Republican Sen. Mike Lee: 'This, of course, is a picture of former President Donald Reagan, firing a machine gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur.'
Republican Sen. Mike Lee mocked the Democrats' Green New Deal proposal in remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
"Unlike some of my colleagues, I'm not immediately afraid of what carbon emissions unaddressed might do to our environment in the near-term future, or our civilization, or our planet in the next few years," Lee said as he addressed his colleagues."Unlike others, I'm not immediately afraid of what the Green New Deal would do to our economy and our government. After all, this isn't going to pass. Not today. Not anytime soon, certainly.
"I rise today to consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves," Lee said, before presenting the image of Reagan atop a velociraptor while holding a machine gun. As far as we know, Reagan never rode a dinosaur in his lifetime — even during his career as an actor.
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