[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Gritty]

Judges would have to weigh the environmental consequences of inaction and the risk of fire in cases involving thinning projects

It looks like the enviro lawyers will be very busy.

[randog]

"We're not interested in healthy forests," said Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y. "What we are interested in is a big giveaway to people who want to cut down trees on public lands. That's what this bill is all about."

Oh, gosh, let's not have the government actually make money by selling logging rights, no, that would be horrible.

[Chu Gary]

I hope they can delay the clearing until they allow enough time for tree-huggers to chain themselves to every tree to be cleared. Then, proceed.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[kitkat]

***The Senate passed the bill by voice vote less than an hour after the House approved it, 286-140. ***

I know there's a perfectly reasonable answer, BUT how can a body of 100 people vote 426 times?

[illumini]

http://www.tejavia.com/pages/401886/index.htm

[CWOJackson]

Well that tears it. If Bush signs off on this he is turning his back on his base. I'll never vote for him again, and I know hundreds, thousands, millions of people who won't if he sells us out like this.

[CWOJackson]

Sorry folks...I just had to try it once.

Oh, well...I guess he's just lost the tree hugger vote.

[The South Texan]

Timber!!!!!!

[Morgan's Raider]

"We're not interested in healthy forests," said Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y. "What we are interested in is a big giveaway to people who want to cut down trees on public lands. That's what this bill is all about."

Hinchey, another of the anti-capitalist neobolsheviks of the marxist "progressive" caucus.