When asked by reporters if Schumer should remain the minority leader, Ocasio-Cortez responded: "I think what is so important for folks to understand is that this problem is bigger than one person. And it actually is bigger than the minority leader in the Senate. You had eight Senate Democrats who coordinated…their own votes on this as well as you have two retiring members, many of them who are also up in several cycles from now, with the hope that people are going to forget this moment
The New York lawmaker added, “A leader is a reflection of the party, and Senate Democrats have selected their leadership to represent them. And so, the question needs to be bigger than just one person. We have several Senate primaries this cycle—I know I’m being asked about New York, that is years from now—I have to remind my own constituents because they think that this election is this year. We actually do have Senate elections this year, and my hope is that people across this country actually participate in their primary elections and selecting their leadership.”
Schumer’s leadership has come under fire following a pivotal Senate vote in which eight Democrats joined Republicans to end the government shutdown, defying his recommendations. Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, was among those openly stating, “Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.”
If a politician doesn’t explicitly say yes in response to a direct question I wouldn’t interpret that as a yes, nor would I expect anyone to interpret that as such. Thats how they operate.
Her answer was insightful enough to know that Schumer leaving could mean you just get Schumer 2.0. The problem is bigger than one person. Schumer should go, yeah, but more importantly—the problem (of which Schumer is a manifestation) should go. Fight for change, not a facade thereof.
What if the response in stead of saying “Yes” to “should Chuck Schumer be removed?” actually tells people how to accomplish it? Still doesn’t count as a “Yes”?
Shes one of the people who has the power to do it, and yet she refuses to say she’d do it.
If im a fireman and you ask me if im gonna put out a fire in your house and instead of saying yes I tell you how a fire extinguisher works, you gonna assume that means I’m gonna help you put it out?
She’s in the House, Schumer is in the Senate. It’d be like asking a fireman to put out a fire while he and his truck are two counties over, and complaining when they tell you to get help from your local fire station instead.
Or like asking an EMT to help you put out a fire, and when they point out they’re an EMT, indignantly scoffing and calling them a “spineless establishment first responder.”
I don’t see how she has that power.
The key here is she can’t do it by herself. She doesn’t have the votes.
The better analogy would be if you were the fireman organizing the bucket brigade.
Only for people who can fit their whole brains into 140 characters