Well, she has her Duck Speak down pat
‘The existential threat of our time’: Pelosi elevates climate change on Day One
Democrats put climate change back on the forefront of their governing agenda Thursday, portraying the issue as an “existential threat” even as the caucus remains split over how forcefully to respond.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought up the issue in her opening address while touting a new select panel to come up with ideas on how to solve it, and the Energy and Commerce Committee announced that climate change would be the subject of its very first hearing this year. (snip)
The Democrats’ change in tone is evident in the name of the new panel. It is now called the “Select Committee on the Climate Crisis,” compared to a focus on “energy independence and global warming” when Democrats formed a similar panel was formed a decade ago.
“We must … face the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis,” Pelosi said in her opening address to Congress Thursday. “The entire Congress must work to put an end to the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future.”
By “we” she means you, as you do not see Pelosi calling on all Democrats to give up their own use of fossil fuels, for which most members use a lot. Heck, how much does Pelosi herself use to fly to and from California many times a year? You do not see her turning off the lights in the House and the members offices, which rely mostly on coal for energy, do you? Removing meat from the taxpayer funded cafeteria, do you? Telling members to take the bus or rail, do you? Living in tiny homes or living together, do you? How about lowering the temp in the House and member offices to 62?
And while people might say they care about ‘climate change’, they care a lot, lot, lot more about other issues over it. It really is a minor issue on the list of things people care about. The majority of people who are actually trying to Do Something (meaning forcing Other People to comply) wouldn’t be negatively affected by the policies, because they are rich. Like Pelosi.
