The freshman reps in the House are shaking up DC…..and the “old guard”….the old farts in leadership cannot figure out what to do….the people want answers and the donors want things to stay the same after all it is their money that is making these old farts into party leaders……

Of course the conserv writers that push the BS from the GOP are all over trying to lessen the newbies influence……

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been called everything from a “little girl” and “liberal darling” to someone who “comes across like she is 16 years old.” She’s been accused of making her voice sound younger, of seeming “to lack even a modest helping of guile,” and not looking “like a girl who struggles.” Male columnists have been eager to offer unsolicited advice, telling her to slow down and “get some authority before she tries to use it.” The Wall Street Journal recently reduced the 29-year-old representative to someone “whose claim to fame is winning one election, looking cool on Instagram, and proposing ways to spend other people’s money.” And after President Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this month, one of the paper’s columnists, Peggy Noonan, tweeted that Ocasio-Cortez appeared “not spirited, warm and original” but rather, “sullen, teenaged and at a loss.”

Not only was Noonan’s comment textbook sexism — she all but told Ocasio-Cortez to smile — it also wreaked of the same condescending, ageist tone that has followed the political firebrand since she defeated a longtime male incumbent in last year’s primary. What was Ocasio-Cortez expected to do: Look older? Less teenaged? Why was the onus on her — one of many Democrats displeased by Trump’s rhetoric — to play the part of polite young lady, a nice, good girl, when the President drummed up fears about immigrants and claimed that the U.S economy could suffer if investigations into his campaign continue?

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/02/223549/millennial-congresswomen-changing-washington-dc

Personally I love these new Congresswomen for they are showing that they have the ‘nads that their male counterparts do not possess.

Recently Sen Feinstein has shown the contempt that donor money can buy…….

Sen. Dianne Feinstein disagreed with a group of schoolchildren over climate change Friday and saw a video of the tense exchange hit the Internet, CNN reports. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing,” Feinstein tells the dozen-or-so children and several adults who met with her in San Francisco. “You come in here and you say, ‘It has to be my way or the highway.’ I don’t respond to that.” The group was urging her to change her mind and back the Green New Deal, a progressive plan to limit climate change over the next decade. “There’s no way to pay for it,” says Feinstein, which prompts a girl to respond: “We have tons of money going to the military.” The California Democrat then reminds the children that they’re up against a GOP-led Senate, per the New York Times.

“That resolution will not pass the Senate, and you can take that back to whoever sent you here and tell them,” she says. The tension mounts when a woman in the group says Feinstein is “looking at the faces of the people who will be living with these consequences,” and the senator soon retorts, “I was elected by almost a million-vote plurality, and I know what I’m doing. So, you know, maybe people should listen to me a little bit.” The video was posted by the Sunrise Movement, which urges young people to get involved in climate-change advocacy. The movement’s leader, Varshini Prakash, calls Feinstein “out of touch” and says the Democrats need “fundamental change.” For her part, Feinstein issued a statement saying she heard the children “loud and clear.”

She heard loud and clear my ass! She is just trying to tamp down the blow back from her condescending treatment of concerned teenagers.

Feinstein did what the highly paid “Old Guard” does…….treat future voters as minor irritants and ignore as much as possible…..

Not a god idea…….for ion a few years they will be voting and they will remember the treatment from reps like Feistein……

Speaking of teenagers the future voters……..what is their biggest concerns?

If the 2018 US midterm elections are any indicator, a bigger share of teenagers will show up to the polls in 2020 than in the past.

Politicians looking for their votes would do well to look at a recent Pew Research Center poll that asked American teens about their goals, priorities and struggles. Not all of respondents will be voting age by 2020, but their answers provide a list of issues the many presidential hopefuls should be paying attention to.

https://qz.com/1556019/what-do-american-teenagers-care-about/

Notice anything?

Not one of the people in the GOP is talking about any of the issues the teenagers care about…….not to worry…..the Dems have a limited amount of concern for these issues as well……only Bernie is out front…the others will embrace or lose the votes….