Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a gift, plain and simple. Time and time again, AOC has dissected Republican arguments and distilled them to their core: they are not based in fact and they are not helping the American people.
Case in point, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who took to floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday to unveil a series of childish full-color images and statements mocking the Green New Deal co-sponsored by Ocasio-Cortez. Apparently wanting to urgently act to curb the damaging effects of climate change, which are an increasing threat to both the economic health of the nation and the overall health of humans in general, is something for Republicans to mock. And Sen. Lee did just that. Example:
He also used graphics of Ronald Reagan riding a velociraptor and other nonsensical graphics, wasting the public’s time to mock AOC’s Green New Deal. Charming, no?
The core of Lee’s argument was that climate change is an “elitist issue” So, how does the congresswoman from the Bronx respond? Perfectly. Every second of it. WATCH:
She’s amazing, right? She didn’t stop in the committee. She kept going on Twitter and she went scorched earth on both Mike Lee and Republican climate change games, saying “If this guy can be senator, you can do anything.”
She also nailed their hypocrisy.
And when Mitch McConnell and the Senate tried to box Democrats in, she fought back as well.
She brought up the billions lost, businesses lost, lives lost due to flooding in the Midwest.
She saved some of her harshest commentary for Mitch McConnell:
“The Senate vote is a perfect example of that kind of superficial approach to government,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Tuesday. “What McConnell’s doing is that he’s trying to rush this bill to the floor without a hearing, without any markups, without working through committee — because he doesn’t want to save our planet. Because he thinks we can drink oil in 30 years when all our water is poisoned.”
Thank you, AOC. I can see the flood waters rising from my home here in Kansas City. She speaks for me and she is precisely the kind of serious leader we need to tackle such a monumentally dangerous issue for human kind. We need more people like her.