Ocasio-Cortez Tweets Epic Burn After Lieberman Criticism: "New Party, Who Dis?"

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

On a recent appearance with Fox Business News, former U.S. Senator and 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman criticized rising-star, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying her progressive positions are not where the heart of the Democratic Party lie today.

“With all respect, I certainly hope she’s not the future and I don’t believe she is,” said the perennially grumpy Lieberman.

"She's gotten a lot of attention because she's different. She's controversial," Lieberman continued. "But if you look at the majority of new Democrats in the House, they tend to be, I say, center-left, if they are not left-left. And that is because they had to be center-left to win some of those competitive swing districts that they took from Republicans."

The 29-year-old social media-savvy congresswoman (the youngest woman ever elected to Congress) fired back via Twitter with an epic burn asking, “New party, who dis?”

New party, who dis? https://t.co/2cznisv8tB

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2019

Does anyone in the Democratic Party care what Joe Lieberman thinks? https://t.co/fbzV4RWJGY

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 11, 2019

This is where Joe Lieberman always wanted to be: Arguing in absentia with a politician 47 years younger than him, as his 2006 primary opponent becomes governor of his home state. https://t.co/dhpzMpXwoj

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 10, 2019

Joe Lieberman sabotaged both the 2000 election and Obamacare’s public option, betraying Democrats over and over again on his way to becoming a Trump supporter. That turncoat is literally the last person on earth who gets to chime in on what the party’s future should be.

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) January 11, 2019