AOC vs. Manchin

The feud between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Joe Manchin heated up over the weekend, with the progressive firebrand hitting back at the moderate Democrat for referring to her as a “young lady.”

“In Washington, I usually know my questions of power are getting somewhere when the powerful stop referring to me as ‘Congresswoman’ and start referring to me as ‘young lady’ instead,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx/ Queens), 31, tweeted in a post that included a winking emoji.

“Imagine if every time someone referred to someone as ‘young lady’ they were ask responded to [sic] by being addressed with their age and gender?” she asked in another tweet.

“They’d be pretty upset if one responded with ‘the old man,’ right? Why this kind of weird, patronizing behavior is so accepted is beyond me!”

The 74-year-old Manchin (D-W. Va.) was on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday when he

responded to allegations made by Ocasio-Cortez that he “huddles” weekly with Exxon.

“I don’t know that young lady that well. I really don’t. I met her one time between sets here, but that’s it.” he said. “We’ve not had any conversations. She’s just speculating and saying things.”

Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Manchin, who opposes President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan, which includes funds to combat climate change, has deep ties to the fossil-fuel industry.