Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered an implicit rebuke aimed at former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on climate change, saying she can’t abide politicians who advocate a moderate approach on the issue.
“I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need a ‘middle-of-the-road’ approach to save our lives — that is too much for me,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said Monday evening at an event to rally support for the “Green New Deal” climate plan.
Mr. Biden has been taking heat from the left, including from some of his 2020 Democratic presidential rivals, in the wake of a Reuters report last week that said he was trying to carve out a “middle ground” approach on the issue.
Sen. Bernard Sanders, a 2020 rival of Mr. Biden’s who has said there is no “middle ground” when it comes to climate policy, also appeared at the Green New Deal event at Howard University on Monday.
“Our job is to transform our energy system, take on the fossil fuel industry, and save the planet,” Mr. Sanders, Vermont independent, said at the event.
In New Hampshire on Monday, Mr. Biden tried to push back and defended his record on the environment.
“We need an environmental revolution,” he said at an event in Hampton. “We do need to finish this green revolution in a way that’s rational, and we can do it, afford it, and get it done now.”
Mr. Biden said he planned to deliver a more detailed speech on the issue by the end of the month.
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One characteristic of radicals is they reject the middle ground. In the case of climate change, this means they will insist on far left policies that don’t have a chance of being implemented. This is actually better than what Biden would do. He might actually be able to get more moderate policies implemented, which would cost all of us for a problem that doesn’t even exist.
Voters will defend their interests.
That will keep AO-C and Bernie on the sidelines.
As long as voters defend their interests, we’ll be safe from these Socialist eco anarchists.
As long as voters vote to defend their interests, we’ll be safe from these socialist eco anarchists.
I’ll be damned if I’ll let an ignorant twit like you destroy this country!
A barista elected to Congress is preaching for a revolution. Oh, it is a green one, so that is totally ok.
Just remember, you can vote in socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.
Just like any typical leftists Ocasio-Cortez wants Big Goverment to become involved in fact like all Globalists she wants to have the UN become involved in our lives and her ideas of a Liveble Future means living in a grass hut without heat and going totaly vegan a typical liberal democrat