Cori Bush is Important Enough

[Newman]

It hit me this morning that Rep. Bush's explanation of why she deserves private security reminds me of Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmation.

Ms Bush is doubtless a stellar graduate of our public schools, majoring in self esteem.

[Lady Marva]

It hit me this morning that Rep. Bush's explanation of why she deserves private security reminds me of Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmation.

Ms Bush is doubtless a stellar graduate of our public schools, majoring in self esteem.

Not worth listening to.

[JB]

Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmation.

Ironically, he (so to speak) went on to elected office too. LOL

[JB]

"You want me to die". These people are so tone deaf. Um, what about all those dying due to your policies? Sure, they can die, who cares, you are alive.

And get over yourself. If someone really wanted you dead, you'd be dead by now.

[80zephyr]

Wow. How do people like her get elected?

Mark

[Newman]

Not worth listening to.

Unfortunately, I have to disagree.

Chew on this NBC report (bold added):

Democrats cheer Rep. Cori Bush's eviction moratorium win, even if short-lived

Rep. Cori Bush spent three nights and three days on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, scoring a victory that may prove to be short-lived but that fellow progressives are hoping to turn into future wins.

In a Washington that has struggled to function, split not just along partisan lines but across a spectrum that has divided politicians into ever-shrinking silos, getting anything accomplished can often feel impossible.

But Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, tasted momentary victory this week when the White House relented and re-established the eviction moratorium. And progressives are using their newfound victory to push other issues, including the canceling of student debt. (On Friday, the administration announced another payment hiatus extension.)

Democrats heaped praise on Bush.

“I used to ask myself, ‘Does it matter that I’m here instead of somebody else?’ And you’ve now answered that question. It matters that you’re here, and not somebody else,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said.

Rich Luchette, a Democratic consultant and former congressional aide, said that Bush’s tactic was effective. He compared it to the sit-in on the House floor led by Rep. John Lewis over gun control after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.

“She found an innovative way to draw attention to an issue that has not been tried before,” Luchette said, noting that a sit-in had never been conducted in a chamber of Congress before Lewis did it in 2016. “I think it’s clear that protests can be an effective tactic.”

But it might not work forever. The eviction moratorium could last only days. And it’s a tactic that may not be successful again. But even those whom she was working against offered congratulations.

“Thank you for your mobilizing. For making the issue better known so that's, that's part of our system so I thank her,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

The rest of the report is a very sympathetic account of her activism and the growth of her influence in Washington.

(My favorite bit of worshipful reporting is the line, “She found an innovative way to draw attention to an issue that has not been tried before,” Luchette said, noting that a sit-in had never been conducted in a chamber of Congress before. . . Before what? Before 2016, it turns out, before [Rep. John] Lewis did it in 2016. OMG. Rep. Lewis could not be reached for comment.)

Essentially she's a bully, and bullies can travel far in soft circles.

She by herself is essentially responsible for forcing an extension to the eviction moratorium, for example. In doing so she made her bones in the "Squad," that clique of leftists powering the Democratic Party. (In her long, self-glorifying ode to herself, in the video with Andrea Mitchell, she mentioned that AOC replaced her for one night. It sort of takes the edge of her martyrdom, but it also puts her at least on a par with AOC.)

Because of her ideology, and because of her outsized influence, she's a loudmouth to whom attention must be paid. Take Excedrin.

[Newman]

Wow. How do people like her get elected?

Mark

I think I've seen her before, in the person of a very influential personage where I worked for many years.

First, she's very bright. Not well educated, mind, but very smart, and I wager with a heightened gift of "social intelligence." If she's like the person I'm remembering, she uses that talent to barter her way up through favors and obligations, knowing that people obligated to someone want that person to ascend, to share the glory in some small way, and to justify their own sycophancy.

I seem to be painting this darkly, but I'm not sure it's much different than what we call "retail politics," only leaving out the element of hard work involved. The shoes that AOC wore out campaigning for her first election, for example. I don't know Cori Bush's work habits, but I bet she doesn't stint.

The problem is two-fold. She is a bully, loud and pushy, shutting out any argument or contrary view. And her ideas are lame. Truly a product of a failed public education.

[scott]

The rest of the report is a very sympathetic account of her activism and the growth of her influence in Washington.

(My favorite bit of worshipful reporting is the line, “She found an innovative way to draw attention to an issue that has not been tried before,” Luchette said, noting that a sit-in had never been conducted in a chamber of Congress before. . . Before what? Before 2016, it turns out, before [Rep. John] Lewis did it in 2016. OMG. Rep. Lewis could not be reached for comment.)

Essentially she's a bully, and bullies can travel far in soft circles.

