Morons: Republicans get history wrong by naming anti-Green New Deal caucus after Teddy Roosevelt!

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Congressional Republicans launched a new caucus on Friday, the Roosevelt Conservation Caucus, in response to the popularity of the progressive Green New Deal championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

But the hypocrisy of the effort to rebrand Republicans as environmentalists is underscored by the brazen choice to name this joint House and Senate caucus after Teddy Roosevelt — a Republican president far closer in both words and deeds to modern Democratic environmentalists than any senior GOP member of Congress.
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But, again, Teddy Roosevelt was the quintessential big-government president. The conservative Heritage Foundation’s biography of Roosevelt concludes, “As President, he pushed executive powers to new limits, arguing that the rise of industrial capitalism had rendered limited government obsolete.”

Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, pointed out the hypocrisy of using Roosevelt’s name, “given that Roosevelt didn’t expand national parks & establish the @forestservice through ‘market-based approaches.'”

Roosevelt put a remarkable 230 million acres of this country under public protection. He created five national parks, 18 national monuments, 150 national forests (including the first), and the U.S. Forest Service.