Comrade Bernie Won’t Apologize For Supporting The Green New Deal. Rep Crenshaw Has Thoughts

Comrade Bernie is very proud

As Climate Change Dispatch notes

Not a single member of the Senate voted in favor of the proposal, and 43 Democrats — including Sanders — voted “present.”

Yet today, Sanders touts the Green New Deal on his presidential campaign website, promising that if elected, he will “generate the political will necessary for a wholesale transformation of our society,” do away with fossil fuels, guarantee the industry’s workers five years of their “current salary … as well as early retirement support for those who choose it or can no longer work,” and replace current energy sources with renewable industries that “will be publicly owned.”

Not even the main co-author of the GND, Senator Ed Markey, voted for it. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the co-author in the House, had a meltdown, forgetting that Ed submitted the GND to the Senate.

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