She by herself is essentially responsible for forcing an extension to the eviction moratorium, for example. In doing so she made her bones in the "Squad," that clique of leftists powering the Democratic Party. (In her long, self-glorifying ode to herself, in the video with Andrea Mitchell, she mentioned that AOC replaced her for one night. It sort of takes the edge of her martyrdom, but it also puts her at least on a par with AOC.)

Because of her ideology, and because of her outsized influence, she's a loudmouth to whom attention must be paid. Take Excedrin.

What this means in the DNC is that she's being given a platform to "be heard" and just like Corrine Brown is going to always get the microphone and airtime - but nobody takes her seriously. DNC people like their majority-minority flock to be loud, proud, and engaging those districts so that they can get out the vote. These Representatives get lip service, multiple platforms, and a sense of power. They get earmarks. Then when they are no longer useful, they are either put out to pasture, kept around in servitude (like Alcee Hastings), or left to their own devices so they can go to prison (like Corrine Brown).

Ms. Brown spent 3 years is prison and was released for health concerns and her second appeal was successful, but make no bones about it - she crooked. She is disgraced and she was removed from power.

I see the same path for Rep. Bush.

Cynthia McKinney had a similar status once upon a time. She was primaried by her own party and now she's in Bangladesh. Go figure.

[scott]

I think I've seen her before, in the person of a very influential personage where I worked for many years.

First, she's very bright. Not well educated, mind, but very smart, and I wager with a heightened gift of "social intelligence." If she's like the person I'm remembering, she uses that talent to barter her way up through favors and obligations, knowing that people obligated to someone want that person to ascend, to share the glory in some small way, and to justify their own sycophancy.

I seem to be painting this darkly, but I'm not sure it's much different than what we call "retail politics," only leaving out the element of hard work involved. The shoes that AOC wore out campaigning for her first election, for example. I don't know Cori Bush's work habits, but I bet she doesn't stint.

The problem is two-fold. She is a bully, loud and pushy, shutting out any argument or contrary view. And her ideas are lame. Truly a product of a failed public education.

No, she's a coddled "Achievement Congressperson," meaning that someone who got to this level is told she IS better. They and their supporters think getting to Congress is an achievement in and of itself. They think she should be honored just for getting there. That is siezed by the real power in Washington, so she's being given a platform. Her votes and favors will be the currency.

She's a useful idiot. There are plenty of them on both sides. She'll be left to her own devices in the future.

[Newman]

When hypocrisy doesn't matter, when irony sails right by, you get odd footnotes like this:

Cops fired for guarding ‘defund the police’ Dem Rep. Cori Bush without permission

Two St. Louis deputies were dismissed last month for working on progressive Rep. Cori Bush’s security detail without permission — days before the “Squad” member defended spending tens of thousands of campaign dollars on private protection while pushing to “defund the police.”

St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts told KMOV that he initially warned now-former deputies Tylance Jackson and Maurice Thompson to quit moonlighting as muscle for Bush (D-Mo.) and fill out the proper forms after they accompanied her on a tour of St. Louis jails in April. However, Betts said he was told by Veterans Affairs Police several weeks later that Jackson and Thompson were providing security for Bush again.

In addition to violating policy by not getting approval to work a secondary shift, neither Jackson nor Thompson have licenses to work private security, Betts told KMOV.

Jackson claimed Thursday that he and Thompson were dismissed because they “didn’t push the agenda of the sheriff on the client [Bush].”

“I do feel that the hand that was dealt to us was unfair and unjust,” Jackson told KMOV. “You let us go, but you still have a plethora of individuals doing that but you don’t say anything.”

Betts, a Democrat who was elected to a second four-year term as city sheriff last year, insisted to the Associated Press that the deputies were not fired because of who they were guarding.

“I didn’t fire them for working security for Cori Bush,” Betts said in a phone interview. “I fired them for not following proper procedures for working secondary. So they just happened to be working for Cori Bush. Doing what they did, they would have gotten fired no matter who they were working for.”

The sheriff added that of his 160 deputies, an estimated 150 work at other jobs — with permission.

Usually people who throw the word "plethora" into ordinary conversation are wrong. They just sound like Sylvester the Cat.

But at least they didn't call the sheriff a white supremacist.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

Usually people who throw the word "plethora" into ordinary conversation are wrong. They just sound like Sylvester the Cat.

Perhaps Ms. Bush has someone writing his lines for him.

[Lady Marva]

Rep. Cori Bush spent three nights and three days on the steps of the U.S. Capitol,

Where'd she go to the bathroom?

[scott]

Where'd she go to the bathroom?

Good question.

I'm thinking her team spent 3 days and nights on the steps and she came and went as her duties required, including a few 8-12 hour sessions at her house.

You know how these people are, they are gestures only.