MSNBC host slams Nancy Pelosi for helping defeat AOC on the House Oversight Committee
This past week saw New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fail in her effort to become the House Oversight Committee's ranking Democratic member.
That fact led one liberal media figure to publicly slam former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her role in Ocasio-Cortez's defeat.
MSNBC host calls Ocasio-Cortez's defeat " a moment of genuine madness"
"It feels like a moment of genuine madness," the Daily Mail quoted MSNBC host Chris Hayes as saying of Pelosi's decision to whip votes for 74-year-old Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly.
"I understand his colleagues who respect him. I understand the way seniority works in Congress, which has been there forever," Hayes continued.
"But in light of everything that has happened over the past decade, it does feel like Democrats still have not learned a pretty important lesson," he insisted.
Democratic Party failed to understand why younger leaders are important
Hayes then highlighted how the Democratic Party has repeatedly failed to understand the importance of promoting younger leadership.
He recalled how Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg refused to resign during Barack Obama's presidency despite her advanced years and serious health problems.
"Donald Trump and the Republican Senate just a few months before the election replaced her with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett further cementing conservative control of the court for generations to come and facilitating the end of Roe v. Wade," Hayes pointed out.
"You would think that would have been enough for Democrats to start taking the age issue seriously but it was not," the host complained.
Biden insisted on running for another term
Hayes next brought up President Joe Biden's decision in April of last year to run for another term in office despite having previously implied that he might not do so.
"Even though he was the oldest man to ever serve as president and was also clearly having a hard time communicating at the level necessary to occupy the bully pulpit," the television host stressed.
"It wasn't until over a year later, when Biden gave a cataclysmic performance in his first debate with Donald Trump that the Democrats changed course after a wrenching, excruciating process," Hayes pointed out.
"Just months out from the election, Biden, again, to his credit, finally stepped aside under enormous pressure, but he clearly didn't do so under the conditions - we can say in retrospect - that would have been best for Democrats to run a winning campaign," Hayes lamented.
