Green New Deal Reintroduced By AOC, Markey Or Something

Remember when they introduced it back in February, 2019? The GOP controlled Senate voted on it, and every single Democrat voted “present”, including sponsor Ed Markey (who takes lots and lots of fossil fueled trips from Massachusetts to D.C.). AOC raged about the Senate voting on her legislation, forgetting it was also sponsored by Senator Markey. Then she raged for several years, failing to demand a vote in the House. Now?

AOC, Markey reintroduce Green New Deal proposal aimed at climate change, economic injustice

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey have reintroduced the Green New Deal, the sweeping climate change and economic justice plan that Republicans have used to paint Democrats as radical socialists.

The proposal is a redux of the same resolution the two lawmakers introduced in 2019, calling not just for a decarbonization of the economy but also a fundamental reshaping of the nation’s social safety net to steer substantially more government help to low-income and minority communities.

The 10-year mobilization plan calls for free higher education for all Americans, “affordable, safe, and adequate” housing, an expansion of millions more union jobs, and high-quality health care.

“Not only do we refuse to leave any community behind but those who have been left behind come first,” Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said during a Capitol Hill news conference Tuesday. “We’re going to transition to a 100% carbon-free economy that is more unionized, more just, more dignified and that guarantees more health care and housing than we’re ever had before. That’s our goal.”

This isn’t really about ‘climate change’, is it. Hey, remember when AOC worked overtime to kill off the jobs that Amazon would have brought to her district?

Republicans routinely ridiculed the Green New Deal in the past, calling it a social “manifesto” that showed how out of touch Democrats are. In 2019, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., brought the resolution to the floor without any hearings as a ploy to get Democrats on record in support of the measure. No senators, including all Democrats, voted for the resolution in what Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called a “sham” process. (snip)

Markey told reporters he’s optimistic about its chances this time because much has changed since the Green New Deal was first introduced: Black Lives Matter protests have shined a spotlight on racial injustice, a change in administration, and corporations have begun to realize they need to act as well.

What does any of that have to do with climate apocalypse? I’m thinking McConnell was correct, and, like I’ve said for decades, ‘climate change’ is just a means to push the hardcore Progressive (nice fascism) agenda.

“General Motors is now moving to produce electric vehicles by 2035,” he said. “That was not on the scoreboard two years ago.”

Fourteen years from now? Maybe people will be interested by then. Because few are now. You don’t see AOC, Markey, or Biden driving one, do you? Anyhow, will it get a vote this time? Will it even be discussed in committee?