If you make a left at radical liberalism and another left turn towards Crazytown, you’ll quickly reach Bonkers Plaza where the loonies have landed and planted the flag for the Green New Deal.
Oh look, there’s U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, the lone Coloradan crazy enough to join with the new Democratic Wing of WTF, led by socialist socialite U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
As we reported earlier, the resolution wants to ban air travel, refurbish every building in the U.S. that doesn’t meet strict windmill and sun roof codes, and pay for it all by ordering Treasury to just print up a bunch of trillion dollar bills.
The bill is so spectacularly outrageous by plain old liberal standards, U.S. Reps. Dianna DeGette, Ed Perlmutter and Jason Crow didn’t even sign on as original sponsors.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet also thought better of it, at least while he’s campaigning for president.
The congressman from Boulder stands alone, and says this new dealy thing is the only way to “heal our planet” and “counteract systemic racial, regional, social and economic injustices.”
Killing farting cows and returning us to the Stone Age is their answer.
We can’t wait to see what kind of health care solutions are ushered in by this millennial class of lawmakers.
We expect it will include leeches and bloodletting.