Letters to the Editor
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Dysfunction is Right
Just look around here.
To state the obvious, the country is bitterly divided to the point of dysfunction. Environmental politics joins a long list of stale policies that need a bipartison update, such as social security and immigration. A bipartison solution will require both sides to open their minds, listen to each other and pay each other respect. As evidenced by the liberal letter writers, that seems unlikely to happen. Yes, conservative blowhards (not Gingrich) are equally guilty, but two wrongs don't make a right.
As for Gingrich's observations and proposals, I find that they have some merit. Republicans overlook that envirnonmental engineering is, itself, a robust industry. By propping up the coal industry, republicans are positioning themselves as luddites. Wake up and smell the emissons.