Green New Deal = Betrayal

 

Green New Deal = Betrayal

Mike Walker, Col USMC (ret)

The Green New Deal betrays America and Americans as there is only one clear winner if that insane policy is enacted: socialist communist China.

 

 Harsh words, yes, but here is why: 

 

If the New Green New Deal were enacted then in its wake the world will have MORE greenhouse gases in the atmosphere than today. After the Green New Deal, the ill effects of climate change on the planet will be WORSE – not better.

 

To explain that, here is a short history lesson:

 

Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States have been declining since their peak in 2007 at 7.3 billion metric tons (CO2 equiv.). In 2018 US emissions fell to 6.2 billion metric tons and already is predicted to fall to 5 billion metric tons by 2030 without the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal only adds to that decline. But with or without the New Green Deal, in the end it all achieves nothing. Again, why?

 

Because of China. China is the world’s most polluted land, has the most polluted waters and most polluted skies, and the number one nation in the world when it comes to dumping plastic trash into the ocean. 

 

Most of all, China is the far and away the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases.

China’s uncontrolled growth in CO2 emissions undoes everything we do – to include everything the New Green Deal claims to do. 

 

In 1990, China produced 3.2 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2004, China surpassed the United States at largest greenhouse gas polluter in the world. By 2018, China generated 13.5 billion metric tons (more than double US emissions). China is projected reach the level of 15.3 billion metric tons by 2030 and continue to increase its rate of pollution afterwards.

 

(BTW, India also is becoming a major greenhouse gas polluter and by 2030 will only rank behind China as the world’s greatest polluter)

 

China’s actions mean the Green New Deal will utterly fail to make the global environment better in the future and what do we in America get?

 

-- the addition of $ Trillions in new debt that hastens the collapses of the Federal budget (and “hurray!” say small-government advocates) 

-- the creation of the biggest waste-fraud-and-abuse Washington pork barrel in American history (with              much of it having nothing to do with reducing greenhouse gas emissions)

-- the crippling of local economies from coast to coast 

-- ignorant and power-hungry Washington DC politicians picking economic winners and losers

-- power outages worse than those in third world countries (see: California)

-- millions of innocent Americans thrown into the unemployment ranks and poverty…

 

…and all that pain and suffering to pursue a fool’s errand. Good Grief!

 

So that gets us back to the beginning: Who most benefits from the Green New Deal? 

 

Socialist communist China! China will not go into debt or destroy millions of jobs or suffer power outages or have its economy ripped apart. No! China just keeps on keeping on. All the pain is endured by Americans and for no gain.

 

Now, I am not arguing to raise your hands in despair and do nothing. To the contrary. If we are serious then America need to do two things to reduce global greenhouse gases:

 

(1) Do everything in our power to compel China to reduce its polluting and make Beijing truly become a good citizen of the world.

 

(2) Continue to take prudent, reasoned and effective measures to reduce our greenhouse emissions that do not harm innocent Americans or damage our economy.

 

Sadly, that reckless and senseless harm and damage is the exact outcome we will get if the Green New Deal becomes law. 

 

For American socialist politicians to lie to the American people about what will come from their New Green Deal is unforgivable.

 

For American socialist politicians to put the interests of socialist communist China ahead of the United States and its people is both unforgivable and a betrayal of our nation.

JUSTICE ALITO TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

JUSTICE ALITO TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

Paul Mirengoff, Powerline

I’m a huge fan of Justice Samuel Alito. His speech to the Federalist Society this week, delivered virtually, is a good example of why.

Alito’s message was that key American rights are in jeopardy. He noted, for example, that the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has resulted in previously “unimaginable” restrictions on individual liberty. “We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020,” he stated.

Alito was careful to emphasize that he wasn’t diminishing the “severity of the virus’ threat to public health” or even taking a position on whether the restrictions are good public policy. However, he argued that the restrictions on public gatherings and worship services highlighted “trends that were already present before the virus struck,” including a “dominance of lawmaking by executive fiat” rather than by legislators and the relegation of certain rights to second class status.

Religious rights, for example. Alito homed in on the decision of Nevada to limit church attendance to 50 people, while reopening large casinos to 50 percent capacity. “It pains me to say to it, but in certain quarters religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right,” he concluded.

Take a quick look at the Constitution,” Alito urged. “You will see the free exercise clause of the First Amendment, which protects religious liberty. You will not find a craps clause, or a blackjack clause, or a slot machine clause.”

When it comes to same sex marriage, both religious and free speech rights are in jeopardy. As Alito noted:

[These days] you can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman without fear of reprisal from schools, government and employers. Until very recently, that’s what the vast majority of Americans thought. Now it’s considered bigotry.

Alito delivered a well-deserved shot at the execrable Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. He pointed to a recent brief filed by the Senator and four colleagues in a case regarding a New York City firearms transportation ordinance. Whitehouse and his colleagues said that a pro-gun ruling would further incite the growing movement to “restructure” the Court. Alito accurately described the brief as “extraordinary,” and added “I could say something about standards of professional conduct, but the brief involved something even more important — it was an affront to the Constitution and the rule of law.”

As the Washington Post acknowledges, the Whitehouse brief was criticized even by some Democrats as too threatening. And the late Justice Ginsburg denounced the idea of court packing — the threat through which Whitehouse was trying to intimidate the Court.

Alito’s address has drawn howls from the left, as the Justice anticipated it would. For example, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern condemned the speech as “bitter[ly] partisan” and as “[f]louting [Alito’s] ethical obligations.” However, the speech raises no problems of judicial ethics.

As Ed Whelan painstakingly shows, on all the matters that Stern finds controversial, the speech broadly reiterates what Alito has already spelled out in his written opinions. By contrast, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s speeches, the ones that used to draw gushing praise from the left, addressed open issues on which the justice hadn’t yet ruled — e.g., same sex marriage and President Trump’s tax returns.

Elizabeth Warren also slammed Justice Alito’s speech. She tweeted:

Supreme Court Justices aren’t supposed to be political hacks. This right-wing speech is nakedly partisan. My bill to #EndCorruptionNow restores some integrity to our Court by forcing Justices to follow the ethics rules other federal judges follow.

This is an admission by Warren that Alito’s speech did not violate existing ethical rules for Supreme Court Justices. Hence, the mindless, empty name-calling.

Along with Justice Thomas, Justice Alito has fought valiantly on behalf of our constitutional rights. And starting this term, I expect that they will be ably aided in the struggle by Justice Barrett.