This ought to be entertaining. From a press release that just hit our inbox:
WASHINGTON D.C -- Senator John Kerry will debate Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on the issues of global climate change and the environment.The event details:
WHO: Senator John Kerry and Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
WHAT: Kerry-Gingrich Debate on Global Climate Change and the Environment
WHEN: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 from 10 am to 12 pm
WHERE: 325 Russell Senate Office Building, 1st and C streets, NE, Washington, D.C.Senator Kerry, a long-time leader on environment issues and author of This Moment on Earth, and Former Speaker Gingrich, author of Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America, will deliver remarks and discuss ways in which Congress can resolve its differences on global climate change through innovative solutions and changes in public policy.
The event with Kerry and Gingrich is part of the Brademas Center exploratory series, "Legislating for the Future," which is cosponsored by The Brookings Institution and RAND Corporation.
-- Christina Bellantoni, Capitol Hill correspondent, The Washington Times
Comments (4)
This ought to be good! Complete spin versus factual intelligent information ... and it will be Swifty doing the spinning! Newt is too intelligent for any Democrat to debate with any hope of winning. Of course in the minds of liberal Dems, they win no matter what. Buffoonery at its best!
Posted by El gato | April 6, 2007 10:11 AM
Too bad Kerry and Gingrich wont debate as to why they are not following their oath of office or the Constitution, instead of Legislating for Climate change. Check out "Congressional Oath of Office" and Google it to find out.
Posted by Chuck | April 9, 2007 4:50 AM
Both of these guys selling competing brands of snakeoil. I'm not sure which is worse for America? Kerry, the son of wealth and privilege who is jumping on the liberal global warming bandwagon, whose agenda of carbon taxes will just provide multi-national corporate America to close down more factories and move good jobs to a third world country. Or Gingrich who pimps for the interests of the CEO classes, trying to sell Wall Street's economics agenda with Toffler futurism. Toffler's futurism is it's own brand of snake oil. It should be pretty entertaining, but don't count on it to be very enlightening on the topic of global warming and America's dependence on the petro-dollar and military aggression to keep our economy's Keynesian perpetual motion machine spinning along.
Posted by Joe Populist | April 9, 2007 10:47 PM
Watched it today and was sorely disappointed. Gingrich is usually a powerhouse of fact and sardonic quip, but mostly his part today was as billed, a "conversation", not a "smack-down". Kerry however was prepared for debate and spewed all the normal expected lib talking points. Gingrich recommended we read the Kerrys' new book and mentioned that he agreed with 60% of it and tossed a couple of "global warming has been around a long time" schticks.
Cum-bay-ya anybody? Can't you just feel the love?
To sum up the "conversation", Newt thinks we should incentivize (is that a new word?) the carbon problem and Kerry wants to regulate the hell out of the carbon problem.
I would swear that Newt was just there for the free lunch. He did not sound like a conservative presidential candidate. Not mine, anyway. Kerry did sound just like a Lib elistist!
Posted by Jerry | April 10, 2007 11:11 PM