Actually, Pelosi is an honorable and decent person compared to some of scumbags who have preceded her.
Are Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh to blame for Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech?
Not to be outdone in carpetbag demagoguery, Newt Gingrich declared that 40 years of liberalism has caused society to get mean and nasty. Liberalism is responsible for young people losing their souls by playing violent video games. "We don't have any discussion about what's happened to our culture because while we're restricting political free speech under McCain-Feingold,(The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that regulates campaign financing) we say it's impossible to restrict vulgar and vicious and anti-human speech," proclaimed Gingrich.
Gingrich has a solid history of blaming liberals for the actions of deranged individuals. Back in 1994 there was white Susan Smith drowning her three young children in South Carolina and, in typical liberal fashion, blaming it on random crime by a black man. Gingrich quickly asserted that he thought ?that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things. . . . The only way to change is to vote Republican."
Then there was Columbine. Gingrich blamed that slaughter on a then mere 35 years of liberalism. Using Gingrich?s logic, the increased body count at Virginia Tech is therefore due to the additional years of predatory liberal culture since Columbine. The only problem is that somebody has failed to tell George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, the GOP and the religious right that they have been presiding over and promoting liberal culture since Columbine. The same holds true before Columbine for Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, the Moral Majority, the Contract with America crowd, and the vast right wing conspiracy.
After Columbine Gingrich said ?to the elite of this country, the elite news media, the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite ? I accuse you in Littleton of being afraid to talk about the mess you?ve made and being afraid to take responsibility for the things you have done, and instead foisting on the rest of us pathetic banalities because you don?t have the courage to look at the world you have created.?
Take for example Tom Delay?s dandy reasoning about Columbine:
"Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."
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