{"id":299649,"date":"2019-02-13T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=299649"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T20:58:33","slug":"the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ve got to mention this because it\u2019s a gigantic See, I Told You So. Oh, and, by the way, I mentioned yesterday, this was happening right as the program was nearing its conclusion and I didn\u2019t get a chance to extrapolate and analyze it. But The Turtle called for a vote in the Senate on the Green New Deal, and the Democrats are having a cow! Ed Markey, who is the Senate cosponsor of the Green New Deal with Ocasio-Cortez is livid that he\u2019s calling a vote on it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Wait a minute. I thought we had 12 years to save the planet? I thought urgency was called for? Here\u2019s The Turtle saying, you guys say we\u2019ve got 12 years, we better get a vote on this. I mean, clearly The Turtle is trying to kill this, and they understand it. I am evolving a new theory to explain what\u2019s really going on with this Green New Deal, too, because remember it gets presented as a talking point, a frequently asked question report which has all this business in it about banning airplane travel in 10 years and rebuilding every American building and all these high-speed rails.<\/p>\n

Oh! Gavin Newsom, in the most liberal state in the country, has canceled the high-speed rail plan from San Francisco to Los Angeles<\/a>. He announced it in the state of the state message yesterday. They\u2019re canceling it because they don\u2019t have the money. It\u2019s not scheduled to be finished, if they went ahead with it, \u2019til 2030 or something. They don\u2019t have the money. And yet here\u2019s the Green New Deal authorizing high-speed rail everywhere airplanes now go?<\/p>\n

This thing was never been supposed to see the light of day. Somebody did and now they\u2019ve yanked it and everybody\u2019s denying that that frequently asked question summary of this thing was active. I think they had a different purpose in mind with this that\u2019s kind of gotten blown up. And now with The Turtle calling for a vote on it it\u2019s blowing up even more.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the Green New Deal or the New Green Deal or whatever it is. Senator Ed Markey… Do we have a sound bite? Did I just go past this not intending to? Hang on a minute. Ed Markey is the Senate cosponsor of the Green New Deal along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the House of Representatives. By the way, she\u2019s found a new place to live. She was complaining that she wasn\u2019t gonna have a place to live before she was sworn in \u2019cause she didn\u2019t have any money and wasn\u2019t being paid her salary or anything.<\/p>\n

\"\"It turns out she\u2019s found a very exclusive place in the Navy Yard area of Washington, D.C., a very exclusive series of buildings where even studio apartments cost two grand a month, and that supposedly is where she\u2019s living. And she doesn\u2019t find anything hypocritical about. Of course not! There is hypocrisy that ever attaches to Democrats. Anyway, The Turtle, Mitch McConnell, shocked everybody yesterday by calling for a vote on the Green New Deal.<\/p>\n

I got some reaction from people. “Why is he doing this? Why is he legitimizing this? Why in the world? Why not just let this thing fade away? The Democrats are in the process running away from it.” I said, “That\u2019s the point! The Turtle doesn\u2019t want them to get away with running away from it.” The brief history of the Green New Deal. The original presentation of the Green New Deal was actually a fact sheet of Frequently Asked Questions. It was a summary, and it was the summary that contained details like high-speed rail to replace airplane travel in 10 years — which, of course, led to all kinds of jokes.<\/p>\n

“Hey, could I get the first first class seat on the train to Hawaii?” It even led to a Hawaii senator to say, “Well, now, wait a minute. How do we gonna get home here if they cancel airplanes?” And then there was gonna be all this high-speed rail and it was gonna replace all air travel. And then there was gonna be money for everybody for everything, including those unwilling to work. Well, this got the reaction that you would expect it would get.<\/p>\n

People were perplexed and surprised and stunned, in the first place being told that we\u2019ve only got 12 years to do any of this or we\u2019re all cooked, and then the specific proposals. I mean, the reaction was what you would want it to be: Outrage, disgust, disbelief. Except among some Millennials. They thought it was great. My tech blog Millennial people… Many of them didn\u2019t even write about it. I think it embarrassed them. But some of them thought it was a great set of objectives.<\/p>\n

