The Green New Deal plan got zero votes in the Senate this week. Z-E-R-O.
Yet progressives continue to claim people “like” the plan, with the help of the liberal media.
Not a single Democrat senator voted in favor of the Green New Deal, with 43 voting “present” on March 26.
According to USA Today, a handful of Democrats joined the Republicans in voting against it in the procedural vote — killing it “for now.”
USA Today reported the results on the front page March 27, saying “Green New Deal withers away in Senate.”
In spite of the plan’s failure to even get a single Democratic senator officially on board, The New York Times ran an op-ed that day promoting it.
The op-ed from left-wing Data for Progress co-founder Sean McElwee claimed, “People Actually Like the Green New Deal. The group is one of the progressive activist groups promoting such a plan and put out its own GND blueprint in 2018.
The subhead continued, “Mitch McConnell’s show vote in the Senate on Tuesday rejected the plan, but Republicans may come to regret their mockery.”
McElwee claimed that although his group is “a liberal organization that is supportive of the Green New Deal, we don’t let that cloud our polling.”
He claimed their polls showed that the plan wasn’t “toxic” and touted: “Forty-six percent of likely voters supported the policy and 34 percent opposed it. (The rest were unsure.)”
That isn’t even a majority! And tucked later into his op-ed it became clear that some of the most essential elements of a Green New Deal such as getting rid of all fossil fuels are actually unpopular.
The disliked elements he acknowledged included a “full shift to electric cars” and “phasing out of all power plants.”
It’s ridiculous for a headline to claim “People Actually Like” the plan with caveats like that.
He also whined that Fox News and the “Republican propaganda machine has already reshaped the narrative” against the Green New Deal, but insisted such a plan is “the future of the Democratic Party.”
His group, Data for Progress, is a project of the left-wing Tides Advocacy (formerly The Advocacy Fund).
According to a piece McElwee and long-time progressive activist Mark Egerman co-wrote for Dissent Magazine, they could envision a “point at which” left-wing billionaire George Soros “would be to the right of the center of the Democratic Party.”
They were criticizing the “power of monied interests” to the left and continued, “For now though, the main threat money poses to the left is largely through the Kochs and corporate PACs, rather than the insufficient liberalism of major donors.”
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THE NEW YORK TIMES and ALL THE CRAP THAT’S FIT TO PRINT
The NYT motto… All the news that is shit to print at least matches their content . This is the problem . Arrogant old MSM still thinks it’s the public’s Mommy. The internet that AL gore invented has released the kraken and MSM
can’t get away trashing journalistic integrity to serve their preachy agenda .
What’s next screwed up sport scores ?
NYT days are numbered as it refuses to realize /adapt to the fact people
can access wide ranging facts and opinions . Look at CNN/ MSNBC pumping the tires of Russia / Trump collusion non-stop for two years as an excuse for Hillary flaming out . People realize they have been had , even true believers , and now they are making their way to the exits . The scary global warming industry did the same thing .
So, people like the Green New Deal but don’t like the idea of ending fossil fuel use or shutting down power plants. Then what is it that they do like about it? Perhaps they are looking forward to paying the extraordinary high taxes that would be necessary to implement the GND.
What is the matter with the USA ? Pursuit of a suicide mission through utter crap like the Green Deal . If another country came along like oh lets say Russia (the dark empire ) , and announce they were going to disrupt the supply and transport of energy to and from the USA there would be a war . Yet the Democrats feel comfortable calling for the complete collapse of the
country on the pretense they are going to save the fucking planet ?
This says a lot about their attitude towards their base and is an insult to anyone with a grade 3 education .
The Republicans have show enough of their spineless nature but at least they got this one right . Make Democrats own their socialist agenda hidden behind crap like the Green Deal .
One gets the distinct impression the Democrats are so desperate and beholding to the flake California bag men that they will say any thing to
defer a bankrupt DNC . They know they have little chance of regaining power on the basis of policy which increasingly run contrarily to the public interest so what are they left with .? Adam Schiff pounding on a dead horse
in self righteous indignation along with fake a american Indian , washroom pervert , and an outright communist to sell their shit .
They are done .
We are looking forward to a rare alignment between Ottawa and Washington. Conservatives and Republicans. Maybe some pipelines will get built, much to the chagrin of OPEC. I’m feeling positive about the future.
Remember the reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was we cut off their major source of oil because they had invaded China. Cutting off a nation’s energy supply is cause for war. Yet, it is the “Progressive” Dmocrats trying to do it to the US.
I “like” the GND because it is a rare example of truth in advertising. The environmental activists will never be satisfied. The EPA’s war against the internal combustion engine is an example. Designating carbon dioxide as a pollutant is another.
WOTUS another. California protecting smelt.
The GND is their final solution for the human race, always was. For those who didn’t see it, AO-C just drew them a picture.
Perfect modes of Tranportation for liberal The Flintstone car use your feet to start or stop the Gilligans Island car peddlepowered and made from 100% Biodegradible material
Wait until the Tesla owners are told that its power plant is actually an external combustion engine.
Many are finding a whole new use for the NYT’s as Birdcage Lining its just about all its worth for these days a total waste of your time to read this liberal rag
And if you want colorful birdcage lining, USA Today is always a good choice.
I hope he is right that the GND is “the future of the Democratic Party” because that would spell the end of their majority in Congress and keep the presidency in the Republican party.