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AOC launches bid for 'profound and consequential' role as top Dem on House Oversight panel
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this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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How horrible, somebody trying to do something positive.
Not denying, fighting against the reality. I dare say you haven't seen any videos of her in committees asking the pointed questions that are normally glossed over. You can certainly argue about effectiveness, but if no one tries to make a difference, it will absolutely go the direction it's going.
What do you suggest our represenatives do as an alternative? Give up? Say and do nothing for 4 years?
As painful and exasperating of a job it's going to be, we still need idealists like AOC to go and do their best, even while in the minority.
Your right! Give up, try nothing.
Jill Stein voter, perhaps?
*You're
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She's not a centrist, so she's not preemptively capitulating.