The Washington Examiner’s Daily on Energy project embarrassed itself today, calling climate-activist congressman Sean Casten (D-IL), who holds a 0% lifetime rating from Heritage Action, as a “centrist Democrat.”
By earning a rating of 0%, Casten holds an even more leftist rating than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (17%) and Ilhan Omar (12%).
The Examiner made its subjective and ridiculous assertion about Casten being a centrist in an effort to make Casten’s climate extremism sound middle-of-the-road and reasonable.
The Examiner soft-tossed Casten a creampuff interview, giving him a media platform to – in the words of the Examiner – “blast the GOP” for opposing carbon dioxide taxes and other extremist climate measures.
After calling Casten a “centrist Democrat,” the Examiner piled on this false narrative.
The Examiner claimed Casten “has emerged as one of the most independent-minded members on the House’s special climate committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
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Showing how he amassed a voting record to the left of AOC and Ilhan Omar, Casten claimed that imposing carbon dioxide taxes should be just one of many new government restrictions on energy and climate.
The Examiner swept under the rug the fact that Casten has financially profited off his climate alarmism.
Casten and his father founded a recycling waste heat company, marketing his company as a way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The Examiner described Casten, despite this bias and apparent conflict of interest as simply, “A former clean energy businessman and scientist.”
No, Washington Examiner, a member of Congress with a 0% Heritage Action lifetime rating, scoring farther to the left than AOC and Ilhan Omar, is not a “centrist Democrat.”
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I have made this comment before here and elsewhere. The political definitions of right, centrist and left sure have changed over the last 10 years (Approx). What used to be a far left radical is now called a centrist. Comments like “governments should live within their means”, or “the best qualified candidate should get the position” used to be more mainstream. Now those comments get you labeled as a far right extremist.
Too true, DG Schroeder, unfortunately. The hard left has taken over the Australian left completely. It is hard to watch other supposed centrists do the bidding of the hard left, especially when I can remember all too well when some of them were forthright in their belief that the left had to be centre-left, even if that meant tolerating anti-democratic practices in a democratic party to keep it that way.