Gingrich Admits His Leadership Failed

One more reason to elect a progressive President in 2008: Yesterday, in a debate with John Kerry, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich admitted that the he and the Republican Party have failed to lead on the issue of the environment. “I’m not going to stand up here and defend our failure to lead,” Gingrich said.

Nonetheless, Gingrich is still running for President in 2008. Gingrich and his Republican allies expect us voters to overlook their grave failures of leadership, and give them the power to lead the Executive Branch of the federal government for four more years anyhow.

Another reason: Newt Gingrich also admitted during that debate that human responsibility for global warming has been proven by science, saying, “We have now passed the tipping point of that argument.” Still, Gingrich refused to support serious action to deal with the problem of human activity heating up the climate of the Earth.

Gingrich proposed giving money to polluters to stop them from spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and allowing their pollution to continue unchecked if the polluters don’t want to change. That’s like paying gangs of thugs to stop going around town beating up shopkeepers. It’s a protection racket. Progressives want to hold polluters to account, not coddle them as Gingrich suggests.

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