#NoMoreExcuses: Mass Action on Capitol Hill to Demand Dems Back Green New Deal.....

[guillaumeb]

#NoMoreExcuses: Mass Action on Capitol Hill to Demand Dems Back Green New Deal Instead of Fossil Fuel Interests

Thanks to the committed leadership of the youth-led Sunrise Movement and more than 100 other social justice and climate action groups, over the past two weeks 22 Democratic members of the House have now joined the call for presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to form a Select Committee.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/10/nomoreexcuses-mass-action-capitol-hill-demand-dems-back-green-new-deal-instead?cd-

A Green New Deal could act like the earlier New Deal that FDR implemented.

A Green New Deal could also energize some of the "both parties are the same" voters.

A Green New Deal could be the source of millions of new jobs insulating homes, replacing inefficient windows and doors, installing solar panels, and many other jobs related to using less energy and using far less petroleum products.

[gratuitous]

1. "Demand"?

Looks like they're trying to build a framework to formulate policy and move toward a consensus. That's not really a "demand." It's working within the system to achieve a desired goal. One of the ways to do that is to create a select committee, gather information (documentary and testimonial) and using the best information available to make policy proposals.

[guillaumeb]

2. The headlines can be hyperbolic, I agree.

But it serves to attract interest.

But, given the seriousness of the issue, it is also necessary to act as quickly as possible. GOP inaction merely lessens the time available to take action.

[WhiteTara]

3. They need to be over there demanding that from republicons

they are preaching to the choir and need to get the others on board. Stunning.

[Andy823]

5. Exactly

Lots of hype about "demanding" things be done, yet facts say otherwise. Like you said if they need to go after republicans not democrats!

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. K&R

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Talk about farting in windstorms . . . . .