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To: Alberta's Child

And yet you have somehow forgotten that Hillary Clinton who supports all this, won the popular vote by about 4 million votes in 2016.


33 posted on 02/15/2019 11:11:42 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
She never supported this nonsense in 2016. In fact, her own senior campaign advisors told her to steer clear of any drastic environmental issues at the time.

You can find an astute analysis of this here:

The GOP and the Green New Deal

Yet the Democrats will spend the next several weeks or months pushing their new plan, which is "cap and trade" on steroids. President Trump thinks that's just brilliant. He knows this will ensure that blue-collar Democrats, many of whom work or want to work in the fossil fuel and supporting industries, will stay with him as we move toward the 2020 presidential campaign. About 1.9 million Americans work directly in the traditional coal, oil, and gas electric power generation and fuels sector. And, now with the Green New Deal, Democrats are aiming to eliminate their jobs once again. That will not play in Peoria, nor Pittsburgh.

I'll go back and raise the same point I made earlier on this thread: Why the hell are the Democrats in the U.S. Senate so pissed off at Mitch McConnell for bringing this 'Green New Deal' proposal up for a Senate vote?

The answer is obvious: Because it forces Democrats to either vote for something that will be draped around their necks in "purple" states and districts during the next election cycle, or vote against it and expose a major rift in the party.

34 posted on 02/15/2019 11:26:35 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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