The “New Democrats,” the organization Lisa Blunt Rochester has joined, has made clear it disapproves of the Green New Deal. The “new” in the name apparently means lobbyists should send their donations to a new address.
“The energy industry is replete with bad unintended consequences of well intentioned regulation. The aspirations of the Green New Deal are great. The amount of attention it’s brought to this issue are fantastic. But doing energy and environmental policy right really requires you get the expertise of the folks who have been down in the trenches,” said Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), a freshman lawmaker who ran primarily on a climate change platform.
Rep. Elaina Luria (D-Va.), a leader the New Democrat Coalition’s climate change task force, told reporters Thursday. “The entire plan of the task force is to find ways to attack this incrementally,” she said of fighting global temperature rise. ”The move is going to be gradual. We’re not going to do 100 percent over ten years.”
The four leaders of the 17 member task force said their goal was to brainstorm and introduce market driven climate initiatives that carry political weight. Those ideas might include bills to institute a Cap and Trade system or other methods of driving renewable energy usage.
Yet again, these Democrats are running scared because Republicans are going to call the GND a “job killer.” Jesus Fucking Christ on an unemployment line, that old canard? There are already more jobs in renewable energy than all the fossil-fuel industries combined, and all growth in the energy sector comes from renewables. They’re also too fucking stupid to understand that their “incremental” measures will be attacked with exactly the same language.
These cowards are a greater threat than Republicans. Twenty years from now “new” Democrats will be tarred and feathered just as swiftly as Republicans, if they can get the tar to solidify at those temperatures and there are any birds left.