You can't beat something with nothing, according to ancient Beltway wisdom, an outlook guaranteed to yield an inexorable increase in the size, cost, and destructiveness of government, even as it forces the opponents of “something” gradually to adopt the assumptions of the proponents, and to descend into a process of negotiating with themselves.
The latest manifestation of this self-defeating stance comes in a recent news report: “Congressional Republicans are developing legislation to introduce next year that could serve as the GOP framework for addressing climate change. The language will likely center on energy efficiency, natural gas use, and technology to clean up coal-fired power plants, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters… ‘We owe it to the country to have an alternative to the Green New Deal.' Graham said he's frustrated because large parts of the Republican Party still resist the idea of climate change legislation.”
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