Well, Cortez came out and immediately sent her staff out to lie on Fox News and other places and claim, “We didn\u2019t write that. That\u2019s a Republican satire. We didn\u2019t write that. That\u2019s not us. You that\u2019s a Frequently Asked Questions bit.” They lied through their teeth. They did write it. But when attention was focused… See, I\u2019m not sure this was ever meant to be seen publicly. There\u2019s something about this that\u2019s got me thinking that something went wrong in the publicizing.<\/p>\n

I think they were just gonna announce “Green New Deal,” but there was not supposed to be anything specific. I think it was supposed to serve an entirely different purpose. I think it was meant to get a big splash as Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s first serious legislative proposal. But we weren\u2019t supposed to get any details. It was supposed to get a splash, and then it was supposed to disappear, because I don\u2019t believe that the liberals have gotten to the point where…<\/p>\n

\"\"Even though they\u2019re unmasking themselves on abortion and they\u2019re removing all the camouflage on endless spending, I don\u2019t think that they really think they\u2019re safe enough here to announce that they have a plan to get rid of airplane travel in 10 years. They\u2019re not… I don\u2019t doubt that if these young kids think that\u2019s what\u2019s necessary to continue the earth being habitable, that they would try for it. I mean, I think there\u2019s so much derangement and lunacy. I mean, these kids, the Cortez types…<\/p>\n

I mean, they are the adult versions of everybody gets a trophy, everybody is wonderful, everybody\u2019s perfect. You\u2019re just the best — and you\u2019re also a victim. I think they\u2019ve grown up with all this self-esteem around them and thinking that they are smart and qualified and that these are the adult versions of what happens to kids when you raise them with all kinds of distortions. So some of them think this is wonderful, great stuff. But others — you know, the adults — Pelosi and the rest, don\u2019t want to go anywhere near this.<\/p>\n

So I think it was supposed to get a big splash and her first legislative proposal would then disappear. But The Turtle, realizing what he had here, said (laughing), “Oh, we\u2019re not gonna let this disappear. We\u2019re gonna call a vote on this! We\u2019re gonna make people stand up and go ‘yes\u2019 or ‘no\u2019 on this.” That caused Ed Markey, who is the Democrat sponsor of the bill to say, “Don\u2019t let…” He tweeted, “Don\u2019t let Mitch McConnell fool you: this is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the movement we are building.<\/p>\n

“He wants to silence your voice so Republicans don\u2019t have to explain why they are climate change deniers. McConnell wants this to be the end…” So if I\u2019m to understand Markey, The Turtle is sabotaging the Green New Deal by holding a vote on it? Stop and think of that. By publicizing it and calling for a vote on it, Ed Markey says that McConnell is sabotaging it. It\u2019s classic! You know, Trump was elected because he didn\u2019t pretend to respect Democrat phonies. Now McConnell, I think, is getting in on the act a little.<\/p>\n

McConnell is pulling a Trump here. This is very Trumpian what The Turtle did. He\u2019s shoving the Green New Deal right down Democrats\u2019 throats, and he\u2019s got the Democrat sponsor claiming that calling a vote on it and publicizing it and letting people vote “yes” or “no” on it is sabotaging it? The Turtle said, “I\u2019ve noted with great interest the Green New Deal, and we\u2019re going to be voting on that in the Senate. I\u2019ll give everybody an opportunity to go on record and see how they feel about the Green New Deal.”<\/p>\n

So now voting on something that Ocasio-Cortez has made her career on is a stunt? This couldn\u2019t have worked out any better. They\u2019re all claiming that McConnell is sabotaging it by publicizing it, sabotaging by calling a vote on it. Calling a vote on it is a stunt. I mean, the Democrats can give lengthy tributes on the floor of the Senate and they go on television and they can crazily advocate for the elimination of a combustion engine within 10 years, they can do all, but let somebody call attention to it other than them, and they freak out.<\/p>\n

You have to laugh at them paying tribute. All these presidential candidates signing onto this. So far 70 Democrats, sight unseen, have signed on to the Green New Deal, paying tribute to the world\u2019s most accomplished and smartest bartender, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Who still hasn\u2019t accomplished anything of substance other than getting elected, which is no mean feat, but she did it with a 4% turnout.<\/p>\n

