Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put AOC’s Green New Deal to a vote today. It went down in flames 57-0.
Doug Jones (Ala.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), along with Independent senator Angus King (Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats voted against the deal.
The rest, all hypocrites, failed to vote.
Senate Democrats Refuse to Vote for the Green New Deal
The National Review reports Senate Democrats Refuse to Vote for the Green New Deal.
After weeks of praising the Green New Deal for its supposedly ambitious, forward-thinking proposals for tackling climate change, Democratic senators refused to vote on the measure when Republican leadership brought it to the floor this afternoon.
At a press conference for the Green New Deal today, the Senate bill’s primary sponsor Ed Markey (D., Mass.), claimed he stood behind the proposal. “It is the national-security, economic, health-care, and moral issue of our time,” he said. But Markey, along with 52 of his fellow Democrats, still refused to vote in favor of the legislation.
Hiding in the Closet
How the heck do you stand behind a deal by hiding in the closet?
Meanwhile, everyDemocraticsenatorrunningfor president has publicly stated his or her support for the Green New Deal, and, in fact, all of them have even signed on to Markey’s legislation as a cosponsor. Yet not one of them voted in favor of the measure this afternoon.
There’s nothing left to debate. Climate change is an immediate and catastrophic threat to our future.
It’s time for bold action, now. We need a #GreenNewDeal. https://t.co/YpVK11VGEK
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) February 5, 2019
Cosponsor Hypocrites
The Senate Takes the AOC Test
The Wall Street Journal reports the Senate Takes the AOC Test
Voters who accept the premises of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s climate zealotry can also reasonably ask how much Senators who voted “present” want to save our planet. The answer is that despite their rhetoric about existential threats to the planet most of them probably understand that by driving net U.S. carbon emissions to zero the Green New Deal would pose a more immediate existential threat to our way of life.
Peter Huber of the Manhattan Institute has been trying for decades to explain to people why even the most efficient collectors of solar and wind energy will never be able to harvest all that much fuel. He reminds that the sun doesn’t cook us and gusts of wind typically don’t send us hurtling down the street. Compare that with the highly concentrated form of energy in a barrel of oil and one understands why the renewables will always struggle to compete.
Both articles are good.
The Wall Street Journal did a better job from an economic standpoint.
Alexandra DeSanctis at the National Review better exposed the hypocrisy of the vote.
The sponsor and 12 cosponsors did not vote for the bill.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Get a telescope or a solar filter, look at the sun, notice the lack of sunspots, and ask yourself the same question scientists have been asking for quite a while?
Or simply check out the current solar weather.
Why is the sun so quiet?
Since the sun powers the solar system, anything that the sun does should concern us. But how many times have any of you heard recently about the quiet sun?
Kristen Gillibrand: “There’s nothing left to debate. Climate change is an immediate and catastrophic threat to our future.”
No it isn’t. Gillibrand i’m sure, has done ZERO to cut her personal carbon footprint.
AOC rides with gasoline powered UBER drivers. They don’t believe a word they are saying.
Time for a retraction?
US Trade Deficit Shrinks By Most in 10 Years As China Gap Tumbles
Spotlight on a comment by MorrisWR:
“I am a scientist in the medical field (Molecular Biology but was a head of research in Toxicology). Run the data from Vostok or other ice core dara and anyone who knows basic scientific correlations will see this climate change is a crock. We live in a world of gullible idiots who cannot look at data themselves. They blather on about “science” when they have never done any research or understand science actually means testing and data. Hint: look at the last 1 million years of ice core numbers and tou will see the cyclic pattern. Then run the correlation of CO2 changes vs temperwture change. CO2 does NOT drive the temps. Increasing temp releases bound CO2. However, people continue to spew crap without any knowledge.”
StillCJ
“Forcing a vote on the Green New Mess was a brilliant political move by Mitch McConnell. BTW, National Review does not seem to know how many democrats there are in the senate. Hint: it’s not 53.”
53 Republicans + 4 Democrats – but yes they made an error.
Forcing a vote on the Green New Mess was a brilliant political move by Mitch McConnell. BTW, National Review does not seem to know how many democrats there are in the senate. Hint: it’s not 53.
Green New Deal sounds like oxymoron (or should I say An O.C.moron).
And, there are plenty of reasons to suspect the global-warming alarmist of pushing their own agenda.
All that said, sadly, one cannot wish away the receding glaciers and arctic ice sheets.
Boy they really showed the other party that they won’t be forced into voting for … things they support.
No one will remember this come 2020. The vote merely allows candidates to disassociate themselves from AOC and the left wing. This is a good thing. Each party tries to make the other look bad but actually helps it.
It won’t help them during the Democratic primary, when candidates are falling all over themselves to show how left they are.
And the winner will end up being the one in the middle. For all the take over by the wings people forget Trump wasnt the most right wing candidate in the primary. When voters in new Hampshire and Iowa decide who the leaders are it won’t be some socialist who supports the green new deal.
Even left wing voters don’t want to freeze and be hungry in the dark…