Rep. William Lacy Clay leveled Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her ‘squad’ for resorting to using the race card in their feud with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Clay (D-MO), who has served in the House for nearly two decades, slammed her comments as “inappropriate” and “weak.” He also noted making such arguments shows a certain level of ignorance for this nation’s past when it comes to real racism.
“It was such a weak argument to say she was being picked on and that four women of color were being picked on by the speaker,” he said. “It tells you the level of ignorance to American history on their part as to what we are as the Democratic Caucus.”
Clay’s bold comments show a Democrat party further fracturing due to Ocasio-Cortez’ willingness to attack everyone in her party with petulant temper tantrums when she doesn’t get her way.
Rep. Lacy Clay just unloaded on @AOC , her chief of staff and Justice Democrats in the Speaker’s Lobby, calls them “juvenile,” says “their ignorance is beyond belief”: “You’re getting push back so you resort to using the race card? Unbelievable.”
— Jonathan Easley (@JonEasley) July 11, 2019
Squad v. Pelosi
It’s become quite clear that establishment Democrats are tired of AOC’s games.
Pelosi initially mocked Ocasio-Cortez and her squad – consisting of Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) – for voting against a bipartisan border funding bill and being unable to get anyone to join them in their resistance vote.
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“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following,” she quipped.
Ocasio-Cortez responded, not with a coherent rebuttal but rather, by playing the race card.
“It was just outright disrespectful,” the New York Democrat fumed. “The explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
Clay Unleashed
Clay wasn’t through with his insults for Ocasio-Cortez and her freshman colleagues.
“Their ignorance is beyond belief,” he said.
“It is so inappropriate. So uncalled for. It does not do anything to help with unity. It was unfair to Speaker Pelosi,” Clay added.
Now, we’re all with you on the ignorance part, but unfair might be a stretch. After all, outrage over a Democrat using the race card rings a bit hollow since every member of the party has resorted to that argument against Republicans in the past. You’re really just upset because she used it against one of your own.
“It’s going to take a process of maturing for those freshman members. They will have to learn to be effective legislators,” he said. “It shows their lack of sensitivity to racism. To fall back on that (trope) is a weak argument. It has no place in a civil discussion.”
If the GOP were smart, they’d cut a clip of those comments and use them going forward every time the left pulls out false claims of racism.
More Venom for AOC
It should be noted that Clay’s public shaming of AOC could be the result of her supporting his opponent in the last primary.
He has also called her out in the past for being loud-mouthed and ignorant when it came to criticizing other Democrats, referring to her as “petty” and lacking in maturity and political acumen.
She’s tearing apart the resistance party and four more years of Trump are virtually assured. @AOC is the best thing that ever happened for @realDonaldTrump.
— Rusty Weiss 🇺🇸 (@rustyweiss74) July 11, 2019
That pettiness, juvenile mindset, and lack of acumen period, let alone political acumen, is going to continue to tear apart the Democrat party. Trump’s re-election chances look better and better each day, and one of the biggest reasons is going to be this New Yorker’s willingness to tear down everybody who doesn’t agree with her.
She’s the best thing that could have happened to the Trump 2020 team.
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AOC can dish it out, but she can’t take it. She’s a little liberal baby who should be gone after the next election, along with her 3 “cry baby” girlfriends!
What conservative in their right mind would want to break up the Fraud Squad? Let the Democrats rally around these four, please. Cement the party to the message and let the country know what the message is.
Weird that he’s NEVER said that when it was leveled at a conservative!
When you have no conscious like AOC you become a blob of worthless flesh that
is of no value to humanity. The rotting stench you are making in congress prove
the point.
Get rid of this piece of %hit and send her back to the Middle East where she can spew hatred and find up dead !
Demonic Party in imploding on themselves.. its fun to watch how Occasional-Cotex assaults Piglousy..
I bet my life savings the old farts in congress are trying to figure out how to get rid of Omar the Magnificent, Occasional-Cotex and Tlaib the Halal slab or rotting meat..
this coming Primary.. I do believe they have had enough of their crap..
Libs just keep strengthening the Rep Party with their antics Keep it up Dems We Republicans are loving this!!
When you have nothing of substance, call your opponent a racist.
My mammy always told me__empty vessels make the most noise. Consider how the drum is constructed and that it was chosen to be heard for miles. AOC beat 10,000 other hopefuls auditioning for the Young Turks.
Today’s Democratic Party, increasingly swallowed up by the radical left, seems to have completely lost its sanity? From the current epidemic of left wing mob violence, to the shockingly brutal and dishonest campaign to destroy Brett Kavanaugh, to open attacks on everything from border enforcement to the Electoral College, to the glorification of mental illnesses like transgenderism, to the growing demonization of white people just for being white and men just for being men, America is under siege by an internal enemy, the democrats and their liberal sycophant media allies.
Well…….at least Rep. Clay understands that this tart is a danger to their party. Going to be fun watching her destroy them for the next sixteen months.
Black Democrats are trying to out racism, Hispanic and Latino Democrats because they should know that racism only occurs against blacks. Meantime White Democrats are getting blamed by everyone. Too much diversity is not a good thing. It leads too anarchy
you’d think Nancy would just impeach her…she has the power to do so and looks like her party is sick of her as well….
