Already Moving On

For John, BLUF:  US Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sees the Impeachment of President Trump as just a step along the Socialist path she wishes to tread.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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AOC already bored with impeachment:  'I'm over it'

From The Washington Examiner, by Reporter Kerry Picket, 4 October 2019.

Here is the lede plus four:

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told constituents at a town hall that she was tired of her party's current efforts to impeach President Trump, saying it's only the first step in a broader societal overhaul.

“I think the whole thing is boring," Ocasio-Cortez, 29, said Thursday at the Queens Library event.  "He should have been impeached a long time ago.  I'm over it.  And so that's how I feel about it because we've got work to do.”

Ocasio-Cortez is a breakout star of the House Democratic freshman class, which helped give the party its first majority in eight years.  She got to Congress by beating a member of the House Democratic leadership in her 2018 primary challenge.

She's been a forceful advocate of impeaching Trump, long before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her blessing to an impeachment inquiry effort over the president's interactions with Ukraine's leaders, which critics say aimed to use government resources to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

"Impeachment of this president is the short-term action we need to preserve our democracy," Ocasio-Cortez said at the town hall.  "But if we are really going to thrive as a country, we need to make long-term investments and keep our eyes on the prize of social and economic and racial justice in the United States of America.  And that's what this is all about.”

The distinguished Woman from New York City seems to believe that redemption and a perfect life is to be had here on earth, if we only turn our lives over to the Government.

Good luck with that.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff