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GINGRICH TARGETED BY CONSERVATIVES FOR LEFT-WING ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD
American Tradition Partnership distributes Power-Grabbing Newts to CPAC attendees, highlights his radical liberal record
WASHINGTON Americas largest grassroots opponent of radical environmentalism is taking aim at former House Speaker Newt Gingrichs outspoken support of increased taxes and government power at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
The group is distributing Power-Grabbing Newt toys, a sticky gel lizard, and a list of 25 quotes from three of his latest books calling for increased government power and taxation to seek what he calls environmental compliance.
The Power-Grabbing Newt, an invasive species once limited to parts of Georgia and the Speakers chair, has been introduced to the CPAC habitat, and it looks to extend its reach into the White House, said ATP Executive Director Donald Ferguson.
If it taxes like a liberal, regulates like a liberal and spends like a liberal, its a liberal. And Newt Gingrich is a liberal. Gingrichs demands for new environmentalist federal agencies, using the tax code to engineer what he calls environmental compliance and calls for global regulatory conferences are liberal threats to people, property and prosperity, said Ferguson.
The quotes are pulled from Gingrichs books, A Contract With The Earth, Winning The Future and Real Change. The quote sheet is attached.
Supported by grassroots activists, American Tradition Partnership is a fast-growing national conservative organization fighting the liberal agenda of environmentalism, and its calls for increased government power and taxation.
BIG GREEN GOVERNMENT 101
WHO SAID IT? NEWT GINGRICH OR AL GORE?
A POP QUIZ FROM AMERICAN TRADITION PARTNERSHIP (AmericanTradition.org)
Hint: These are all recent Newt Gingrich statements.
I WAS A GREEN PUPPET WHEN IT WASNT COOL: When I first ran for Congress I was the natural candidate of most environmental groups Newt Gingrich, Winning The Future, Page 168
CREATE GLOBAL SPENDING REGIMES: If the United States challenged Europe and Japan to join it in financing a world biodiversity refuge system and tied foreign aid into the process of maintaining biodiversity, we could probably save a very high percentage of the earths biological richness Newt Gingrich, Winning The Future, Pages 170-171
SPREAD THE WEALTH, TO GREENS: The United States should support substantial research into climate change, managing the response to climate change, and in developing new non-carbon energy systems. Newt Gingrich, Winning The Future, Page 171
PUT DC IN CONTROL: The federal government should establish measurable standards for a healthy environment Newt Gingrich, Winning The Future, Page 172
CASH FOR CLUNKERS? MORE, PLEASE: A tax credit to subsidize energy efficient cars (including a tax credit for turning in old and heavily polluting cars) is another idea we should support. Newt Gingrich, Winning The Future, Page 174
INDOCTRINATE THEM YOUNG: As a young professor at West Georgia College, I taught in the second Earth Day in 1971 and coordinated an interdisciplinary environmental studies program. Newt Gingrich, Real Change, Page 196
NEWT ENDORSES CASH FOR CLUNKERS, AGAIN: There ought to be a tax break for trading in old cars that use a lot of petroleum and emit a lot of pollution. Newt Gingrich, Real Change, Page 204
WE MUST PROTECT THE ESA That is why I worked so diligently as Speaker of the House to protect the Endangered Species Act, historic legislation that has been mired in controversy The Endangered Species Act is an excellent example of the value of civility, consultation and collaboration. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Pages XII & 51
THE EARTH NEEDS A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER Government, at all levels, should be a facilitator for entrepreneurial, private-sector innovations and the formation of private-public environmental partnerships. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 13
STOP THE CONSERVATIVES FROM LIMITING GOVERNMENT POWER For that reason, we have supported its (the Endangered Species Acts) continuation against all challenges by private citizens, interest groups, and congressional opponents. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 53
CREATE NEW GOVERNMENT SPENDING PROGRAMS The U.S. government operates endowments for the humanities and the arts Perhaps, it is time we consider a new endowment for conservation and the environment. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Pages 115-116 [NOTE: As Speaker, Gingrich told conservatives he wanted to eliminate the wasteful National Endowment for the Arts. Now he cites it as an example of a government spending spree that needs to be duplicated.]