Pushback. Oh, goody.
Hope the D party keeps their infighting public. The conservatives better take advantage their drama.
Yes, Nancy is losing it! I think she has the starts of Alz., and then she drinks on top of it. I’ve seen what it costs us for her to take government planes, just for the booze she can go through { now that may include family, because she takes them along when she goes over seas.} Remember last year when President Trump wouldn’t let her use a military plane for her and family to go over seas they had to take a regular flight, and we didn’t have to pay for it. I had read an article about how much it was costing us for those flights and wrote President Trump about them.
The reason I mentioned her drinking my step-mother ended up with Alz., and was a drinker, and I can guarantee you it is NOT a good thing.
The “Squad” as Pelosi calls them, is running the democrat party right now and it’s Pelosi’s own fault! She should have taken those brats out behind the proverbial woodshed and …………! She’s done it the past!! But, in my opinion, Nancy has not only lost her hold on the democrats in the House, she is slowly losing her grip on reality!!
Don’t be fooled into thinking rep Clay is a reasonable thoughtful democrat, he is hard left. He is just not as bat crap crazy as AOC.
But you have to admit that watching the party of “tolerance” eat their own is funny as hell.
“” THERE IS A FIX “”
Me, watching SanFranNan battle it out with Accidentally Occasionally Coherent.
sick of her….impeach her or put a muzzle on her….take her off committees & assign her no more……when she speaks…leave the room….
She doesn’t understand why she is so stupid! She believes her own lies. All 4 of those females need to be removed from office ASAP!!
Every time cortez or whatever’s her name opens her pie hole she creates another Trump supporter.
That would be a great idea!
Maybe we can teach them that the Democrat party is the party of slavery.
Or a bowling ball, lol!
She has a degree from Boston University which would make me leery of ever going there or recommending it to anyone. It also puts American Universities in the category of shameful that an accredited institution produces this kind ignorance. As Foghorn Leghorn would have said of her, “she’s about as sharp as a pound of wet leather.”
Hillsdale College, which accepts no government money, is thus able to teach many things which others lie about. They have many free online courses which range from the Constitution to economics. I happened to be there one time when the National Anthem was played and all the students stopped what they were doing and put there hands over their hearts. Need I say more about what they teach?
….that is where she and her kind get their ammunition. I’m 59 years old, and I have lists of historic lies told to us by our corrupt government, schools and leadership… including our uninformed parents. Pearl Harbor…lies. “Remember The Maine”…lies. WW I…lies. WW II…lies. Korea…lies. Vietnam…lies. JFK, RFK, MLK…lies. Atomic testing…& it’s effects on humans…lies. Iraq 1 & 2…lies. 911… lies. Waco…lies. OK City…lies. Benghazi…lies. IRS Targeting…lies. Spying on Trump…lies. All main-stream-media…lies. So AOC knows that citizens know our government lies, and she leverages that instinct in her own lies as she seeks to continue to gain power. When she sees a drinking fountain on top of a toilet, which probably shocked her, she uses that and develops emotion-based-lies around that shock, to try and move people into her camp. She is not very good at it. However, who is to tell us our real history as a country? Who is to unlock all those archives so that we can know the true nature of the beast all of these years?
RJ O’Guillory
Part of her problem is what the schools are teaching as the history of this country. I can’t stand AOC either, she is a big mouth. We need to get education back where it used to be, so the kids can learn the truth. Like the reasons for the monuments that they want to destroy, are there so we don’t ever make the same mistakes again.
The establishment sticks together!!
How does it feel. IGNORANCE beyond belief. The SAME can be said for Democrats WHO say it about Republicans and our PRESIDENT TRUMP!!! Why is it that many in congress want to rule and make a ONE WORLD ORDER. PEOPLE WAKE UP VOTE FOR FREEDOM AND NOT FOR DEEP STATE TYRANNIE. PUT THESE DEEP STATE CRIMINALS AND TRATORS IN GITMO OR JAIL FOR LIFE WITH OUT PAROLE!!!!! WE THE PEOPLE ARE FEDUP WITH DEM RATS AGENDAS!!!!!! STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OVER THE BORDERS WITH STRONG LAWS !! DO YOUR JOBS, STOP KICKING THIS DOWN THE ROAD LIKE ALL OF CONGRESS HAS BEEN DOING FOR 5 DECADES OR MORE!!!
I say once Trump wins by a landslide we all send her a nice big bowl of fresh cut flowers and a nice thank-you note.
Not sure there are way to many fat ladies( that sing ) that vote democratic, even dead ones…. NEVER count these lying, cheating and unscrupulous maggots out….PERIOD…
Yup! 2020 is in the bag!
As long as it’s happening it’s a good thing
The woman answered a casting call. That is how she was selected to run. She has never and does not live in the district she represents. The people who live in that district have had enough of her too.
Then there are the 21 FEC violations filed against her, one being money laundering in addition to her tweeting out times, dates and locations of ICE raids which at least for her is illegal.
The woman is beyond ignorant, she is stupid and you just can’t fix stupid.
This campaign to smear AOC is fishy.
Democrats eating their own! Pass the popcorn!