Mike Lee stood on the floor of history’s greatest deliberative body — where debates over war and peace, slavery and freedom were carried on by giants in our nation’s history — and pointed to a poster of Ronald Reagan firing a machine gun while riding an American flag-waving velociraptor.
The Utah senator was trashing the Green New Deal, the nonbinding climate resolution put forward by New York Rep. Alexendria Ocasio-Cortez. It proposes reducing emissions, slowing climate change and maybe prolonging humanity’s place on this planet.
In the process, the senator fell back on the same lazy right-wing spin of the Green New Deal, saying that its two “most prominent goals” are getting rid of airplanes and putting an end to flatulent cows.