You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: AOC Launches Attack on GOP for Pushing To Vote on Green New Deal
By C. Douglas Golden
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Green New Deal is so urgent that the world will end in 12 years if we don’t start following it.
Senate Republicans: All right, then — let’s vote on it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: How could you?
Yes, the Green New Deal is such an urgent piece of legislation that the idea of holding a vote on it in the Senate is a big problem for the freshman New York Democrat who proposed the much-ballyhooed resolution.
The whole kerfuffle has to do with the fact that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to hold a vote on the plan, in part to get Democrats on the record.
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“The Green New Deal continues to be an interesting discussion for, particularly, Republicans and we will, of course, give our Democratic friends who’ve been advocating this proposal an opportunity to debate it and vote on it on the Senate floor sometime in the next couple of weeks,” McConnell said Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Senate Democrats want hearings and debate on the issue before a vote. Without them, they’re calling the move “cynical.” Unlike, say, hearings and debate, which wouldn’t be a forum for posturing and donor clips at all.
In any event, the now-notorious AOC isn’t happy that Republicans are addressing the Green New Deal this way.
The GOP’s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others “on the record”, for leg they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace.
Stop wasting the American peoples’ time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren’t for campaigning, & that’s exactly what these bluff-votes are for. https://t.co/ELzpQhlezo
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 23, 2019
“The GOP’s whole game of wasting votes in Congress to target others ‘on the record’, for (legislation) they have no intent to pass, is a disgrace,” she said.
“Stop wasting the American peoples’ time + learn to govern. Our jobs aren’t for campaigning, & that’s exactly what these bluff-votes are for.”
So basically, Ocasio-Cortez is blasting the Republicans for putting legislation that won’t pass to a vote, implying that it’s posturing.
What do you say, then, about people who introduce legislation that won’t pass and then cry foul when Republicans decide to put it to a vote?
The Green New Deal has always been a farce designed to get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even more media time than she was already getting.
It was a great way to get Democrats on the record that they cared about the environment without actually having to risk anything.
full story at https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/cant-make-stuff-aoc-launches-attack-gop-pushing-vote-green-new-deal/