It's rare to see Senate Democrats take political cowardice to such depths.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell followed through on his promise to hold a vote on the much-ballyhooed Green New Deal.
Many Democrats - 90 in the House and a dozen in the Senate, including at least six seeking the party's 2020 presidential nomination - smiled for the cameras and expressed their fealty to the Green New Deal in order to shine up their progressive bona fides with the rabid Trump resistance.
The only scam here is the Green New Deal itself, an absurd proposal that would throttle the entire U.S. economy, entail massive tax hikes and inflict misery and hardship on a wide swath of the country.
Far from being a "Stunt," Tuesday's vote was highly instructive in revealing many Democrats to be petrified that the party's rapid run to the left risks turning off millions of moderate and independent voters.
Preening Democrats rush to embrace a top-down overhaul of the American economy that they insist is a big hit with voters and will save the world.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer argued the vote showed that Republicans "Are way behind the times on clean energy." That's one way to spin it.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-senate-democrats-head-for-the-hills-on-the-green-new-deal-1627840/
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell followed through on his promise to hold a vote on the much-ballyhooed Green New Deal.
Many Democrats - 90 in the House and a dozen in the Senate, including at least six seeking the party's 2020 presidential nomination - smiled for the cameras and expressed their fealty to the Green New Deal in order to shine up their progressive bona fides with the rabid Trump resistance.
The only scam here is the Green New Deal itself, an absurd proposal that would throttle the entire U.S. economy, entail massive tax hikes and inflict misery and hardship on a wide swath of the country.
Far from being a "Stunt," Tuesday's vote was highly instructive in revealing many Democrats to be petrified that the party's rapid run to the left risks turning off millions of moderate and independent voters.
Preening Democrats rush to embrace a top-down overhaul of the American economy that they insist is a big hit with voters and will save the world.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer argued the vote showed that Republicans "Are way behind the times on clean energy." That's one way to spin it.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-senate-democrats-head-for-the-hills-on-the-green-new-deal-1627840/
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