Democrats brush off GOP 'trolling' over Green New Deal

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Democrats are bristling over a GOP effort to pit senators against the party's newly resurgent progressive base.

Republicans, fresh off a border funding fight they are widely viewed as having lost, are eager to pivot to offense as they hunt for 2020 fodder, when several Senate Democrats will be running for president.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is mulling a series of votes to try to jam Democratic senators, who he has repeatedly tried to paint as pushed off center by the “radical left.” His first step this week was fast-tracking the Green New Deal resolution by putting it on the Senate calendar.

But top Democrats are brushing off the potential political fallout of McConnell’s tactics, comparing them to a “political stunt.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/430309-gop-sees-green-new-deal-as-weapon-against-dems

[beachbum bob]

1. green new deal is dead in the water, no need to waste time in fretting over it