Climate change is the greatest threat facing this planet.
Even though a majority of voters want Congress to take action, the Democrats have blown it
again.
Okay.
Remember our discussion?
How many times, okay, well let me, let me just say, Democrats win the house, right?
And we're looking for, okay, you love Cortez.
I'm not too sure about Cortez yet.
Votes aren't in.
I kind of like her stuff, but one thing that she did a great job, I mean really she ran
on the idea of the Green New Deal and she was out there doing such an incredibly important
job saying the Green New Deal matters and if you put us in charge, we're going to make
it work.
Okay.
I love that about her.
I mean it was just such a smart approach and in there what she was doing little by little
is she's alienating the other older Democrats, which I love too because they are dinosaurs.
Yeah.
She's alienating Pelosi, Schumer, everybody that I think is a total waste in Congress
should have been gone years ago.
I love Cortez is doing that.
She's trying to shake some stuff up.
Cenk Uygur with, you know, one of our partners at TYT, thinks she's one of the most brilliant
young politicians coming up.
I'm still watching.
I'm not, you know, I always, I always hold reservations for a little while, but anyway,
she did this right.
Okay.
Congress, Democrats take over.
They put together the committee that is supposed to take over the climate change problem, right?
Pick it, pick it up from there.
Well, they, you know, Pelosi actually was never one of the signers onto the Green New
Deal as you mentioned.
And we had dozens of members of Congress before she even created this committee that we're
pushing for the creation of the Green New Deal committee.
You know, put Ocasio-Cortez on it, put people like Ro Khanna on it, the people who believe
it.
Ro Khanna by the way is brilliant.
He is, he's definitely somebody to...
Ro Khanna, Ro Khanna is a guy, him and Merkley.
Yet Merkley.
Merkley, I mean those two, I mean, you gotta, we better follow them.
Yeah.
Ro Khanna is somebody to, to deal with.
But anyway, go ahead.
And so Pelosi comes along and says, well, this could, you know, this might effect some
donors.
So here, okay, I'll, I'll throw you a bone here.
I'll recreate the committee that I made back in 2007.
That was completely ineffective and what I'll do for you here is also make it even more
ineffective than it was back in '07 by stripping you of all your power and not putting actual
progressive's on this committee.
No no, the 2000 committee wasn't only ineffective, it took us the other way.
Right.
It took us the other way.
That was the Pelosi committee.
Okay.
So, okay, here's what really grabbed me about this story.
Pelosi doesn't put Cortez on the committee.
Yeah.
Okay.
Cortez is out there.
She's calling attention to climate change.
She's got the Green New Deal as part of, of her discussion.
Ro Khanna is out there, same thing.
They're all, all the people that we should embrace and we should help in every way we
can.
None of those people show up because they are a threat to the dinosaurs, to the democratic
dinosaurs.
You know what?
Now, I'm not taking much exception with what you said, but you said, or the article at
least leads you to believe that the committee in 2007 is basically the same committee that
we have in 2019.
That is true.
As a matter of fact, the, on the new committee, the minority whip got to appoint 6 of the
15.
Why do you think that it looked like?
Right?
Okay.
More importantly on the new committee, they've taken away subpoena power.
There is no subpoena power.
The committee, okay, here's what the committee can't do.
A, they can't write legislation.
B, they can't even propose legislation.
C, they can't subpoena all the bad guys to find out what's really going on.
D, they have, they have Chinese walls up about what they're able to discuss about climate
change.
The fact is it's a joke.
Pelosi is a joke.
Pelosi knows this is, this is a giveaway.
Oh, here's something else.
D, or E, wherever we are, they're able to raise money from the fossil fuel industry.
Now, did I miss anything?
No.
That pretty much sums up all of, all of this crazy and look, we just got reports, actually
multiple reports in the last few months, the last year saying we have 12 years and then
we're screwed, basically on climate change.
Twelve years.
That's it to do something.
Pelosi...
Wait, explain that.
You've written a lot on climate change that you write for DeSmogBlog as well as the National
Trial Journal, talk about, people don't understand this completely.
Right.
If we do not reverse course within 12 years significantly, we cannot stave off the 1.5
degree Celsius warming, and the bigger issue is that 12 years is as of right now.
If we continue on for another year or two, that number 12 is going to drop down to about
6 or 7.
So you know, as we continue to not act, the number of years we have left, obviously time
ticks on, it goes down, but the warming gets worse, so the timetable goes down.
We've got about five years realistically.
And in light of that, Nancy Pelosi basically, there's no other way to put it, she deep sixed
climate change.
She deep six it, along with all the leadership up there.
I mean, you know.
And for no reason.
You know, we used to talk through the entire Obama administration.
We had a list hanging on the wall of everything the Democrats caved to Republicans on in order
to "make a deal."
Good point.
She didn't have to make a deal.
She did this on her own.
Capitulating to no one because that's her standard position.
In other words, in other words, there used to be an argument, well we're not really in
control.
We have to get right.
She doesn't have to get along.
This was her baby.
She could've made it whatever she wanted it to be.
And instead says, uh, I'm used to backing off things, so let me just water it down.
Yeah, I am a total failure.
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