Are we pouncing today, fellow conservatives? Or are we seizing?
According to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, we’re “obsessively reporting” on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her Green New Deal, which the Morning Joe anchor contends does not reflect “the consensus of Democrats.”
Maybe that’s because every important 2020 presidential candidate in the Democratic Party is backing the proposal. In the Senate resolution alone, the co-sponsors of the bill include Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt.; Sen Kamala Harris, D-Calif.; Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.; and the lone, supposedly moderate candidate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
Sure, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has all but dismissed the multi-trillion dollar progressive pet project. But it’s quite otherwise with the entire Democratic presidential field. Without so much as a complete draft of the GND, politicians who are otherwise considered serious people have wholeheartedly endorsed a bill that expects to rid the U.S. of carbon emissions in 10 years, whose real cost would surely run in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Ocasio-Cortez says she’ll use “Modern Monetary Theory” to pay for it, otherwise known as printing more money from the Treasury money tree. It’s actually that stupid, and they’re all backing it, and they all want to be president. It’s not an obsession, it’s a reality that can’t be ignored.
With the exception of Sanders and Klobuchar, whose presidential campaigns are not yet technically official, every single one of the senators listed above are serious contenders for the Democratic nomination. In nearly every poll, Sanders comes in second, only to former Vice President Joe Biden, and Harris and Booker round out the top five.
Pelosi may be wise enough to realize that achieving carbon neutrality within a decade by nationalizing a quarter of our economy, and banning nuclear power, is poppycock. But she won’t be Speaker for long, and the so-called fresh-faced future of the party couldn’t care less about her opinion. The future of the party isn’t with their near-octogenarian Speaker. It’s with freshmen congresswomen who want to wipe Israel from the map, with senators touting wealth and estate taxes that would titillate Karl Marx himself, and of course, with the more than 40 sitting Democratic congressmen backing the risible and embarrassing outline of the GND.
Conservative commentators have accurately pointed out that the GND would do much to socialize the economy and little to actually lower greenhouse gas emissions. That isn’t below the belt, it’s honest. Even Vox, which is quite left of center, admits the resolution includes “eyebrow-raising doozies.”
The media can moan over conservatives pointing out that the Federal Reserve is not a piggy bank for federal job guarantees, and that aspirations to rid the world of “farting cows,” yes, the outline says those words, and air travel won’t fly well with the public, so to speak. But this is the new Democratic Party. It’s their future, or at least that’s what all of their presidential candidates seem to think.
So no, Joe, we’re not “pouncing.” We’re not “seizing.” We’re not “obsessing.” We’re reporting the truth. You’d be wise to try it some time.
