- is aiming squarely for the ditch. Just a thought.
Just a few weeks into the new Congress, Ocasio-Cortez is already causing heartburn among centrist Democrats who are wary of her unapologetic proposal to raise the top marginal income tax rate to 70 per cent.
The current top rate is 37 per cent. That applies to an earner's income after the first $600,000. Ocasio-Cortez's plan would start applying the 70 per cent rate after the first $10 million.
Lieberman said Thursday that she's too 'left-left' to help the Democratic Party be a sustainable political powerhouse.
Veteran Democratic members suspected Ocasio-Cortez was behind a sizable online campaign to convince Speaker Nancy Pelosi to give her the plum appointment.
And she is expected to loudly advocate for Democratic primary campaigns against some of the middle-of-the-road members of her own party in Congress.
'New party, who dis?' Ocasio-Cortez mocks aging Joe Lieberman for hoping 'she's not the future' | Daily Mail Online
She's a younger female version of Bernie Sanders, and look how far he has gotten.
She hasn't gotten very far, other than beating an incumbent by "out lefting" him in district dingbat central and enjoying some time as Washington's shiny, new boy toy, she has yet to accomplish anything of substance.
… on the bright side, she is kinda hot so grabbing attention away from all the other shameless whores we send to Washington should prove relatively easy for her.
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You go girl!"