Gosh,
I hope this was just a setup for a <rim-shot>.
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. . . Adversarial politics has prevented a strategic consensus from driving our nation’s environmental vision. As a result, we have become a conflicted, confused, and timid polity when it comes to environmental concerns. Historically, America has been a decisive nation. We must now take the necessary steps to return our country to a position of leadership on the environment. It is not too late to make a difference. Although I was trained for a career in academe, I’ve spent my entire adult life immersed in politics. I am convinced, however, the environment is an issue that transcends politics. . . .
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Originally Posted by Newt
. . . a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.
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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
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Have you ever tried to teach manners to a USENET troll? Literally, the man who did more to drive the level of public discourse to the lowest possible level now thinks maybe we can put that Genii back in the bottle? Nonsense!
We have whole radio and TV networks devoted to the most contentious, low-brow, knuckle dragging rhetoric imaginable. Journalism, a search for objective facts, has been poisoned by false claims of partisanship or even "fair and balanced."
Newt's claim today is no more than the mutterings of a hungover drunk who the morning afterwards says, "Never again." No, no, no!
I can respect Newt the firebrand tossing, idiot because it at least fits his pattern. There are folks who just are just that way and we treat their claims with polite amusement and the sly smile. Just don't ask me to suddenly think he has changed his stripes. Once a liar, always a liar and whether he believes it or not is not the issue. Schizophrenics, sociopaths and USENET trolls believe everything they spew out too.
Bob Wilson
ps. There has to be a cathartic event or series of events that strikes folks with a "clue by four" and gets them to take a critical look at what is going on. Sad to say, we've had enough and there is evidence that the 'ditto heads' are waking up. But I have no great faith that it will be soon enough to avoid a lot more pain.