OPINION: AOC, Statesmanship at its Finest

Sub­mit­ted by George McClellan

Our sys­tem of high­er edu­ca­tion­al is in total dis­ar­ray and Alexan­der Oca­sio Cortez (AOC) is proof of that! She’s a func­tion­al fool. It was explained to me as a youth that I should avoid offer­ing opin­ions until I knew all the facts because it was always bet­ter to be ‘thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.’ Well, AOC just con­firmed that — once again.

She came to the Con­gress as an elect­ed Rep­re­sen­ta­tive from the Bronx, NYC, bear­ing as her cre­den­tials a vast knowl­edge of the human con­di­tion gleaned we may sup­pose, from her short career as a bar­tender and pole dancer. She boasts hav­ing a Bach­e­lors Degree in Eco­nom­ics, a sub­ject of which she is demon­stra­bly unfa­mil­iar. Actu­al­ly, her his­to­ry is not one of pover­ty and strug­gle but, rather one of high­er upper mid­dle class priv­i­lege. The Bronx was nev­er her home. Now, she opines on US Supreme Court deci­sions she thinks are wrong not because she knows bet­ter but because they don’t fit her Left­ist nar­ra­tive. We can see the prob­lem here, while she is undoubt­ed­ly schooled, she’s une­d­u­cat­ed and basi­cal­ly doesn’t under­stand that the Supreme Court is a stand alone sep­a­rate branch of gov­ern­ment, equal with the Con­gress and the Admin­is­tra­tion (Pres­i­den­cy). Except for the US Sen­ate’s role of “Advise and Con­sent” approv­ing pres­i­den­tial appointees, includ­ing Supreme Court Jus­tices, the Con­gress has absolute­ly no say in what or how the Supreme Court Jus­tices arrive at their deci­sions. The rest of us know, or should, that courts are to make their deci­sions based upon the law and tem­pered one way or anoth­er by prece­dents set by pri­or deci­sions, often wrong ones, made in the past. But, they are not sup­posed to set laws sim­ply to sat­is­fy the fash­ion­able social trends of the moment, like abor­tion pills to get around the Roe vs Wade deci­sion, trans­gen­ders in wom­en’s sports, a vio­la­tion of Title IX. It’s Con­gress’s job to make the laws, not the courts and those laws Con­gress do make still must com­port to the will of the Constitution.

In her mind, AOC believes that when a court “loos­es its foot­ing, the insti­tu­tion must go.” That doesn’t apply of course, to the near use­less insti­tu­tion that Con­gress has become of which she is a squeaky part. It is her staunch opin­ion that: “At the very least, a court’s influ­ence must be cur­tailed with­in the polit­i­cal sys­tem.” Well, that kills the Con­sti­tu­tion right there, doesn’t it? But for the fool AOC, it removes all doubts. Instead of try­ing to sway pub­lic opin­ion she expects the courts to “bend to the will of the state to pre­vent any loss of influ­ence and make deci­sion that sup­port the (Left’s) favorite polit­i­cal nar­ra­tive.” They would sing a dif­fer­ent tune if Con­ser­v­a­tives were the pri­ma­ry par­ty of influ­ence, wouldn’t they?

We’ve watched in hor­ror, as the Dept. of Jus­tice was turned into put­ty in the hands of clev­er­er politi­cians than AOC includ­ing the Pen­ta­gon and the intel­li­gence agen­cies as well. But those agen­cies belong to the admin­is­tra­tion and hap­pi­ly do not share the sta­tus as an equal branch of gov­ern­ment. Only the Supreme Court does, remain­ing strong and imper­vi­ous to pub­lic opin­ion hence, their life­time appoint­ments which is the very point of the Supreme Court. It should not bend to what soci­ety wants, but inter­pret the law as it was writ­ten, not what AOC thinks it should be. If its the peo­ple’s will then its to the Con­gress that the peo­ple should peti­tion through their elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives. That’s what makes Amer­i­ca, for now, a Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Repub­lic not a Com­mu­nist dictatorship.

It is AOC’s “Twit­ter” opin­ion, it is “our con­sti­tu­tion­al duty to reign in and impeach Supreme Court jus­tices for rul­ings we don’t like.” While she employs the Con­sti­tu­tion, she fails to point out the sec­tion that gives her that author­i­ty. She’s tak­ing aim at Jus­tice Clarence Thomas  of course, the black thorn in the side of Pro­gres­sives stu­pid­i­ty. AOC, into her sec­ond term, appar­ent­ly hasn’t real­ized yet that she swore an oath to uphold the Con­sti­tu­tion. If she doesn’t believe it, then she lied to her con­stituents. “The non­par­ti­san Cen­ter for Effec­tive Law­mak­ing, a joint project by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia and Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty, assigned leg­isla­tive effec­tive­ness scores to each mem­ber of Con­gress based on more than a dozen met­rics, includ­ing the num­ber of bills a law­mak­er spon­sored and how far each of those bills advanced through the leg­isla­tive process. New York — Rep. Alexan­dria Oca­sio-Cortez was one of the least effec­tive law­mak­ers in Con­gress over the past two years, rank­ing 230th out of 240 Demo­c­ra­t­ic mem­bers, a new study found.” How about that?

Sad­ly, we now learn that AOC may have added thiev­ery to her resume of polit­i­cal accom­plish­ments alleged­ly hav­ing stolen thou­sands of cam­paign dol­lars to sup­ple­ment her per­son­al life style. The infor­ma­tion comes from the Fed­er­al Elec­tion Com­mis­sion that reports more than $9,600 of cred­it card expen­di­tures by the Con­gress­woman unac­com­pa­nied by any infor­ma­tion regard­ing the offi­cial pur­pose of the spend­ing. That’s a “no, no” for sure and a vio­la­tion of Congress’s rules on eth­i­cal con­duct. In short, it’s called steal­ing! In fact she is being accused of 77 counts of ille­gal use of cam­paign funds and 99 counts of wire fraud. Sad, very sad. Can we expect the FBI to jump on this? Naw, don’t bet on it!

Remem­ber, free­dom is the goal, the Con­sti­tu­tion is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (22Apr23)