Sizzling anti-burger narrative puts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal in a pickle

When Rep. Rob Bishop wanted to signal his opposition to the Green New Deal, he did it by sinking his teeth into a juicy cheeseburger from the Good Stuff Eatery. “If this goes through, this will be outlawed. I could no longer eat this type of thing,” said the Utah Republican between bites at last week’s Western Caucus press conference. “So before they take it away from me, before it’s illegal and an endangered species — I’m actually going to enjoy this a whole lot more than I would the Green New Deal.” Two weeks after it was introduced, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s signature climate-change resolution has become embroiled in a debate over whether Americans should continue to have it their way when it comes to the All-American burger. Foes of the Green New Deal are loving it. At CPAC, former Trump White House aide Sebastian Gorka charred the anti-beef initiative, saying, “They want to rebuild your home, they want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.”...If anyone is to blame for the burger narrative catching fire, however, it may be Ms. Ocasio-Cortez herself. In a Feb. 21 interview on Showtime’s “Desus & Mero,” she aired her beef with Big Mac-loving Americans as she promoted the Green New Deal. “In the deal, what we talk about is, and it’s true, is that we need to take a look at factory farming, period,” she said. “It’s wild. It’s not to say you get rid of agriculture, it’s not to say we’re going to force everybody to go vegan or anything crazy like that, but it’s to say, listen, we’ve got to address factory farming, maybe we shouldn’t be eating a hamburger for breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Last week, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was roasted by conservatives after social-media strategist Caleb Hull posted a photo of her at a restaurant with her chief of staff, who was enjoying a hamburger. She responded with a tweet about “a dude who was creepily (and obviously) taking a picture of me while pretending he wasn’t,” prompting Mr. Hull to respond that “this picture was only taken and sent to me because AOC told the country to eat less hamburgers and her COS is here eating a hamburger.”...MORE

I like the response from the Western Caucus: