Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is DEM's Worse Nightmare: She Should Shut Her Yap ASAP or Sooner

She seeks constant Microphone and Media Attention 24/7

(A grand stander above all else)

CBS News update on the whole Ukraine-Trump scandal, and the main post today follows that:

Trump admitted on Sunday (September 22, 2019) that he in fact did discuss Joe Biden in a phone call with newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, July 24, 2019. 

He seemingly is confirming reports that he discussed a potential investigation into a domestic political opponent with a foreign leader.

Trump told reporters at the White House before departing on a trip to Texas: “The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, with largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place and largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son [contributing] to the corruption already in the Ukraine.”

The president's admission about his conversation about Biden with the current Ukrainian president is an extraordinary development in the unfolding dispute over a whistle blower complaint by a member of the intelligence community. 

The administration has refused to provide the complaint to Congress, but details about its contents have slowly emerged over the past week.

Hard facts we already know:

The Washington Post reported that Ukraine was the subject of the whistle blower complaint, which a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.

But the source also said “…Ukraine was just part of the complaint,” suggesting it included more than one element or allegation. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump urged Zelensky to investigate the Biden’s eight times.

Main post today:

WASHINGTON (USA Today) – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) added further fuel to the impeachment fire in a nighttime tweet where she said the even bigger scandal than the controversy over the “Ukraine-Trump-Biden-Congress whistle blower complaint fight” was House Democrats refusal to impeach Trump. 

Specifically she wrote: “At this point, the bigger national scandal isn't the president's lawbreaking behavior - it is the Democratic Party's refusal to impeach him for it.”

Although House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still opposes impeachment, it appears that the controversy is starting to shift the calculus for some Democrats. 

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a Sunday morning television interview on CNN's State of the Union: “We very well may have crossed the Rubicon here. If the president is essentially withholding military aid at the same time he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit...then [impeachment] might be the only remedy that is co-equal to the evil that this conduct represents.”

The growing controversy surrounds that August whistle blower complaint by a U.S. intelligence community official and ongoing efforts by Democrats to learn more about Trump's contacts with Ukraine. 

Democrats have demanded access to the whistle blower complaint as the Acting DNI and his IG and the AG are all stonewalling. 

My 2 cents: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez should just STFU. 

All she has done to date and from day-one is to keep her face in the news cycles anyway that she can. The more outrageous and bizarre the better for her (she thinks).

But, now saying the DEMS are worse than Trump is despicable and way over the common sense line. 

If it were my choice, I’d have the whole DEM House ensure her. 

Short of that, I hope she gets several mainstream, level-headed DEMS to run against her in 2020. She need not be in Congress.

Speaker Pelosi must act now because Ocasio-Cortez is bad news for the DEMS and her views could spread in a very bad way.

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