy but then soon their relationship seemed to improve and I wondered if she’d realized you build alliances slowly and don’t rock the boat in the beginning. I read a profile of Hillary years ago that said her experience in the Senate was like that; she came on real strong, was rebuffed, and learned that you take it slow and build. Which she did. That said, there’s a place for truth-blurters. But even that has to be done with an eye toward getting what you want in the process. Sometimes you clear the air. Other times you make an enemy, or at least stir up some rancor you didn’t need to.
Yeah I hate coddling the motherfucker but we need him - that’s abundantly clear. So in private please!
And given what we know about Manchin’s basic personality, she’s making him dig in his heels more firmly than before.