The Weak Rollout of the Green New Deal

RCP ^ | Bill Scher

[RoosterRedux]

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What has been put forth is only a resolution calling on Congress to draft Green New Deal legislation, not detailed legislation itself. The resolution calls for “meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources,” to be “accomplished through a 10-year national mobilization,” but it doesn’t offer much of a plan to accomplish it, let alone grapple with all of the obstacles and ramifications of a radical transformation of the American economy over a breakneck timeline. On top of its energy goals, the resolution would “require” providing all Americans with “high-quality health care,” “affordable, safe, and adequate housing” and “economic security,” but makes no attempt to explain how to accomplish any of that.

Further adding to the confusion, and handing political ammunition to Republicans, was an amateurish fact sheet briefly posted on Ocasio-Cortez’s website that suggested the proposal would include additional ambitious measures, such as a universal basic income for all Americans. The document was taken down from the site, and dismissed by the congresswoman as a “draft” not intended for distribution.

Some have suggested the sheer audacity of the plan is more important than the policy details or its immediate legislative prospects, because it will move the so-called “Overton Window”: By expanding the bounds of political discourse, the Green New Deal will make other climate proposals appear more moderate than they do today and improve their prospects for passage.

But at least one of the chief policy architects of the resolution isn’t looking to make other proposals look good; he’s trying to make other Democrats look bad.

[Magnum44]

Your post is both instructive and funny at the same time.

[TarasBulbous]

That was fake news. Mark Dice and Joe Prosobeic or whatever his name is put it out there as a gag and AOC ran with it as she predictably took the victim route. And of course a ton of our guys ran with it because hey, any chance to try and clown the likable but stupid AOC.

[Calvin Locke]

I recall a Reader's Digest story about like happenings, save that the products were chandeliers, and they didn't put a stop to quota until ceilings were being pulled down by the weight.

Probably didn't do much good for the floors, tables, people, etc., that were underneath.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

to be “accomplished through a 10-year national mobilization”

Kinda reminds me of Stalin’s old five-year plans. Goals were set without any connection to reality. Miss your goal, and you’re a “wrecker”. It’s off to the gulag with you!

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. - Michael Joseph Oakeshott

[JoeFromSidney]

She's a believer in magic. She believes the two incantations, "green" and "New Deal" have magical properties.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

“What has been put forth is only a resolution calling on Congress to draft Green New Deal legislation, not detailed legislation itself. “

I understand, mental masturbation.

5.56mm

[oldasrocks]

OK, I now have a milk jug full of pee. Anyone know AOC’s address so I can ship it to her. I want to show her that we are going to do what she tells us too.

I advise everyone else to do the same. Fill a jug with pee and ship it to her. As she did not give instruction on what to do with the jugs we can ship them to her to figure out what to do with them.

[hdstmf]

She could use her bartender skills to create P-Cocktail