For the past couple months, Democrats in Congress have loudly demanded that significant action be immediately taken to address the purportedly imminent crisis of man-made climate change, specifically via the Green New Deal proposal introduced in the House by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as in the Senate by Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey.

Even though the proposal has been widely mocked on the right — and even by some moderates on the center-left — as being insanely expensive and full of impossible to achieve ideas that would utterly ruin our nation’s economy, it was nevertheless embraced by the vast majority of elected Democrats, including virtually all of the declared 2020 presidential contenders.

In a move designed to get everyone on record as to where they stood on the Green New Deal proposal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell scheduled a procedural vote on Tuesday that would start debate on the issue, yet Democrats refused to play ball.

Shockingly, given their incessant shrieks that the proposal needed to be implemented immediately, not a single senator voted in favor of it when it came time for votes to be counted — 43 Democrats voted “present” while four joined with Republicans in voting “no.”

And McConnell wasted no time in highlighting the hypocritical duplicity of his left-leaning colleagues who voted “present” with a short video posted to Twitter.

The video began with a clip of Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley leading a chant on the steps of Congress of “What do we want? The Green New Deal! When do we want it? Now!”

That was followed by a clip of 2020 candidate and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker claiming, “Our planet is in peril, and we need to be bold.”