No matter how much the media wants to distract away from the Democrat infighting between “The Squad” and Botox Drunk Nancy Pelosi, they will never be successful. Quietly, ignored by most of the Democrat media complex, establishment Democrats are still really pissed off at Ocasio-Cortez and her Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti. Cowardly, anonymous Democrats are even calling for Ocasio-Cortez to fire Saikat Chakrabarti. I’ll begrudgingly give Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff some credit here. Good for him for standing up to the establishment hacks in the Democrats. They are really no better than the establishment hacks in the GOP.
| Democrats still really pissed about Ocasio-Cortez and Saikat Chakrabarti |
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Chakrabarti’s outspoken style — combined with his history fighting to topple incumbent Democrats deemed too conservative to bear the party brand — has made him a target of fierce new scrutiny while raising questions about his longevity on Capitol Hill.
“Do I think AOC’s chief of staff needs to be fired? Of course I do,” said a moderate Democratic lawmaker. “Who is in charge in that office? Is she unable to fire him for his racist comments?”
Another Democratic lawmaker added: “My chief would have the honor to resign” if he tweeted those things.
Chakrabarti is a “snot-nosed punk” who doesn’t have a clue about the liberal battles the grizzled 79-year-old Speaker has led over the years, former Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), who served under Pelosi as head of the House Democratic Caucus and campaign arm, said in an interview with The New York Times.
Neither Chakrabarti nor Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman responded to a request for comment on Monday.
Verbal spats between members of Congress have become almost a daily occurrence in the Capitol — especially in the age of Twitter.
But a senior Democratic aide said it was “unheard of” for a chief of staff — or any Hill staffer — to repeatedly and publicly launch broadsides against lawmakers in their own party without any consequences. In 2013, then-Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise (R-La.) fired his executive director, Paul Teller, for working with conservative groups to pressure Republicans to oppose the budget deal spearheaded by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.).
The Democratic aide echoed the moderate lawmaker, suggesting that Chakrabarti has not been reprimanded by Ocasio-Cortez because he and his group, Justice Democrats, helped propel the former New York bartender to victory last year and he’s the one pulling the strings in her office.
“I have never seen a staffer insult multiple members multiple times and keep his job. It’s unheard of,” the aide added.