() House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to scold attendees at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference when they initially failed to applaud her and a slew of Democrats she introduced.
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The embarrassing moment occurred as she took to the podium and ticked off several names of Democrats who were in attendance.
“Good afternoon, everyone,” Pelosi started. “Uh, it is really an honor to be here with our Distinguished Delegation from the House of Representatives. I want them all to stand so you can see who they are. Congressman Earl Blumenauer, McCallum, McCollum, Pingree, Keating, Bonamici, Brownley, Huffman, Lowenthal, Beyer, Boyle, Espaillat, Casten, Escobar, Ocasio Cortez, Levin, Negus.”
“Uh, thank you all for being here,” Pelosi continued, but the crowd remained nearly silent. “Uh, today, we will hear, and that’s an applause line in case you didn’t know. We can applaud ourselves. We applaud ourselves.”
Democrats in general appeared to have other embarrassing moments at the COP26 summit as well, including when former President Barack Obama confused Ireland and Scotland, per Fox News:
Former President Barack Obama mixed up Scotland and Ireland while addressing the COP26 conference in Glasgow on Monday.
Toward the end of his speech at the United Nations climate change event held this year in the Scottish city, Obama referred to the location by a common nickname for the wrong country.
“Since we’re in the Emerald Isles here, let me quote the bard, William Shakespeare,” Obama said. “‘What wound,’ he writes, ‘did ever heal but by degrees.’”
The term “Emerald Isle” refers to Ireland, not Scotland or other countries in the United Kingdom. On top of that, Shakespeare is England’s national bard, not Scotland’s. That honor goes to Robert Burns, author of poems and songs, including “Auld Lang Syne.”
Obama’s quote was directed toward the young people in the audience, telling them that combating climate change is “a marathon, not a sprint,” and that while they should “stay angry” and “frustrated,” they should know that “solving a problem this big, this complex and this important has never happened all at once.”
As for Pelosi, she went on to tout the next phase of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, his $1.75 trillion “Build Back Better” plan that contains hundreds of billions in spending on social welfare and climate measures while imposing major new taxes. But she spoke of the legislation as though its passage is a foregone conclusion.
“We come here equipped, ready, to take on the challenge, to meet the moment,” Pelosi said.
“[The] congressional delegation comes here fresh from advancing legislation to Build Back Better, which represents the most ambitious and consequential climate and clean energy legislation of all time,” she boasted. “Our legislation is far-reaching, ensuring that [the] future economy is greener and cleaner.”
Yahoo News adds:
She then summarized the bill’s measures to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and to adapt to the impacts of climate change, which include hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of tax credits for renewable energy, investments in electric vehicle deployment, manufacturing clean energy infrastructure and modernizing the electricity grid.
“That is our plan, to pass the bill the week of Nov. 15,” Pelosi said in response to a question about whether Congress will ever have the votes to pass strong action to combat climate change.
But so far, the measure has faced an uphill battle in the evenly divided Senate, where moderates Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have opposed the bill because of its massive price tag.
Manchin has come under attack the most, largely from progressives including Sen. Bernie Sanders, who penned an op-ed in a West Virginia newspaper last month calling Manchin out.
The former college football quarterback was having none of it though.
“This isn’t the first time an out-of-stater has tried to tell West Virginians what is best for them despite having no relationship to our state,” Manchin noted.
“Senator Sanders’ answer is to throw more money on already overheated economy while 52 other Senators have grave concerns about this approach. To be clear, again, Congress should proceed with caution on any additional spending and I will not vote for a reckless expansion of government programs. No op-ed from a self-declared Independent socialist is going to change that,” he said.
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