SPEND SIGNIFICANT TAX MONEY IN THE U.S., AND AROUND THE WORLD Significant resources should be set aside to protect hallowed sites such as the Galapagos Islands, the Virguna Volcanoes in Central Africa, and Georgias Okenfenokee Swamp, to name a few. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 117
MILITANT ENVIRONMENTALISM LITERALLY? John Muir, for most of his adult life, experienced nature in spiritual overtones He even favored using the armed forces to enforce environmental law However, with the inexorable advance of the urban realm, the defense of forested land assumes a greater urgency as we strive to sustain the highest-quality standards for our nations air, water, and land. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 127
HOORAY FOR RECORD-BREAKING SPENDING HIKES! Our national parks and wildlife reserves require more vigorous protection. With an eye toward strengthening his environmental legacy in the 2007 federal budget, President Bush requested the largest increase for national park funding in our nations history. We should expect nothing less than excellence from our national park system. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Pages 130-131
ENVIRONMENTALISM, OUR GLOBAL RELIGION OF PEACE Far from becoming a new source of global discord, environmentalism, which binds nations to a common concern, will be the best thing thats ever happened to international relations. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Pages 149-150
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IS THE SOLUTION We will need to organize a series of high-level global conferences that focus on specific [environmental] problems Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 158
GOVERNMENT IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF INNOVATION the type of arduous research that produces real breakthroughs can only be funded by astute governments. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 167
NEWT WANTS TO BRING BACK CARTER ENERGY POLICIES America used to be that kind of government [that spent millions of tax dollars on energy research welfare programs,] but our commitments have wavered in recent years so government incentives for energy research will be issues in future political campaigns. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 1
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NEWT LOVES THE UNS KYOTO TREATY GLOBAL APPROACH Mobilizing other countries to join us will not be as easy as it may appear. Many of the countries that signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol are lagging behind on their commitments. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 168
STOP CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION TO THE ESA The act [Endangered Species Act] has been, by any measure, a very successful guardian of wildlife and habitat and any attempt to weaken it should be resisted. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 170
NEWT INVENTS A NEW DISEASE ONLY ENVIRONMENTALISM CAN CURE our children, according to Louv, run the risk of acquiring nature deficit disorder, a malady that he describes as a contributing factor to a recognized mental health construct, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Nature deficit disorder, not yet acknowledged by scientists or clinicians, is a working hypothesis that Louv believes helps to explain the onset of ADHD, and he proposes that exposure to nature should be offered as a therapy for children who have difficulty attending to stimuli and learning in conventional classrooms. His call for research in this domain is compelling. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 182
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SHOULD REDISTRIBUTE INCOME TO STIMULATE GREEN COMPLIANCE Local governments operate much closer to the origin of environmental problems, and they have begun to provide tax incentives and large cash rewards for environmental compliance While the motivation is driven by the application of tax dollars, the effect is rewarding rather than punitive Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 194
DONT CUT GOVERNMENT, JUST MAKE IT NICER our government, at all levels, must be modernized to successfully partner, let alone compete, with the private sector. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 196
MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A FACT We agree that there is plenty of evidence that global climate change is occurring While humanity is certainly causing its fair share of the change, scientists are still not able to precisely pinpoint the extent of the change, or the margin of error in their estimates. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 200
GIVING TAX DOLLARS TO LIBERALS IS OUR ONLY HOPE In spite of the demonstrated liberal leanings in academia, we have nothing but respect for the nations scientists. They represent Americas best hope to protect the environment. We support a dramatic increase in science and technology research and development because we desperately need to understand global climate change and other environmental phenomena. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 201
MOTHER EARTH NEEDS ALL YOUR INCOME Needless to say, an appropriate and significant investment of public and private funding to renew the earth will pay dividends. Newt Gingrich, A Contract With The Earth, Page 202
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