Posted on 02/14/2019 1:00:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., one of the few Democrats on Capitol Hill who has openly criticized the Green New Deal, renewed his attacks on the plan in a Wednesday interview -- calling it a "dream" and not a real deal.
With a vote being called by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in order to get Democrats on record regarding the controversial proposal, Manchin spoke out during a CNN interview.
“The Green New Deal is a dream, it’s not a deal. It’s a dream. And that’s fine. People should have dreams in the perfect world what they’d like to see. I’ve got to work in realities and I’ve got to work in the practical, what I have in front of me,” Manchin told anchor Chris Cuomo. “I’ve got to make sure that our country has affordable, dependable, reliable energy 24/7, but you can’t just be a denier and say, ‘Well, I’m not going to use coal. I’m not going to use natural gas. I’m not going to use oil.’”
“And you have to understand also that climate -- we talk about global climate, it’s the globe. It’s not North American climate, it’s not the United States’ climate. It’s the globe,” Manchin continued. “How do we bring on China and India and everybody else who are great users of carbon right now and polluters of carbon to be carbon-free also?”
Manchin also weighed in on the expanding 2020 field and cautioned the running Democrats that they should campaign as a “centrist” since “that’s where most people’s lives are.”
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It’s not a dream, it’s a nightmare.
Dem one party rule with Dems owning the US and everyone in it
If this guy is not careful, he’ll get purged. It’s what socialists do to those in “The Party” that are not ideologically pure enough. Run as centrists... what a heretic.
Hah ... No, he's wrong. They should campaign as the frothing-at-the-mouth Marxist perverts that they are. Honesty is the best policy, they say.
It’s not a dream, it’s a hallucination brought on by noxious fumes and oxygen deprivation from having one’s nose shoved too far up one’s butt.
It's a delusion that spits in the face of the laws of nature.
The fact that this hard-core leftist, Manchin, seems to be relatively sane tells just how far the demonicRAT Party has descended into madness.
“If this guy is not careful, he’ll get purged.”
He has two options. Toe the line with the Rats, or change parties like Jim Justice did in WV. If he stays Rat and makes sensible statements, he’ll be annihilated by his cohorts. It must suck to be him right now.
bttt
We have nothing to lose if the Turtle gives Joe chairmanship of the energy committee in exchange for Joe’s flip to ‘R’.
For the record, Jim Justice was a demonicRAT for the two years it took him to get nominated and elected governor. He was a Republican before the campaign, and switched back to being Republican after being elected. I don’t trust him for a whole lot of reasons.
Manchin wants to Gov of WV
I’ve been calling it the Green Wet Dream
He reminds me of McCain with a D instead of an R.
Yes, let’s keep talking about green new deal, while we get sold out on immigration. AOC and McConnell both want you to stay distracted while they kill the wall and enact an amnesty
STOP HIM!
It would be a nightmare Senator. Get it straight.
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