This is hilarious! 57-0 unanimous rejection!
By Molly Prince
Mike Lee Uses Velociraptors, Tauntauns And Aquaman To Dismantle The Green New Deal
- Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee delivered a speech on the Senate floor arguing against the Green New Deal.
- Lee displayed a picture of President Ronald Reagan firing a machine gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur to explain how unrealistic the Green New Deal is to solving climate change.
- Lee mocked the Green New Deal’s proposal to eliminate airplanes by arguing Americans would need to ride Tauntauns and Aquaman’s 20 foot seahorse to fly to Alaska and Hawaii.
Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee argued against the Green New Deal on Tuesday by mocking two of the most controversial, and often ridiculed, policy proposals in the resolution: eliminating air travel and flatulating cows.
“Unlike others, I’m not immediately afraid of what the Green New Deal would do to the economy and our government. After all, this isn’t going to pass — not today, not any time soon certainly,” Lee said on the Senate floor. “After reading the Green New Deal, I’m mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face — I rise today to consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves.”
Lee began his speech by displaying an image of former President Ronald Reagan firing a machine gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur, waving an American flag.
“The Cold War as we all know, was won without firing a shot,” he continued. “But that quibble actually serves our purposes here today because this image has as much to do with overcoming Communism in the 20th century as the Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change in the 21st.”
Lee argued that there is not even one serious proposal in the entire Green New Deal and singled out the resolution’s call for a World War II-style mobilization effort to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions like methane, that arise from cow flatulence. He also highlighted the call to rid air travel.
“We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast,” reads the initial version of the resolution’s fact-sheet, which has since been removed.
“[Eliminating airplanes] might seem merely ambitious for politicians who represent the densely populated northeastern United States, but how’s it supposed to work for our fellow citizens who don’t live somewhere between Washington, D.C., and and Boston?” Lee asked, taking a thinly veiled shot at the resolutions’ Democratic sponsors, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey.
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From the Daily Caller
Meanwhile, after that presentation came the vote:
Senate votes down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal 57-0 with high-profile Democrats joining Republicans to show their disapproval of radical plan as she says she didn’t want vote to happen and charges GOP climate policy with wrecking havoc on world.
- The Senate roundly rejected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal as expected on Tuesday with not a single senator voting ‘yes’
- The final Senate vote was 57 nays and 43 present
- Most of the Democrats voted ‘present’ in protest
- Ocasio-Cortez argued she encouraged the senators to vote ‘present’
- Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia; Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona; and Doug Jones of Alabama all voted no as did Independent Sen. Angus King
- Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell staged a show vote on Green New Deal
- The move was designed to put Democrats on the record about the progressive plan, in a vote Republicans can exploit later for political purposes
- Earlier Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez slammed Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who mocked her Green New Deal in a speech on the Senate floor
- ‘If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything,’ she tweeted
- Lee, in a colorful speech, used a variety of photos to make his point
- Lee claimed the deal would ban airplanes and leave Hawaii to use ‘a massive fleet of giant, highly trained sea horses’ to get around
Full story here.
Now look for Democrats to say, “Well, obviously the bill took things too far, but there are some wonderful goals in there and we need to have a discussion on what steps we should be taking.”
Then look for Republicans to negotiate a compromise between a reasonable position and a mind-bogglingly stupid one, settling on something that’s merely incredibly unreasonable.
Leftists are deranged…
In public, Leftists say Global Warming will make the earth uninhabitable in 12 years, and subsequently proposesd an insane $100 trillion Green New Deal which cause an US economic and social collapse.
However, when a Sente vote on the GND was conducted, not ONE Lefty voted for it because if they had, the GOP would be assured to win back the House, Trump would be re-elected and the Senate would likely win a Super Majority in the 2020 elections…
Leftists actually do wish to destroy the US economy and social structure, but don’t want the public to know the details of how they wish to accomplish it as originally proposed by Cloward and Piven in 1966.
I guess after this vote we might think the COGS have been well and truly stopped. Sadly they don’t understand defeat, they don’t know when they are beaten, they will still be talking about marshalling the Eastern army as the hand grenades are rolling down the bunker steps. They are that dedicated to their ridiculous manic ambitions.
Mary Robinson will be pushing her Zimmer frame round, still calling everyone who uses energy evil, as the care home staff try to get her quietly back into bed. As for AOC well this vote will be touted as a victory by tomorrow, nothing changes. For them, the Greens/socialists the defeats and just part of training. It’s like a Bram Stoker horror story, the COGS can’t be destroyed by conventional mean. They never see the light and all who are touched by their coven, remain locked into the fight no matter what.
Well done America though. You are shining a light into the dens of poison or Democrats as they are called over there. Their high priest of Mann made climate change Al Gore may be flushed out of hiding if you keep up this resistance. He was last seen buried in a snow drift he hadn’t expected, somewhere in Northern California.
To anyone who wonders how an extremely ignorant and deluded bartender could suddenly become DNC’s new leader should watch this video showing how AOC is simply a sock puppet for a Far-Left Socialist NGO called Justice Democrats.
AOC’s brother is actually the one who gave Justice Democrats her name for consideration to be one of their sock puppets..
The handlers at Justice Democrats just give AOC a script that she repeats like a parrot. That’s why she says such incredibly stupid things when she goes even a little off script..
She is extremely ignorant on pretty much everything:
Eliminating air travel? Is that what Boeing’s hidden agenda is? Cunnning!
China just ordered 300 Airbus models in France right now.
It will be fun to see how the libtarded news media spins this, since they fawned all over the GND, singing it’s praises to the high heavens.
“It will be fun to see how the libtarded news media spins this”
The Leftwing News Media handled it by doing what they usually do when bad news comes socialism’s way, they ignore it and pretend it didn’t happen.
I don’t see how the Leftwing News Media can get more corrupt. They have a Leftwing political agenda and are pushing it at every opportunity, regardless of the truth.
The lying Leftwing News Media is the greatest present danger to the freedoms of all of us. They create a false reality which will lead us to destruction if were we to believe what they say. They push socialism and socialism is the death of personal freedoms.
Exactly – none of these politicians would be able to have gotten away with anything they’ve done without Goebbels’ cloned army carrying water for them.
There is an old saying – when your neighbor’s cow is bogged down in mud , all four hooves in deep, call for help. The helpfuls arrive, but the only cow’s owner gets to pull the tail – guess why?
In this case no Senator was crazy enough.
If Ocasio-Cortez ever wanted to do some ACTUAL good, she’s got an air-tight lawsuit against the institutions that educated her – there’s no way she could have started out this stupid.
Seriously, if a football player can sue the NFL for brain-damage, what level of damage are these universities liable for?
AOC on the 43 “present” votes – “I *meant* to do that”!
Mike Lee Uses Velociraptors, Tauntauns And Aquaman To Dismantle The Green New Deal
And much props to Sen. Lee for giving it all the seriousness it deserves. And Kudos to his assistant for her heroic efforts at keeping a straight face through out.