Democrats Just Killed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Push For A Green New Deal Committee

Viewing 9 reply threads

Author

Posts
- December 20, 2018 at 8:41 PM - Views: 122 #3067
  So let me get this...
  Ohio Barbarian
  We've Seen This All Before...
  ThouArtThat
  Dems are fighting to protect...
  Joe Shlabotnik
  same old same old: why...
  Cold Mountain Trail
  Democrats Just Killed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s...
  NV Wino
  Yeah I think AOC is...
  leftcoast mountains
  Hope she does not fold....
  glinda
  Surprise is right!
  Jan Boehmerman
  Davinci said "The only way...
  Average Gazoo
  As always
  JustSayin
  Oh goodie
  Mick063
  Out OF Touch.
  Enthusiast
  Not surprised – just still...
  djean111
  I favor a multiprong strategy
  Average Gazoo
  leftcoast mountains
  Participant
  Total Posts: 4,839
  Democrats Just Killed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Push For A Green New Deal Committee
  
  Democratic leaders on Thursday tapped Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) to head a revived U.S. House panel on climate change, ending a dramatic monthlong effort to establish a select committee on a Green New Deal.
  
  Castor’s appointment came as a surprise to proponents of a Green New Deal. The move also kicked off a controversy as the six-term congresswoman dismissed calls to bar members who accept money from fossil fuel companies from serving on the committee, arguing it would violate free speech rights.
  
  Despite weeks of protests demanding House Democrats focus efforts next year on drafting a Green New Deal, the sort of sweeping economic policy that scientists say matches the scale of the climate crisis, Castor told E&E News the plan was “not going to be our sole focus.”
  
  She then suggested that barring members who have accepted donations from the oil, gas and coal industries from serving on the committee could be unconstitutional.
  
  Link
  vote for nobody
- December 20, 2018 at 8:52 PM #3070
  Ohio Barbarian
  Moderator
  Total Posts: 17,103
  So let me get this straight. It's OK for the Democratic leadership to rig elections and nominate whoever they wish, but it is unconstitutional for
  
  those same creatures to deny seats on a committee that addresses climate change to critters who are in the pockets of the oil and coal industries. Seems the “private club” as political party argument is glaringly and conveniently inconsistent.
  
  I think most of us expected something like this, but if the Vichy Dems think people like AOC and Bernie are just going to go away, they’re going to be very disappointed.
  It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
  
  Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.--Harry Truman
  - December 20, 2018 at 9:46 PM #3106
    ThouArtThat
    Participant
    
    Total Posts: 3,807
    We've Seen This All Before – Look At The New Boss – Same As The Old Boss
    
    When will we ever learn?
    
    The essence of normality is the refusal of reality.
    
    - Ernest Becker
    
    Politics is the entertainment division of the Military Industrial Complex.
    
    - Frank Zappa
    
    Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges.
    That's all we've ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges.
    
    - George Carlin
    
    Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.
    
    - Robert Louis Stevenson
- December 20, 2018 at 8:53 PM #3071
  Joe Shlabotnik
  Participant
  Total Posts: 865
  Dems are fighting to protect 1st amendment rights!
  
  ….for a handful of Corporate-peoples, not the little people.
  ~ All good things are Wild and Free ~
- December 20, 2018 at 8:55 PM #3072
  Cold Mountain Trail
  Participant
  Total Posts: 9,820
  same old same old: why democrats are tired of the democratic party revisited
  
  ..
- December 20, 2018 at 8:59 PM #3078
  NV Wino
  Moderator
  Total Posts: 5,872
  Reply To: Democrats Just Killed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Push For A Green New Deal Committee
  
  Oh, I’m sooo surprised! 😲
  “As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.” Barbara Lee
  “Politicians and pro athletes: The only people who still get paid when they lose.” William Rivers Pitt
  - December 20, 2018 at 9:07 PM #3086
    leftcoast mountains
    Participant
    
    Total Posts: 4,839
    Yeah I think AOC is learning from this latest crap. As time goes on her cynicism will continue to increase. I think she will realize supporting
    
    Pelosi was a mistake. Maybe she will become an Independent like Bernie!
    
    vote for nobody
    - December 20, 2018 at 9:59 PM #3115
      glinda
      Participant
      
      Total Posts: 804
      
      Hope she does not fold. Big mistake when they take up
      
      that mantel of “compromise“.
      
      Animals know more than we do.
    - December 20, 2018 at 11:25 PM #3134
      Jan Boehmerman
      Moderator
      
      Total Posts: 3,497
      
      Surprise is right!
    - December 21, 2018 at 8:17 AM #3199
      Average Gazoo
      Participant
      
      Total Posts: 470
      
      Davinci said "The only way to truly know something is to experiment"
      
      I think AOC will continue to try everything to expose and break up the corporatists and I will support her.
      
      Be the Change
- December 20, 2018 at 11:11 PM #3130
  JustSayin
  Participant
  Total Posts: 535
  As always
  
  NEIlibs are bigger enemy of us than any republican. It was Bill basturd Cliton that shoved NAFTA and it was Obama that stole 5.1mn homes
  Never expect different result by following the previous steps
- December 20, 2018 at 11:12 PM #3131
  Mick063
  Participant
  Total Posts: 578
  Oh goodie
  
  Free speech for a lifeless world.
  
  Hope we leave enough archeological finds for some alien race to discover that speech was “protected” for our donor class until the bitter end.
  
  Speaking of money as speech (ie. the argument for the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court), it is blatantly obvious that the Democratic Party has completely bought into the concept of money as a form of speech. In other words, the party has become too corrupt for us to ever hope for change from within.
  
  We are headed toward our own version of “Yellow Vests” folks.
  "I welcome their hatred" Franklin D Roosevelt
- December 21, 2018 at 7:28 AM #3194
  Enthusiast
  Participant
  Total Posts: 4,577
  Out OF Touch.
  
  The Democratic Party.
  I would like to remind you that U.S. health insurance companies do not contribute anything to health care. They are only a PARASITIC middle man receiving an undeserved cut of "FREE MONEY".
  
  Me
- December 21, 2018 at 7:47 AM #3197
  djean111
  Participant
  Total Posts: 4,624
  Not surprised – just still surprised at those who drone on and on about how we should just
  
  keep trying to elect progressives, and secondarily elect just any vichy Dem with a “D”, and that will eventually make things better. The DNC/Democratic Party is saying NO. We will strangle Progressive legislation in its infancy. How can anyone not see that, and how can anyone still be saying vote blue no matter who? That is to me (and IMO) the real trolling effort. The “oh I am a grownup and you people who won’t stay in the party and vote for the Democratic Party con-men are just babies” type of F***ery I read here at times. That is Brock crap.
- December 21, 2018 at 8:13 AM #3198
  Average Gazoo
  Participant
  Total Posts: 470
  I favor a multiprong strategy
  1. Chip away at the old guard from inside the Party’s rigged BS.
  2. Organize around issues and policy rather than people.
  3. Demand that other Parties be given equal access to ballots, debates, media and voters.
  Be the Change
Author

Posts

Total-Likes: 0

Viewing 9 reply threads

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.