Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to choke down the bitter pill of the Senate version of the border security bill when she flip-flopped on her resistance and defied the most radical elements of her own caucus in order to get some sort of deal into place before Congress blows town on their latest extended vacation.
With Democrats having stumbled into a trap of their own making with the lurid media sensationalism of a dead migrant and his young daughter who were found floating face down in the Rio Grande River, it was no longer possible for the official leader of the party to defy calls to address the worsening humanitarian crisis by turning up her nose at President Trump and Mitch McConnell’s $4.5 billion package without risking serious political fallout.
So like the sometimes pragmatic career politician that she is, Nervous Nancy held her nose and backed down on insisting on changes to the bill which sailed through the GOP-controlled Senate 84-8 with an attention-grabbing amount of bipartisan support.
Breaking News: Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to pass the Senate's border aid bill without restrictions. It was a stinging defeat after a show of Democratic disunity. https://t.co/fUetEyeQvJ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 27, 2019
While Pelosi had to concede ground in the hope of only picking fights that she could win, the capitulation infuriated the most extreme elements of the radicalized socialist faction of the party which included the haughty egomaniac Twitter revolutionary Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who continues to place herself on a collision course with her befuddled elder.
Fresh off of a star-making stop on the Hate Show Late Show With Stephen Colbert and backing of a successful albeit cruel employee revolt at furniture giant Wayfair that was able to deprive some of those poor, persecuted children in the concentration camps detention facilities at the border of beds, the socialist Diva snatched up her iPhone and blew her stack.
Under no circumstances should the House vote for a McConnell-only bill w/ no negotiation with Democrats. Hell no.
That’s an abdication of power we should refuse to accept. They will keep hurting kids if we do.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 27, 2019
0 negotiation with the House. We offered crucial amendments to protect children and families – none are even being considered.
A minority is different than a majority. And while the Senate has to deal with its lack of power there, a House majority should have a seat @ the table.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 27, 2019
We have time. We can stay in town. We can at LEAST add some amendments to this Senate bill. But to pass it completely unamended with no House input? That seems a bridge too far.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 27, 2019
The knives are now going to really be out for Pelosi after she worked to accommodate the unreasonable demands of the freshman Justice Democrat socialists who despite her efforts, publicly humiliated her when AOC and her posse immediately ran to the media to announce their mutiny on the House bill which once again rubbed the septuagenarian’s face into a steaming hot mess of her own making.
The four House Democrats who voted against the border funding bill https://t.co/r5Z1N2iKTx pic.twitter.com/BqiHn8DEkP
— The Hill (@thehill) June 26, 2019
It may still be a week until the Fourth Of July but thanks to AOC and the insurgents, the fireworks have already been set off and the Twitter mob will soon be demanding the Pelosi be burned at the stake.
