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Green No Deal

Privately, AOC must be sputtering with green rage. Publicly, she sounded like a 6th grader grounded before a Taylor Swift concert when she angrily tweeted that Mitch McConnell thinks, “we can all drink oil in thirty years.”

Ummm, what?

The reason for her tween ire? Mitch amusingly scheduled a vote on her Green New Deal. He had the impudent effrontery to yesterday ask her fellow Democrats to vote yea or nay on her proposal. Not one of them did. They all ducked the issue. Four of them even voted with the GOP and McConnell, including leftist pinup Sinema of Arizona.

No one has ever said Mitch was not a master legislative tactician, and this was one of his more spiritually pleasing maneuvers. With the failure of Dems in the House to override the president on border funding, the Mueller Report, and the Avenatti/Geragos mess, by this move he makes this recent GOP winning streak a tad longer and launches AOC into sheer barking madness.

In a rare shared satisfaction with McConnell, no doubt Pelosi and Hoyer were chuffed as well over his humiliation of the rookie Dem.

I won’t belabor you with what piffle the Green New Deal is in its entirety. You know that already. But think about what furious dumb girl’s next steps its creator will follow as she mulls over this particular mortification at the hands of McConnell.

Clutching her favorite snarling wolf stuffed doll and staring at her Bolshevik Beat magazine Jiang Qing fold-out, little Alex will writhe with uncontrolled petulance at the mean old white man who spoiled her fun. She will have her revenge! But first, she’ll FaceTime Ilhan and gossip about that dreamy Beto.

Soon, her besties in the Senate not standing with her will drive the confused legislator to self-proclaimed martyr status and motivate her to propose even more wacky measures as a recompense to a mankind lost without her pre-teen sagacity. Not to mention, continue to tweet herself into a laughing stock.

But you know who’s laughing hardest? The Senate Majority Leader. For baiting her is just too easy. Even for an old guy from Kentucky.