Call it toilet humor, but AOC's outrageous Green New Deal is the basest joke this country has heard in a long time, with people on both sides of the aisle crapping their pants in laughter.
Politics is a dirty business, and you shouldn't make a career of it unless you're willing to have your dirty laundry hung up for all the world to see. (Author's note: the freshman Congresswoman's full name doesn't merit spelling out; that's just a waste of keystrokes.) One would think AOC might learn something from this debacle, but I doubt it. One would also think that the Democrats in general would have learned something about honesty, but that's obviously not the case either.
When AOC first yanked the microphone from her smarter, more experienced colleagues back when to put the attention on me, me, me...and spell out a new environmental, economic and social plan for America that rivals anything Rod Serling or H.G. Wells could ever come up with...everyone asked the hard questions as to how any of this was possible without the country's total collapse, but AOC didn't have even soft answers to any of them. This was to be expected, but the big surprise (I think it was a surprise; you tell me), is how deeply her Democratic fellowship doubled down and backed this nonsense. Sort of. When the cameras were on, anyway.
Also worth noting is that nowadays, it's hardly necessary to use the distinction "progressive" to characterize certain Democrats. The entire party is now officially progressive, from top to bottom. They just haven't officially changed their name yet. The "new" Democratic Party policy seems to be unity uber alles, anything to defeat Trump, as if unity is all it will take to take down the most...More
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