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Kerry and Gingrich deserve a big raise
Yesterday's climate-change debate between current Senator Kerry and former Speaker Gingrich seems to have earned a big raise for all concerned.
It raised awareness of the urgent need to deal with the science of global climate change in a responsible manner.
It raised questions of why smart people from both sides of the issues can't work together more often to find mutually-acceptable solutions to common problems.
It raised the bar for reasonable, rational, respectful discourse between persons from different partisan political parties.
It raised eyebrows on the part of pundits who had been predicting a 'smackdown' but got a hug fest instead.
It raised the hopes of those who believe progressive politics is finally on the rebound in America.
And it raised the hackles of arch-conservatives who bitterly accused their erstwhile standard-bearer of selling out to those terrible tree-hugging leftists.
(I especially like that last aspect of it -- let the über-right wingnuts go choke on their own vile bile. Sorry, you whackjobs, Gingrich's goin' green. Deal with it.)
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