Hey Cats! Your AOC post of the day!
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Are you ready for "Speaker Ocasio-Cortez?"
https://spectator.us/republicans-should-make-aoc-house-speaker/
For Democrats to be truly honest, America deserves Speaker AOC. House Republicans should hand her the gavel.
The House Speaker is elected at the start of every new Congress by a simple majority of the Representatives-elect, meaning 218 votes in the 435-member body. As noted, the GOP stands to have 214 seats come January. Ocasio-Cortez’s Squad will have five with the addition of Cori Bush of Missouri’s 1st District. Ten if you count all successful candidates backed by Justice Democrats. The votes are there to be had.
Ocasio-Cortez is in open war with her party and hasn’t committed to supporting Pelosi for the job, while Justice Democrats have taken direct aim at Pelosi’s failed leadership. Few politicians since Washington have voluntarily refused power and rebuffing Republican overtures would mean passing on the chance to go from bartender to House Speaker in a mere four years. As Speaker, she would achieve in that short timespan what Bernie Sanders has sought for four decades in public office — actual congressional votes on socialist ideas.
The downside is, with perhaps only Pelosi as the exception, modern Speakers rarely stick around long and rarely end on a high note. However, Ocasio-Cortez has signaled such a risk may be of no concern, as she’s supposedly unsure about remaining in politics at all. It may not be likely she accepts, but it’s also no guarantee she declines. And if she does, what criticism could be worse than ‘Republicans are Nazis?’
