Senate blocks Green New Deal - Polidicks

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/435899-senate-blocks-green-new-deal The Senate voted 0-57 on taking up the resolution, with 43 Democrats voting "present."

I think this was expected to happen from the start. The proposal was more to send a message then to actually see if it would get passed in its current state. They'll probably revise it a bit and then send it back over to the senate for real if we get a democrat into the whitehoust on 2020.

Well I guess that's one way to show solidarity, rather than having some Democrats vote for it and some against.

AFAIK the only reason McConnell brought this up for a vote was to own the libs because he knew some Dems wouldn't vote for it and it would cause division, so all Dems agreeing to just vote 'present' is a pretty smart move

"those democrats want you to jump off the deep end and kill the economy!" as opposed to uh when global warming kills the economy? how many years can we spend hundreds of billions rebuilding from disaster? how much gdp can we keep throwing away ignoring the problem caused by our industry?

I agree. Red state senstors dodge a bullet and the GOP go on record as wanting to fuck over the world

The republican party is nothing but traitors, isn't it. It blocks EVERYTHING from being voted on.

They voted on it...

They only vote on things now that advance their agenda. They knew the Dems didn't have the votes so of course they let it go through just so that it would hurt their election campaigns.

But they still held a vote... Which is fundamentally different from refusing to allow a vote.

Aye, but that wasn't my claim to defend nor one I'm making. The only real difference here though is that it was used as an attempted bludgeoning instrument rather than just 'nope, not scheduling it'. As far as 'intent to harm the Democrat party' it's still 100% locked-on-target.

misread it hard, but my point still stand, they still block everything.

It didn't pass because the Democrats didn't have the support to pass it. I think the Republicans are garbage but this is not "blocking" a vote, this is just the Democrats introducing a bill that they couldn't pass. Bills constantly fail to pass.

A bill that was doomed to pass isn't the same thing as a bill that was refused to be called to a vote. But if the net effect of both things is 'party X isn't allowed to have new laws/policies' then it's the same thing. I agree it's not blocking -- but not blocking it still serves the same end-goal but without the loss of any political face which is why they didn't block it.

Thanks for all the fish, and thanks for destroying our planet. Doug Jones is starting to look like the Macron of Alabama.

The Green new deal was a very poor and unrealistic piece of legislation but atleast it was something. Unsurprising this died on the floor though, especially since it never had enough support in the first place.

How are Warren, Harris, Booker, and Gillibrand going to maintain their progressive image given that they didn't vote yes? And why in the world did Sanders not vote yes? I get the "party unity" excuse, but Sanders isn't even in the party, and that seems to be one of his strong suits to some voters.

All those billions won't exist when the power cuts out and the banks are flooded by the ocean. And they won't be worth shit anyway when society has collapsed. Better start saving up bottlecaps.

it wasn't a piece of legislation. this was a white paper that mcconnell pushed for a full vote knowing absolutely no details had been worked out or refined on purpose.