Seems the "Green New Deal" isn't such a new idea, nor revolutionary.
This is an article originally from the Huffington Post (posted on Grist) The "Green New Deal" has been around since at least 2007, maybe earlier. This is a good read.
https://grist.org/article/whats-the-green-new-deal-the-surprising-origins-behind-a-progressive-rallying-cry/
What’s the ‘Green New Deal’? The surprising origins behind a progressive rallying cry.
The man who popularized the phrase that left-leaning Democrats now use to describe a vision for a radical government spending plan to combat climate change is a self-described centrist “free-market guy” with a New York Times column.
It was Thomas Friedman who in 2007 started calling for a “Green New Deal” to end fossil fuel subsidies, tax carbon dioxide emissions, and create lasting incentives for wind and solar energy. At the dawn of the global financial crisis, the “New Deal” concept that Franklin D. Roosevelt coined 76 years earlier to describe the labor reforms and historic spending on infrastructure and armaments that pulled the United States out of the Great Depression proved attractive.
Friedman’s ideas made it into the mainstream the following year when presidential candidate Barack Obama added a Green New Deal to his platform. In 2009, the United Nations drafted a report calling for a Global Green New Deal to focus government stimulus on renewable energy projects. A month later, Democrats’ landmark cap-and-trade bill — meant to set up a market where companies could buy and sell pollution permits and take a conservative first step toward limiting carbon dioxide emissions — passed in the House with the promise of spurring $150 billion in clean energy investments and creating 1.7 million good-paying jobs.
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Younger then, all of us! 
Keep to the subject, please.
I forgot how Biden got the campaign in trouble in Ohio when he blurted out that "that neither he nor Obama supported clean coal. The McCain campaign tried to make hay from the uninformed indiscretion, and the Obama camp dispatched Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) to reassure voters that the Democratic ticket was "a friend of coal." "
Oops.
president said, supported or did is an insult. 
Merry Christmas to you and yours. 
I’m hit and miss everywhere—We are dealing with my dying dog, (cancer) we will have him put down after Christmas, so I’m not much in the spirit. My poor baby 
But perhaps that isn't clear to everyone?
Why are you asking me questions about the OP?
So far it's been used as a cudgel to beat up on Pelosi. I imagine it would do good service in that department against O'Rourke, Jefffries and assorted other Dem rivals. Beyond that its goals were vague. So other than a catchy meme I don't see what there was of value in it.
In non-handmade-letters on a not-handmade sign:
This is when Pelosi was facing what was then a stiff challenge to her leadership. To my eye this has the air of manufactured drama. Then there was the business with Jeffries, and before that, the business with Crowley. All that antagonism to achieve what exactly? "Green jobs for all?" Is that like Medicare for All? If so it doesn't exist except as a slogan and that's not a positive proposal.
For years we heard a steady stream of insinuations, declamations, accusations and defamations about how corrupt and compromised the Obama administration was for letting Wall Street banksters go free while creating legislation like the TARP for feathering their bankrolls at our expense. But when we finally got to hear that list of Wall Street criminals named, who was on it?
The Waltons of Arkansas and Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
...now you'll really be talking to yourself when you direct posts at me.
lol!
It's a Festivus miracle!
bust him.
of making people look bad, he should be acknowledged as a leading Democrat on this issue from decades ago by both Bernie and AOC.
Thanks to Bill Clinton and Al Gore for running on climate change even when it wasn’t cool and trendy. 
Really don't get the point of this thread.
for keeping it real. 