\"\"Did you know that? Four percent turnout in her district? That\u2019s how much it was assumed that that old Jurassic Park guy, Joe Crowley, was gonna win reelection, only 4% turned out! Democrats ought to be thanking The Turtle profusely. Look what the Democrats do. They shame people who eat eggs. They shame cows for farting. They shame people who eat beef. They shame people who have plus sized Diet Cokes. They shame people that have cars. They praise people unwilling to work. They praise people who feed off the public teat.<\/p>\n

And now they can thank Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for giving the Democrats the opportunity to explain how they\u2019re gonna destroy the United States economy in order to save the planet. So McConnell calls for a vote on it. And Markey, complaining about his own legislation, don\u2019t let Mitch McConnell fool you. It\u2019s nothing but an attempt to sabotage it. How can voting on it and calling attention to it be sabotaging? I love it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Richard in Pompano Beach, Florida, hi. You\u2019re next as we hit the phones. How you doing, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Infinite dittos. Hey, just wanted to mention I think we need a big wedge issue with the Millennials and the Green New Deal, and I think one of the ways to do that is just calling to him, “If it goes through, there\u2019s no more container ships coming from other continents. That\u2019s done. They run on gas. No more iPhones, no more Samsungs, no more phones made outside the U.S. So we\u2019d have to move it into the U.S. and they could become $2,000, $3,000 per phone — or more.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: That actually is not a bad idea, folks. I have to tell you that if you ban fossil fuels, then you\u2019re gonna have to come up with some substitute for cargo ships on the high seas to propel. If you take out diesel, natural gas, oil, whatever it is, you\u2019re not gonna be able to on import any iPhones or Samsung phone or anything else made in China.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: It\u2019s gonna be interesting to see, \u2019cause there has to be a breaking point because these people do believe… I cannot emphasize this enough. I really can\u2019t. A lot of these young people really do believe all this, folks. It is funny and scary to read how scared they are and how hook, line, and sinker they believe every lie, every BS article on this. They literally believe the United States is destroying the planet, and that signing the Paris accords would save the planet.<\/p>\n

They really believe that the earth may not be habitable. They\u2019re fascinated by colonizing Mars and the Moon. It\u2019s the most amazing thing. I read this stuff and say, “What have we done to these people?” But then you hit \u2019em with the reality of like the Green New Deal. “Okay, bye-bye airplanes, and you\u2019re not gonna be able to build enough trains to accommodate the routes that you\u2019re gonna lose.<\/p>\n

“And you\u2019re not gonna be able to buy any more tech \u2019cause you\u2019re not gonna be able to get it here \u2019cause it\u2019s gonna be made in China. And, by the way, China is gonna continue to grow and build and they\u2019re not gonna get rid of any of this stuff we\u2019re gonna get rid of.” At some point, they\u2019ve got to wake up, and I would think Cortez\u2019s Green New Deal would have shocked some of them into reality — and it may have. We just don\u2019t know yet. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Turtle called for a vote in the Senate on the Green New Deal, and the Democrats are having a cow! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":299652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: The Turtle called for a vote in the Senate on the Green New Deal, and the Democrats are having a cow!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-McConnell.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"George Prayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"11 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-McConnell.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-McConnell.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/\",\"name\":\"The Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-13T20:35:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-02-14T20:58:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349\",\"name\":\"George Prayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"George Prayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/georgeeibnet-com\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"The Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: The Turtle called for a vote in the Senate on the Green New Deal, and the Democrats are having a cow!","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-McConnell.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"George Prayias","Est. reading time":"11 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-McConnell.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-McConnell.jpg","width":640,"height":360},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/","name":"The Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2019-02-13T20:35:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-02-14T20:58:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/the-turtle-tweaks-the-left-with-green-new-deal-vote\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Turtle Tweaks the Left with Green New Deal Vote"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349","name":"George Prayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"George Prayias"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/georgeeibnet-com\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299649"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299776,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299649\/revisions\/299776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}