Josh Earnest glad Dem debate participants who told us we're all going to die from climate change didn't fear monger

**Written by Doug Powers

Not in so many words, Dems -- and select socialist(s) -- at the debate warned that unless we spend trillions more on "clean energy" shams the effects of climate change will mean people in Cincinnati might soon have beachfront property. They also hinted that Wall Street bankers are going to force the middle class to clean their septic tanks and a Republican president would mean women will have to work for sweatshop wages and anybody who hasn't been in the country at least 75 years would be put on a rocket and sent to Jupiter. 

And yet Josh Earnest said this Wednesday:

White House spokesperson Josh Earnest also applauded the debate as a success during his daily press briefing, calling it “a keen reminder you can run on things other than appealing to people’s fears and anxieties about the future.”

The movie The Martian is just fiction, but the WH spox is actually living on another planet. Let's leave him there.

**Written by Doug Powers

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