Ocasio-Cortez slams Dems for deeming climate goals 'too controversial'

The Hill ^ | 12/31/18 | MIRANDA GREEN, OWEN DAUGHERTY

[Libloather]

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is ripping her fellow Democrats for failing to take up her proposed special climate change committee called the Green New Deal because it was deemed "too controversial."

Ocasio-Cortez in a Twitter thread Monday blamed House leadership for rejecting the idea behind the Green New Deal, which aimed to create a plan to get the country on a 100 percent renewable energy electric grid.

"A few weeks ago, I joined youth activists in a specific demand for a Green New Deal Committee. It had 3 simple elements: 1. No fossil fuel money on climate cmte 2. Offer solutions for impacted communities 3. Draft sample #GreenNewDeal All 3 were rejected as “too controversial," she tweeted.

[The Raven]

Can you imagine the effect of Ocasio-Cortez’s elimination of fossil fuels in 12 years. No airplanes, no trucks, no coal-fired, or natural gas-fired power plants. No restaurants. No hospitals. No military. The result will be, of course, devastation a million times any worse case scenario of the climate change fear mongers.

And top it with a 70% tax and you have the destruction of the country with starvation and death. And why? Why do we have to have people in government who are dumb as a rock.