#GOPCircus #PinPolitics #GreenNewDeal #PettyPolitics #LapelPins

Are they flippin' serious about ordering $40,000 dollar pins?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-takes-a-victory-lap-after-making-republicans-see-red/ar-BB1l7ukN?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=d1053672afe4425ddd02baafa42dce0e&ei=14
Lofgren seems to have underestimated the juvenile nature of the contemporary Congress.

“I know what it was, the pins were designed when Democrats were in the majority so it was thought it was, you know, the Green New Deal,” Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA) told Raw Story from behind his shiny green pin. “I thought it was whining, and I thought it was a waste of money to redo them mid-term. We don't have that kind of money here.”

As chair of the House Agriculture Committee, Glenn’s one of the rare Republicans embracing the green pins, which are still official 118th Congress pins — just this Congress now has two official pins.