California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday in his “State of the State” address at the California State Capitol in Sacramento that he would abandon the state’s high-speed rail system because it was too expensive.
Jonathan Chait writes that the Green New Deal’s problems are deeper than just the bizarre FAQ disavowed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — rather, it is the plan’s radical, politically toxic “dismantling capitalism” approach and pie-in-the-sky proposals wholly unrelated to energy policy.
UPDATE — 2:19 p.m. EST: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) confirmed Tuesday afternoon that he will bring a vote on the Green New Deal, telling to reporters on Capitol Hill: “I’ve noted with great interest the Green New Deal. And we’re
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel echoed the sentiment President Donald Trump expressed a night earlier at a rally in El Paso, TX criticizing the so-called Green New Deal. McDaniel noted that a
Failed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke praised the Green New Deal on Monday, despite the widespread mockery of the socialist proposal from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared Monday that the city would abandon plans to rebuild three natural gas power plants, despite concerns that the city could face acute power shortages as a result.
“It sounds like a high school term paper that got a low mark,” Trump said, noting that it would shut down the oil industry and air travel.
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) defined the Democrats’ Green New Deal as “just another word for socialism” on SiriusXM Breitbart News Sunday with host Amanda House.
“I’d have been more impressed if he had the guts to rally on the Juarez side, on the other side of the wall,” Trump Jr said, referring to the Mexico side of the border.”But he didn’t of course because we all know that walls work guys.”
The Green New Deal (GND) quickly became the subject of such mockery that its godmother, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, attempted to scrub the talking points from her website and pretend they never existed at all. The effort to erase this political disaster is one of the biggest political gaslighting operations in recent memory. It happened so fast that half of the online Left is still touting the GND as the irresistible wave of the future, while the other half thinks it’s a trick concocted by right-wing pranksters.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said in an interview Monday she supports “some type of” reparations to black Americans for slavery.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy predicted Democrats’ Green New Deal would hurt the middle class and isn’t based on science during a Breitbart News Saturday SiriusXM Patriot interview.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Sunday to mock a Democratic presidential rival, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who supports radical action on climate change and launched her 2020 campaign during a major snowstorm.
Conventional wisdom holds that relatively moderate, or at least politically savvy, leaders in the Democrat Party are horrified by the rollout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put AOC in her place when she “threw shade” at the program (as CNN put it) by sniffing disdainfully that “nobody knows what it is.” Do not believe this kabuki theater for an instant.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Chris Murphy (D-CT) compared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-MA) so-called Green New Deal to the moon landing. Host Jake Tapper said, “You co-sponsored a resolution outlining a green new deal in
Republicans lost seven House districts in California in 2018 — some in dubious circumstances that involved so-called “ballot-harvesting.” But the party plans to target those same districts in 2020, hoping the Democrats move so far left that suburban and rural voters come back to the GOP.
Former San Francisco mayor and California State Assembly speaker Willie Brown threw shade at his ex-girlfriend, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), and the other contenders for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020, writing Saturday that none of them can beat President Donald Trump.
Sadly, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is helping to spread Robert Hockett’s lies by retweeting a short video clip of Hockett lying to her three million followers.
Veteran actor Harrison Ford issued a stark warning to the world about the effects of climate change this weekend, describing it as the “greatest moral crisis of our time.”
The “Green New Deal” introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) last Thursday dwells on the plight of various oppressed groups, but somehow fails to mention lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans.
Republicans are thrilled at the prospect of their rivals embracing the Green New Deal, which promises to wipe out massive portions of the American economy, and the president is no exception.
On Saturday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Watters’ World,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, sounded off on the so-called “Green New Deal” announced earlier this week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other Democrats.
President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager predicted Americans will reject the “dishonest campaign and socialist ideas” of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who announced her 2020 bid Saturday.
Will Colorado’s Democrat Senator, Michael Bennet, choose the faddish Green New Deal over his state’s economic future?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stewed for a few hours over President Donald Trump’s critique of socialism in Tuesday’s State of the Union Address, then lashed back on Twitter with this defense of his cherished ideology.
On his Friday radio show, talker Dennis Prager offered his theory on the motivation behind the Democratic Party’s push for a Green New Deal, an effort spearheaded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Prager argued the Green New Deal was an example of those behind the cause needing a “purpose,” which he labeled as “leftists.”
The “Green New Deal” introduced Thursday by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will not save the planet from its supposed destruction in 12 years. It would, however, harm the environment by banning the three most revolutionary “green” inventions of the last several decades.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is boasting that dozens of Democrats back her Green New Deal, including Democrat presidential candidates.
House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said during a press conference on Friday that he is “disappointed” by the Democrats’ Green New Deal and “what it would do to our middle class.”
Friday at a campaign event in Mason City, IA, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) compared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-MA) so-called Green New Deal to fighting Nazis. Booker said, “We have to deal with this. Our planet
A few years ago at the height of the global warming scare I wrote a book which set out to answer one of the key questions of our time: if climate change isn’t really a problem why do so many people act as though it is?
Hollywood celebrities wasted no time to show their support for the radical socialist Green New Deal proposed by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week.
Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz spoke to Alex Marlow of Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Thursday, detailing the harmful effects the Green New Deal will have on Americans.
Back in 2015 on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin warned that what some were calling the environmental movement was nothing more than a “degrowth” movement, which apparently has much larger aims than curing environmental ails. Levin
The planet is cooling, but this isn’t something the alarmists want you to hear, especially when they’ve got a shiny, expensive, new bridge to sell you with Green New Deal stamped on the side.
“Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” With Democrats’ help, Trump can run on that promise in 2020, and win.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)’s Green New Deal legislation will abolish I.C.E. — the internal combustion engine.
How will they pay for the Green New Deal? By creating an entirely new banking system out of thin air.
A Job Creators Network/ScottRasmussen.com Weekly Pulse poll found that an overwhelming majority of Americans are against those who make $500,000 having to pay more in taxes.
Progressive Democrats admit in their newly-unveiled Green New Deal outline that the resources of every billionaire and company would not cover the proposal’s cost.
