Epoch Times:
WASHINGTON—Republican office-holders need to stop trying to appease the left on climate-related issues by embracing ideas such as a watered-down version of the prohibitively expensive Green New Deal, participants heard July 25 at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by the Heartland Institute in Washington.
For example, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has been a “tried and true defender of President Trump—nevertheless, I wish he’d defend President Trump on this very important issue,” said James Taylor, a senior fellow at the Chicago-based Heartland Institute.
“Going to the left on climate change is not a winning political issue,” Taylor said, adding that Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Reps. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) have been reaching out to their political adversaries to achieve a compromise on climate remediation, where no reasonable compromise can likely be found.
“There are still a few Republicans, a few policymakers here in D.C., who have come out supporting, whether it’s a Green New Deal light or some other form of a watered-down version of the GND.”
President Donald Trump has attacked the proposed Green New Deal, which left-wing activists and politicians tout as a way to revitalize the economy and as a necessary step to secure the planet’s future. Critics say it would radically restructure the U.S. economy and wipe out trillions of dollars in wealth.
The Green New Deal will “kill millions of jobs,” the president said earlier this month.
“It’ll crush the dreams of the poorest Americans and disproportionately harm minority communities. I will not stand for it. We will defend the environment, but we will also defend American sovereignty, American prosperity, and we will defend American jobs,” Trump said.
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I don’t care if global warming (the original name) is real and man-made. The solutions being offered are nothing but organized theft, and they are no solution. Nothing proposed would have any beneficial impact – and in fact they are taking funds away from environmental cleanups that actually would be beneficial.
If they could actually justify anything, well, but they have no interest in that, just our wallets.
The only “green” I’M worried about, is more “green” in my WALLET.
Geenie Weenie Deals, achieve the exact OPPOSITE. 😡
“reaching out….compromise”…..we’re screwed.
Don’t stare at Greta ‘Children Of The Corn’ Thunberg, the wee leader of the bull weather report.
Excepting Lindsey to go full American would be a stretch. He’s in ‘deep’.
Hey, how about a chartreuse new deal?
But if we don’t pay the government carbon taxes we’re all gonna die someday.
Lindsey Graham is just another swamp creature slithering around trying to pretend he’s not.
Stop trying to appease madness. It NEVER works.
Awe, Billy, can’t we have a Light Thulian Pink Deal?
No, no! How about Atomic Tangerine???
Why stop at climate change? What exactly is “the Left” right about on anything? Rejecting the entire Leftist agenda would really help MAGA.
The GOP is too swamp infested to ever trust it again. Follow individual candidates, and work to vote out the mcconnells whenever you can.
Every serious scientist knows the globe only warms due to the excessive presence of fairy dust particles in the atmosphere! No man made program or device can alter this in the slighest!
One only has to compare the progression of the “Impeach Trump” crowd with the AGW crowd to see the tactics and the craziness are identical.
For some topics compromise is ok. For other topics it is not ok. CC is a prime example of where it doesn’t work, because there is no positive benefit, and a compromise shouldn’t be made.
What action to take to fight CC is similar to 6 thugs, debating whether to gang rape a group of 3 women (or a group of 3 males now days). The six thugs are a group of 3 democrats & 3 republicans. The right thing to do is to not do it at all, and beat up the person who suggested it done. The compromise is to only rape one or 2 of them or only rape all of them only one time vs multiple times. That is situation where a compromise would also be a complete failure to do the right thing.