Chris White Tech Reporter
December 13, 2019 1:07 PM ET
Former Vice President Al Gore believes the Green New Deal (GND) could be a winning issue for Democrats in 2020.
The GND is a “broad brushstroke, bold proclamation, the details of which are designed to be filled in later,” Gore told Politico Friday. He believes Democratic candidates should use the legislation to help generate enthusiasm before next year’s election, Politico reported.
Gore also suggested that Republicans are flipping on climate change. “We’re not that far away from a restoration of bipartisan support, particularly since Mother Nature is getting everybody’s attention with these fires and floods and hurricanes,” he told reporters.
Republicans in the Senate torpedoed the activist-backed legislation in March as Democrats called the vote a dog-and-pony show. The GOP defeated the proposal 57-0; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the bill a socialistic ploy designed to kill the economy. (RELATED: McConnell And Senate Republicans Vote To Kill Green New Deal)
The resolution, introduced in February by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called for “10-year national mobilizations” toward addressing climate change. A fact sheet published alongside the proposal claimed the plan would “mobilize every aspect of American society on a scale not seen since World War 2.”
The GND would reportedly phase out fossil fuel usage within 12 years, but could cost tens of trillions of dollars, some reports show. Americans could be forced to pay up to $93 trillion to implement the proposal over a decade, the conservative-leaning American Action Forum (AAF) noted in a study in February.
Critics claim that number is exaggerated as the proposal is still in the preliminary stages.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey, both of whom are running for president, for instance, signed on as Senate co-sponsors of the proposal before it met its demise in the Senate.
Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, another 2020 candidate, introduced a different version of the GND in November. The new version calls for a $180 billion investment to retrofit public housing to eliminate all carbon emissions.
The housing units would use solar panels and other green energy resources to meet those goals.
Gore has not responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
“Former Vice President Al Gore believes the Green New Deal (GND) could be a winning issue for Democrats in 2020”
The kiss of death?
Here’s a history of “Al Gore Says” phenomenon.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/06/15/history-of-the-global-warming-scare-chapter-6-2005-2010/
“The kiss of death?”
Definitely.
Delightful list; thanks for that. Anyone who believes in even the last one should go out in a field somewhere and stand there holding up fence wires.
“broad brushstroke, bold proclamation, the details of which are designed to be filled in later,”
Wherein lies the devil.
The GND is a “broad brushstroke, bold proclamation, the details of which are designed to be filled in later,” Gore told Politico Friday. He believes Democratic candidates should use the legislation to help generate enthusiasm before next year’s election, Politico reported.
The devil is in those details to be filled in later, along with massive poverty.
$93 Trillion over 10 years will cost the average American $30,000 per year, or $120,000 per year for a family of four. Since the median household income is about $65,000 per year, the Green New Deal would make more than half of the families in the United States flat broke, so that “maybe” the climate might be a fraction of a degree cooler, that no one will notice, since everyone will be struggling to keep the lights on.
When Al Gore ran for President in 2000 against global warming, Democrats lost West Virginia (coal country) for the first time in decades. If Gore had won WV, he would have been President, and wouldn’t have needed Florida. Pennsylvania and Ohio, which are natural gas fracking states, flipped to Trump in 2016.
Nevertheless, I encourage all Democrats to run on the Green New Deal. With record low unemployment, the stock market hitting record highs, lower taxes, and America exporting oil and natural gas for the first time in over 50 years, how many voters want to trade that for cold poverty, and a booming market for candles and buggy whips? The Green New Deal as a platform for Democrats is a great way for Republicans to re-take the House of Representatives, keep the Senate, and President Trump to be re-elected overwhelmingly.
The cognitive issues of the great Goracle are certainly great and multiple, but let’s hope there are few mature individuals on the Democratic side who realize Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are not going to rescue Americans from policies guaranteed to initiate economic suicide.
Al Gore = Artificial Intelligence gore.
Cripple the US even more vs upcoming China.
Forget Russia, that is just the CIA’s patsy.
Gore: believes Democratic candidates should use the (GND) legislation to help generate enthusiasm before next year’s election
Republicans: want Democratic candidates to follow Gore’s advise.
There’s a reason the Dems refused to vote on the GND when Mitch McConnel brought it up for a vote. 57-0 against the GND. Not a single Dem was willing to vote for it, with 43 Dems (including it’s Senate co-sponsors) voting “present”. Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kristen Gillibrand (R-NY), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) all refused to vote for it despite claiming to be in support of it. Even they realize how big a loser the GND really is. They’ll give it lip service to pull in lefty climate activists support but nothing more.
Remember Earth in the Balance? Gore’s book that he ran on in 2000. The one that made me hold my nose and vote for Bush, after 20 years of wasting my vote on the LP. He’s also bankrolling the Greta agitprop campaign, through his Foundation. I think this is his last chance to save the world again. I sure hope so.
People all over the world slowly start to understand that this climate alarmist renewable madness has a price. Its a price that ordinary people pay through higher prices for energy and everything else including the bare essentials for life. Its a price that they pay through higher taxes and rates and its also a price that they pay through lower wages or job loss because of a stunted economy. All those people are voters. Forcing Democrat candidates to align themselves with the GND is tantamount to political suicide. Gore must know that – but then again. What do you expect from a man that preaches rising sea levels and who lives on a seaside property?