Hayward: ‘Moderate’ Democrats Put On a Green New Deal Kabuki Show

Conventional wisdom holds that relatively moderate, or at least politically savvy, leaders in the Democrat Party are horrified by the rollout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put AOC in her place when she “threw shade” at the program (as CNN put it) by sniffing disdainfully that “nobody knows what it is.”

Do not believe this kabuki theater for an instant. The Green New Deal (GND) holds all the power Pelosi and Democrat peers have dreamed about seizing for their entire lives. They will take as much of it as they can get.

For one thing, consider Pelosi’s entire shade-throwing quote: “It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive. The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”

Does anyone remember the last gigantic power grab Pelosi claimed to know very little about? It was called the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. Pelosi infamously chirped that Congress would have to pass the bill so Americans could “find out what’s in it.”

To put it mildly, she does not have a problem with poorly crafted legislation, as long as it has soaring left-wing ambitions.

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