Saturday Political Pop Quiz

Name the politician who, during a speech examining the war on terror given on Thursday, told an audience that “none of you should believe we are winning this war. There is no evidence that we are winning this war.” He also asserted that a more effective war strategy would begin with a real national energy strategy aimed at weaning the country from its reliance on imported oil and some of the regimes supported by petro-dollars. Was it:

a) Hillary Clinton;

b) Newt Gingrich; or

c) Bill Richardson?

If you said Newt Gingrich, give yourself a blue star.

According to blogger Bullmoose777 posting at Powerline 's news forum during his speech to the National Conservative Student Conference, Gingrich

was unstinting in his criticism of his fellow Republicans, in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

“We were in charge for six years,” he said, referring to the period between 2001 and early 2007, when the GOP controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. “I don’t think you can look and say that was a great success.”

Fellow progressives, I would suggest we not get too comfortable. It seems Newt Gingrich is already laying the ground work for a Republican revival.

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Current Limbaugh Contact Information

The post below links to out of date contact information for Rush. Here is his current information. If you elect to write, be polite. Just tell him he is wrong and why.

Rush Limbaugh
rush@eibnet.com

Premiere Radio Networks
Premiere
Radio Networks

Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Main: (818)377-5300
Fax: (818)377-5333
Toll Free: (800)533-8686

The Rush Limbaugh Show
1-800-282-2882
rush@eibnet.com
fax: 212-563-9166

The Rush Limbaugh Show
1270 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

If you are wondering why I didn't just update my previous post, well I believe this is an issue we bloggers should take on. Both Rush and Newt Gingrich are working hard to tie the word "liberal" to Virginia Tech. One of them working the angle might be an aberration. Both of them? Well that implies that someone has decided people are viewing the word "liberal" a little more favorably than they should. Their branding of "liberal" and liberals is fading. That is bad for them. They know it. "Conservatism" is so weak intellectually that conservatives can compete only when "liberalism" is sufficiently diminished. What better way to refresh their brand than by tying the word to the Virginia Tech massacre.

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Shame on You Newt. Shame on You Rush

In his April 19, 2007, broadcast Rush Limbaugh said

If this Virginia Tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was? This guy had to be a liberal. You start railing against the rich and all this other -- this guy's a liberal. He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line. So it's a liberal that committed this act. Now, the drive-bys will read on a website that I'm attacking liberalism by comparing this guy to them. That's exactly what they do every day, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just pointing out a fact. I am making no extrapolation; I'm just pointing it out.

This morning Newt Gingrich blamed Liberalism for the Virginia Tech massacre.

I don't know about you, but I am sick to death of these wacko conservative ideologues exploiting tragedies like Virginia Tech for political gain. Cho wasn't a liberal, and no sane American of any stripe would claim him. Mass murderers come in both no and all ideologies. Timothy McViegh was ostensibly an arch conservative. There were mass murderers before there were "conservatives" and "liberals." Ever read about Bloody Kansas before the civil war? Was Bloody Bill Anderson a liberal or a conservative? What about John Brown?

The truth is people like the Columbine killers, Charles Whitman, and Cho kill because they are mentally ill, and driven by feelings of inadequacy none of us understand. Others like Bill Anderson or Timothy McVeigh claim their killings are justified by their ideology. I think that is hogwash. They kill because they put their drive for personal power above the lives of others. Still others like Osama Bin Laden or any number of religious fanatics, such as John Brown, kill because they say their God has told them too. The truth is, mass murderers kill because they do not respect the lives of others. They are selfish to the extreme. Many suffer from the delusion that their victims are not human, not deserving of respect.

Why don't we all write Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh and tell them what we think. Here is Rush Limbaugh's contact information. You can find Newt Gingrich here. Pass this forward. Millions need to tell these crass ideologues "shame on you." Its time to put a stop to this nonsense.

And if some "liberal" tries to blame "conservatives" we need to call shame on that indifferent fool as well.

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