Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) NY questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy at House Oversight Committee

No, The New Postmaster General Would Not Have Been “Fired By Now” If He Was CEO Of A Major Corporation

Democrats in Congress are botching a crystal clear, easy to understand issue that should be a political slam dunk for them by making it overly convoluted

Should be simple as:

“Where’s my damn mail? And what are you going to do to get it to me?”

Leave it at that. Let it resonate.

Which is why every time we hear House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney use that “CEO” line, which seemed like about a million times today, we cringe.

Because:

1. It makes the situation with the currently broken United States Postal Service more complicated by putting it into the context of comparing it (and its leadership) to a regular business, which it’s not.
2. It allows the conversation to move into the realm of running the Postal Service like a business. Which is not the point right now. And might even give some wavering Trump supporters (especially if they’re not getting important deliveries like medications) pause to reconsider and think: “Right! Now we get it: he’s just trying to run it like a business. Of course there are going to be…