Democrats are trying to shake off the specter of the Green New Deal, but the sweeping climate change manifesto is unlikely to disappear from the public discourse anytime soon.
Environmental activists and Republicans will make sure of that.
“Get ready for the Green New Deal to be one of the biggest buzzwords in electoral politics in decades,” said Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot. “Both the GOP and Democrats will love to denounce and praise it.”
House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed the Green New Deal as the “green dream,” and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out his plan to The New York Times to distract from the Green New Deal going on the “offensive” on climate change.
Schumer’s plan includes having Democratic Senators vote “present” on the Green New Deal, promoting a watered-down alternative resolution and weekly floor speeches on climate change.
“This is the first time Democrats have decided to go on offense on climate change,” Schumer told The Times in an interview published Monday.
Schumer’s ultimate goal is to make climate change a top issue in 2020, but will he be able to do it on his terms and avoid being tied to Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s radical plan? Not everyone thinks so.
“Once you issue a manifesto, and that is irreducibly what the Green New Deal is, it becomes a measuring stick for advocates, allies and opponents,” McKenna said. “You can’t negotiate over it, and you can’t abandon it. It is a burn-the-boats moment.”
For starters, Environmental activists, mainly with the Sunrise Movement, have been pressing Democratic lawmakers for months to support the Green New Deal. That mobilization is unlikely to disappear overnight.
“The environmental left has for decades been pushing central planning, wealth redistribution and limits to sovereignty as the ‘solution’ to a host of real and perceived environmental issues,” Morano told TheDCNF.
The Green New Deal resolution, introduced by Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey in February, is only the latest iteration of that, Morano said.
Green New Deal supporters see it as the only real way to tackle climate change, dramatically shifting the U.S. economy to “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions, organized around “social justice” concerns.
On top of that, a number of 2020 presidential hopefuls have embraced the Green New Deal, including Democratic Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California as well as Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
That means, at the very least, the Green New Deal will likely be used as a talking point for Democrats in 2020, though they will likely keep it vague. Expect Republicans to constantly bring it up as well.
“Ocasio-Cortez’s resolution will be the main focus of debate for several years at least because it is the first document that lays out the Green Leap Backward honestly and publicly,” said Myron Ebell, a Green New Deal opponent and director of energy policy at the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Republicans see Green New Deal support as a major vulnerability to Democrats in 2020. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to bring the resolution to a vote, confident of its defeat.
“The Green New Deal, I encourage it,” Trump joked during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Saturday. “I think it’s really something that they should promote.”
“No planes. No energy. When the wind stops blowing, that is the end of your electric,” Trump added.
As conservative strategists see it, tying Democrats to the Green New Deal is tying them to “socialist” policies that have catastrophically failed in many countries, most recently in Venezuela.
“The authors of the Green New Deal have made it clear that they oppose a significant chunk of what has made America,” said Michael McKenna, a Republican strategist.
“So of course we are talking about it in every campaign and every policy discussion until collectivism is stamped out,” McKenna added.
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Chuky Sleeze your turkeys have come home to roost might as well get used to it
The Raw Deal is going to cost more votes than Hillary’s mind fart ,
threatening to fire coal workers .
The donkey party that pretends to represent workers is now out in the open .
The Democrats have become the anti american party and now they even want a list of dissenter .Can’t have Congress working .
With Bernie , an American Indian impostor , Spartacus , and Harris running things what could possibly go wrong ? Pelosie looks like she is permanently
fighting off a stroke .
Can you imagine if Democrat politicians like Booker, Harris and Warren were actually the creme de la creme of the donkey party ? They must have self accessed and looked at the competition before concluding …yeah I can beat out those other fools .
More importantly who would bankrolling a cabal of losers that support a “deal ” which would end the USA and likely result in millions of deaths before it did it . If someone is keen to light the fuse that will send the USA into a vicious civil war just try and shove the “green Deal ” down the throats of Americans .
The Green Deal is Romper Room for 5 year old’s but mainly it’s Democrats whoring their billionaire $$ bag men as they audition . Hillary is just too lazy to campaign again so will just watch the shit show a while longer before mounting her white horse to save the Democrats from full on implosion .
The New Punks on the Block have posted their menu in the front window of the Democrats Restaurant. Special of the Day is the Green New Deal. Nothing is cooked, every item is served raw, cold and tasteless. A 90% tip is included in the tab, and don’t expect smiles from the staff, you rich bastard.
Sorry Members of the Stupid Jackass Party(Liberal Democrats)but this Albatross is around your necks and you cant remove it