accomplished most of what he hoped to -- to help raise consciousness among THE PEOPLE. As the League of Conservation Voters clip below shows, Democrats in congress are already believers and eager to get to work.
Took nearly 55 years from the time of Democratic President Johnson's 1965 letter to congress, but finally disaster is forcing awareness on "the people," and now we're rather suddenly yammering for what most of us have spent their entire adult lives ignoring and not voting for.
Of course Democrats were able to take some actions over that period, most since the 1980s, but with Republicans opposing with everything they could, and apathy on the left no matter what they were told, we didn't begin to have the support of the people needed to make the truly huge changes required.
But now that disaster's on us, that support is happening and we may be able to begin to. We'll find out in a little over a year. Fwiw, by far most relatively newer Democratic members of congress have 100% "lifetime" League of Conservation Voter ratings (because our party became believers some time ago and started trying to pass needed legislation), and the same for recent annual ratings for older Democrats in congress.
Many newer Republicans have proudly earned ratings of literally 0, but new anxiety among voters is forcing scoundrels like Lindsey Graham (2018 score 7% out of 100%, lifetime score 12%) to start putting together Republican climate bills to run on and use as damage control against Democratic bills.
Understandably, the League of Conservation Voters was overjoyed when Democrats got control of the House last fall. Btw, it should be noted that the LCV thinks very well of Biden, whose lifetime score (since 1972) should not mislead people into imagining he doesn't have a good overall climate, water, environment, energy, etc. lifetime record. He's always been one of their people in DC. Like him, virtually all our candidates also have 100% recent annual ratings.
We are thrilled that the 2018 National Environmental Scorecard is the last of an eight-year reign by the most anti-environmental U.S. House of Representatives in history. The tectonic shift to a pro-environment majority comes not a moment too soon, as the Trump administration has continued its unrelenting assault on our air, water, lands and wildlife—all to benefit its corporate polluter allies. The attacks on the environment and public health from the Trump administration and the House of Representatives throughout 2018 were all the more egregious in light of the record-breaking climate-change-fueled extreme weather our nation experienced—from the deadliest wildfire in California’s history to more intense hurricanes along the east coast—in the fourth hottest year on record, surpassed only by 2015, 2016, and 2017. It’s clear that climate change is having devastating impacts on people across the country, particularly those from low-income and communities of color.
The 2018 National Environmental Scorecard details how the extreme leadership in the House of Representatives failed to protect our environment and public health or combat the climate crisis. Instead, as the votes show, they continued to serve as a rubber stamp on the Trump administration’s attacks and once again pushed their own breathtakingly anti-environmental agenda. The 35 scored votes chronicle the breadth and depth of the chamber’s destructive efforts from allowing more toxic pollution into our air to removing protections for endangered species to slashing clean energy funding.
Records of all candidates who've served in congress can be found here:
https://scorecard.lcv.org/overview
Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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