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Is AOC's deplorable Iron Dome move a shift for the Democrats?
2021-09-26
[JPost] This week, Democratic Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Betty McCollum
...D-MinneapolisSt. Paul, Democratic House Whip, seriously Progressive former social studies teacher...
pressured the Democratic party to remove $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system from a bill to keep the US government-funded. This is a particularly sinister move. These funds were intended to replenish Israel’s stock of these defensive receptors that protect our civilian populations and were depleted when Hamas fired 5,000 missiles and rockets at our towns in May. (Democratic leadership announced later in the day it will bring to the House floor a stand-alone vote on $1 billion in emergency funding for Iron Dome.)

This move followed Ocasio-Cortez’s introduction last week of an amendment to the US defense budget bill which would suspend the transfer of $735 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) to Israel. JDAMs are kits that convert unguided bombs into precision-guided munitions.
Posted by:Frank G

#16  Even Judas was eventually ashamed he took the money
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-09-26 18:23  

#15  Thanks, tw. I interpret that as Mom Nancy telling little AOC to knock it off before she scares the big-money donors. The sobbing is amusing, but I get it - to be caught between your 'principles' and money... *shudder*
Posted by: SteveS   2021-09-26 15:41  

#14  I'm curious as to what made AOC change her vote from "no" to 'present'

I understand she had a direct order from Nancy Pelosi. But the New York Times had a different take, according to Jewish Journal (I avoid giving the New York Times et al any clicky attention if I can avoid it):

The New York Times appeared to remove a line from a September 23 article stating that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had changed her vote from “no” to “present” on the Iron Dome funding bill because of “influential lobbyists and rabbis.”

The article stated that Ocasio-Cortez “tearfully” decided to change her vote after a meeting with her fellow Squad members, which the article initially said “underscored how wrenching the vote was for even outspoken progressives, who have been caught between their principles and the still powerful pro-Israel voices in their party, such as influential lobbyists and rabbis.” It was subsequently changed to say that the matter “underscored how wrenching the vote was for even outspoken progressives, who have been caught between their principles and the still powerful pro-Israel voices in their party.” As of this writing, the article does not provide an editor’s note explaining the change.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-09-26 13:06  

#13  I'm curious why a first world nation like Israel still needs foreign funding for Iron Dome. It is no longer in development is it?

Iron Dome seems like something you'd want protected from the whims of the Democrats who take power in the USA from time to time.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2021-09-26 13:01  

#12  She's just sad more jews won't be killed
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-09-26 12:02  

#11  Classic role reversal as crazy drunk schools bartender.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-26 11:26  

#10  The moron is an actress. A B-lister in 'Hollywood for Ugly People.'

She's another version of Megan Markle -- BU / Washington instead of Northwestern/Hollywood. Same shtick. Same grift.
Posted by: Faux Drapeau   2021-09-26 11:22  

#9  I laughed at AOC's blubbering, but it occurs to me that blubbering is how she communicates with her base. If she had stepped to the podium and offered three good reasons not to fund Iron Dome, she would have exceeded her followers' twenty-second attention span and none of them would have remembered a word of it anyway. But now they know that those mean men made AOC cry.
Posted by: Matt   2021-09-26 11:16  

#8  She read somewhere that most of Bath House Barry's votes as a state legislator were "present" and decided to give it a whirl.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-26 10:51  

#7  I'm curious as to what made AOC change her vote from "no" to 'present' on something she was obviously excited about. Did evil Nancy Pelosi make our plucky heroine cry?

As for Minneapolis/St Paul, they are known locally as the Twin Cities.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-09-26 10:35  

#6  Just to confirm Lord Garth's point - McCollum is the rep. for the 4th district (St. Paul) and the Muslim for the 5th District (Minneapolis).
Posted by: Raj   2021-09-26 10:00  

#5  Marxist took over education, now expect anti-semitism to get much worse in Democratic Party.
Posted by: Kofi Panda2845   2021-09-26 04:19  

#4  Lord Garth's probably right as far as specific congressional districts are concerned; I'm just saying I've always remembered both cities being mentioned in the same breath - Minneapolis / St. Paul. A distinction without a difference, in other words.
Posted by: Raj   2021-09-26 00:41  

#3  I’ll correct it. We pride ourselves on getting things right, here at Rantburg. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-09-26 00:35  

#2  Minny / St. Paul - same difference, right?
Posted by: Raj   2021-09-26 00:28  

#1  McCollum's district is mostly St Paul, not Minneapolis
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-09-26 00:19  

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