{"id":34123,"date":"2018-12-09T22:28:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34123"},"modified":"2018-12-09T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:28:13","slug":"let-the-socialist-congresswoman-learn-her-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34123","title":{"rendered":"Let the socialist congresswoman learn her way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexandriacoasiocortez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34124\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexandriacoasiocortez-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexandriacoasiocortez-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alexandriacoasiocortez.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am amused and slightly baffled at all the attention a rookie member of the next Congress getting.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez is the talk of D.C. Democrats love her; Republicans ridicule her. She&#8217;s a Democrat, having knocked off a well-known member of her own party&#8217;s congressional leadership in the New York state primary, then cruising to election this past month.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez is 29 years of age. She&#8217;s a socialist, at least that&#8217;s what she calls herself. GOP foes are equating that to her being the daughter of Satan.<\/p>\n<p>Her entry onto the national stage hasn&#8217;t gone all that well. She has made a gaffe or two along the way. Democrats are giving her a pass; Republicans are, um, ridiculing her. Oh, I already said that last part.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez is a freshman lawmaker. She hasn&#8217;t developed any kind of congressional record on which to pass judgment. I intend to wait to see how she matures on the job. Maybe she&#8217;ll learn the difference between the various branches of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>As for this fascination with her, Democrats need to cool their jets; Republicans, meanwhile, need to quit piling on. They have enough troubles within their <em>own<\/em> party to make them squirm.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am amused and slightly baffled at all the attention a rookie member of the next Congress getting. Ocasio-Cortez is the talk of D.C. Democrats love her; Republicans ridicule her. She&#8217;s a Democrat, having knocked off a well-known member of her own party&#8217;s congressional leadership in the New York state primary, then cruising to election &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the socialist congresswoman learn her way<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8199,849,1112,1343,3917,4302],"class_list":["post-34123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-alexandrea-ocasio-cortez","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-republicans","tag-socialist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34125,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123\/revisions\/34125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}