I admit that in several threads I have suggested that AOC is a relatively junior person who is being blown out of proportion by conservatives looking for a new villain. Yesterday I started to think I might be wrong. There is some substance there.
This op-ed in today’s New York Times reinforced my assessment while watching AOC question Cohen yesterday. While most people on both sides of the aisle played to the gallery, she focused a series of questions on Cohen, building each question on the previous answer and getting on the record exactly who needs to be questioned to follow up on several of the financial crimes Cohen alleged Donald Trump had committed.
By not spending half here time making a speech about how awful the hearing was, and by asking clearly focused questions that did not require she cut off the answer to give herself more time, Ocasio-Cortez.
I kept thinking afterwards how if everyone, on both sides of the aisle had displayed the focus and discipline that she did that would have been one heck of hearing.
She laid the groundwork for going after Trump’s tax and financials, including local property taxes.
She got the names of who should be asked the embarrassing followup questions and laid the groundwork for them to testify.
She laid the groundwork for further investigate the claims in the NYT that the Trump family vastly undervalued properties in the Trump senior estate to cheat the tax man and got the name of the person that would have information relevant to that.
I had serious questions about her early on. I figured conservatives elevated her to stardom status because they really, really, really needed someone to mock
I’ve since come to believe that they are mortally terrified of her. She plays their game better than she does.
And yesterday, she kicked ■■■■■■■ ass. Not Cohen’s ass. Not the asses of the Trumpists on the committee.
She kicked Donald Trump’s ass. To his face.
Yes, the other side of riducle and anger is fear. Conservatives fear of her is warranted. She showed that yesterday.
We saw the same cleverness when she has that long inquiry into how “if she was a bad guy” how she could do all sorts of stuff with lobbyists and money in Congress and it would all be totally legal. She got that all in the Congressional Record.
She was absolutely brilliant in her five minutes. She honed in on the target and didn’t let up. Compared to some of the R’s who did nothing but tear at Cohen she sounded intelligent as opposed to weak.
She’s an idiot
She’s stupid
She’s bug eyed
She has horse teeth
To be serious, she did a great job during the hearing. I was really impressed that she approached Cohen to bring to the light Trump’s tax returns and how Congress should be reviewing them.
The flaccid GOP is literally ■■■■■■■■ their pants over AOC.
I guess this thing called CPAC is happening at the moment. It’s where a bunch of Trumpist losers are gathering and pretending to be “conservative”. They have grifters like Cubic Zirconia and Canvas as guest speakers - really hard-hitting policy debate happening there.
Anyway, I guess they have been showing a LOT of video of AOC. The old codgers just can’t get enough of that hottie.
Some Republicans can use a few misstatements in interviews against her if they want, but she has repeatedly shown herself to be an effective, intelligent communicator for whom the sky is the limit. She doesn’t need to make speeches in these hearings to try to make a name for herself. She does so with pointed questions that cut to the heart of the important issues.
