Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was already mad that the U.S. Senate was going to be debating and voting on her Green New Deal resolution, because how dare lawmakers do that! Notice that co-sponsor, Sen. Ed Markey, is mostly quiet about this, because he’s a pro and understands how the political game is played. AOC was also ticked that they’d dare do this in the Senate because it was a House resolution! Totally forgetting that Markey is a Senator, and submitted it to the Senate. Anyhow
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is on the Senate floor right now discussing @AOC and @SenMarkey's Green New Deal.
These are not photoshopped. pic.twitter.com/j8YWahtR1j
— Waleed Shahid ???? (@_waleedshahid) March 26, 2019
A bit of text to go with that
(Salt Lake Tribune) To poke fun at a liberal plan to tackle climate change, Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday took to the Senate floor with a poster of President Ronald Reagan riding a dinosaur while firing a machine gun.
No joke.
The Utah Republican, a serious conservative not generally known for prop-supported political stunts, said his point was that the Democrats’ Green New Deal was as absurd as the poster he was showing.
“I rise today to consider the green new deal with the seriousness it deserves,†Lee said.
Wait, it gets better
“I’m not immediately afraid of what the Green New Deal would do to our economy and our government,†Lee said. “After all, this isn’t going to pass, not today, not any time soon certainly. Rather, after reading the Green New Deal, I’m mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.â€
“The aspirations of the proposal have been called radical. They have been called extreme,†Lee added. “But mostly they’re ridiculous. There isn’t a single serious idea here. Not one.â€
So, Rep Thin Skin had a fit
GOP Senators are using their Congressional allowances to print Aquaman posters for themselves to argue that a #GreenNewDeal saving our nation from climate change is a ‘waste of money’ ???? https://t.co/iMNY0dJmCy
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 26, 2019
She then went and played the Female Victim Card
Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right.
But then they do things like this to clear it right up.
If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything.
She’s really not ready to swim in the deep end with the big kids with this kind of whining.
The Daily Caller has the video of Lee’s speech, well worth the watch.
The vote was 0-57 for moving it forward, with 43 Democrats voting present, and Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and Angus King (I-Maine) voting with Republicans against the measure.
