Remember a few months ago when Democrats passed over AOC as the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee in favour of a 75 year old with oesophageal cancer? Can you guess what happened next? He has stepped down 4 months later due to health complications, what a shocking turn of events, surely the old folk in the Democrats will now learn to actually pass the torch down? Instead of desperately trying to cling onto power and treating the younger Democrats like shit?
Nope!
House Democrats' Old Guard Prepares To Fight The Youth Revolt
Driving the news: Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), 70, told Axios he plans to run for the role and is clear-eyed about the outside pressure bearing down on his colleagues to choose a younger lawmaker.
- "The base is responding to social media, so they're pushing the people that they see on social media," he said. "I get that." But, Lynch argued, "there is a job to be done — and as an attorney, this is an investigations committee, and so it's serious business. It's not going to be run in the press."
What they're saying: Some veteran lawmakers are already lining up behind Lynch, who is third in seniority on the panel after Connolly and 87-year-old Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.).
- "I have a preference for seniority, assuming ability, and I think Lynch is surely able," said Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the former House majority leader.
- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) pointed to Connolly endorsing Lynch to replace him: "It's going to be hard for me and probably many others to do anything contrary to the current ranking member."
Between the lines: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), 44, is expected to throw her hat in the ring.
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), 35, who lost the role to Connolly last December and subsequently left Oversight, is mulling a bid to return to the panel as ranking member.
- Both lawmakers have large social media followings and are considered superstars by the Democrats' liberal base.
The bottom line: Cleaver said of younger Democrats trying to push out older ones, "I think sometimes they take it too far."
- "We have a large number of young people in the Democratic caucus, and I would challenge anybody ... [to] stand toe-to-toe with Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Jim Clyburn, Steny Hoyer, all in their mid or above mid-80s," he said.
House Democrats' Old Guard Prepares To Fight The Youth Revolt
These old Democrats desperate to cling onto power are absolutely ruining the Democrat Party, they hate the younger Democrats so much that they'd rather Weekend at Bernie's each other than actually pass the torch, they're so power hungry it's unreal. The party is too full of useless and weak people like Chuck Schumer who are more concerned about themselves than the country and have zero fight.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 30 April 2025
