Posted on 03/26/2019 4:01:32 PM PDT by tcrlaf
he Green New Deal, a sweeping Democratic proposal for dealing with climate change, fell at the first hurdle Tuesday as the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to begin debate on the non-binding resolution, with 42 Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voting "present."
No senator voted to begin debate on the legislation, while 57 lawmakers voted against breaking the filibuster. Democratic Sens. Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona joined 53 Republicans in voting "no." Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, also voted "no."
The vote had been teed up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a bid to make Democratic senators -- including several 2020 presidential candidates -- go on the record about the measure. McConnell had called the proposal "a radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy."
The Green New Deal calls for the U.S. to shift away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal and replace them with renewable sources such as wind and solar power. It calls for virtual elimination by 2030 of greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming. Republicans have railed against the proposal, saying it would devastate the economy and trigger massive tax increases.
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Beauty. A few of my bills won't get paid. Come to think of it, I may stop paying for everything. That's in the New Green Scam already, eh?
lol
Global Warming is going away to be replaced by a solar minimum...but the media won’t talk about that.
All the Democrats voted present. That’s what Obama did consistently when he was a senator.
Well, the great Dana Loesch just decided to drop a rhetorical MOAB on the Brave Sir Robins of the National Socialist Democrats:
I guess we’re all going to die in 12 years because Democrats refused to vote for the legislation they said we needed to avert all our untimely deaths.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 26, 2019
But I thought we had less than 12 years to save the planet?? !!
No urgency now?
What?!?
LOL!
Since when do you need 60 votes to BEGIN debate?
The roll call vote on the Green New Deal...
Alphabetical by Senator Name - Grouped By Vote Position - Grouped By Home State
Let’s all emit some greenhouse gases in honor of this day.
Please don’t be alarmed. Turns out the prediction is a lie. The IPPC didn’t say that. It’s some libtard dishonest extrapolation. I think it’s Tucker who I heard talking about a debunking of it done by Associated Press, of all people. So please, I’m sure you’ve been despondent about our imminent demise, but we can all perk up just a little. So, instead of having a drink out of despondency, I’m going to have a drink for celebration!
Obunghole explained to them how voting “present” put him in power when libtards could explain away his decisions in the 2008 election.
The sheep follow.
A”Present” vote is a vote in the affirmative. they are just a bunch of gutless cowards.
Chilled with a 500+ calorie bowl of premium ice cream and fresh blueberries - more ice cream than I’ve had in the past month.
My wife and I were talking about this other night and we were thinking about taking out a second mortgage , spend the money like drunken sailors and not worry about paying it off. As you noted,11.7 years now? What the heck, spend it while you got it!
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