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Dems scream after Mitch McConnell schedules a vote on their own Green New Deal

There’s nothing quite like handing Democrats What They Want.

So to accommodate them, wily old Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a vote on freshman socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her sidekick Sen. Ed Markey’s much-vaunted “Green New Deal,” just to help them out.

But wait. The Senate lefties are not happy about it.

All that methane-filled and benzene ring-infused hot air about cutting cow farts, getting rid of cars, ending jet travel, and retrofitting every building in America to ‘go green’ — the plan which was so quickly signed onto by nearly all major Democratic presidential candidates, and then pulled from the website — suddenly isn’t quite what Democrats want to go on the record about these days.

So we see headlines like this:

McConnell Trolls Democrats By Pledging A Vote On The Green New Deal –Huffington Post

And “concern” from Democrats such as this:

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) criticized Republicans on Tuesday for pledging to hold what is essentially a show vote on the Green New Deal, given that they have not advanced any serious efforts to address climate change.

Read the full story from American Thinker


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