Democrats are setting up the table with a new narrative for 2019 and 2020. It is increasingly apparent that they’re planning a hard push on climate change. It’s all about the “Green New Deal” being advanced by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
It’s not difficult to see where this is headed. There have been some blatant examples of setting the new narrative in the last few days.
One was Chuck Todd of Meet the Press, who devoted his show Sunday to climate change and announced that “deniers” would not be given airtime.
Victor Morton writes at the Washington Times:
NBC News host says no air time for climate ‘deniers’ on “Meet the Press’: ‘Science is settled’NBC News has decided that climate change is no longer an issue that has two sides.Sunday’s episode of “Meet the Press” with Chuck Todd featured an hourlong panel with lawmakers and scientists about the consequences of climate change. But at the start, Mr. Todd said his show is “not going to give time to climate deniers” and went on to inaccurately characterize the nature of the climate debate.“Just as important as what we are going to do is what we’re not going to do,” he said. “We’re not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The earth is getting hotter, and human activity is a major cause. Period.”“We’re not going to give time to climate deniers,” Mr. Todd added. “The science is settled even if political opinion is not.”Skeptics about some of the most alarmist climate-change scenarios drawn by former Vice President Al Gore and other Democratic and left-wing politicians bristle at the word “denier,” claiming it implies parallels to people who claim the Holocaust or the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks didn’t happen.
Todd is clearing the decks for AOC and the new House Democrats. He is clearly signalling that questioning the new agenda will be off-limits.
One of his guests was California Governor Jerry Brown, who compared the issue of climate change to the challenges we faced in World War II.
Ben Kamisar reports at NBC News:
Jerry Brown: Climate change challenges as serious as those faced in World War IICalifornia Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown warned that America and the rest of the world are falling behind in the fight against climate change and likened the challenge to fighting the Nazis in World War II.In an interview for Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” the outgoing governor called on President Donald Trump to take the lead in addressing the issue. “Instead of worrying about tariffs, I’d like to see the president and the Congress invest tens of billions in renewable energy, in more-efficient batteries, to get us off fossil fuel as quickly as we can,” Brown said.”I would point to the fact that it took Roosevelt many, many years to get America willing to go into World War II and fight the Nazis. Well, we have an enemy, though different, but perhaps, very much devastating in a similar way. And we’ve got to fight climate change. And the president’s got to lead on that.”
And what does the “Green New Deal” look like? Gird your loins.
Justin Haskins writes at FOX News:
If Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ succeeds in 2019 it will be the most radical plan offered in decadesAlthough the broad talking points of the plan have been circulating for months, it wasn’t until recently that Ocasio-Cortez provided any details of her proposal. On December 3, according to The Atlantic, Ocasio-Cortez spoke at a town hall led by Sanders and declared, “This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil-rights movement of our generation.”The specifics have still not been worked out, but what we know so far about her plan is that it would have catastrophic economic consequences, dramatically increase America’s already skyrocketing debt, and transform the United States into a European-style socialist nation. (And no, these are not exaggerations.)In a draft resolution to create a House select committee that would be responsible for writing the Green New Deal legislation, Ocasio-Cortez outlines the primary goals of her plan. Among them, Ocasio-Cortez proposes eliminating all fossil-fuel-powered electricity, closing every coal and natural gas power plant in the country, thus destroying the hundreds of thousands of jobs related to these businesses. Even more stunning, all this would occur by 2030, just 10 years after Ocasio-Cortez expects the legislation to be completed.In its place, nearly all energy would be produced by renewable sources of power, especially wind and solar. This goal would create massive amounts of economic harm. Although economists have yet to provide an analysis of Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to eliminate all fossil fuels, other studies have found less-extreme policies would be absolutely devastating.
This battle isn’t in our distant future. It begins the day the Democrats are handed the keys to the House and they will surely have the media on their side. Get ready.
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