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Leonard Pitts: GOP might want to stop messing with AOC

She's a freshman congresswoman with no significant legislative achievements, so it makes little sense that you spend so much time and energy on her. Besides, every time you do, you end up getting pantsed.

You'd think you'd learn. Yet, like Charlie Brown trying to kick that football, you keep coming back for more.

The latest example began when one of your rank and file, Rep. Sean Duffy, took aim at the Green New Deal, Ocasio-Cortez's wish list of social, economic and policy goals to stem the impact of climate change. He called it "elitist."

She responded forcefully.