BushCo wants you to know: Caring about the environment is for pinko terrorist idiots

SF Gate / SF Chronicle ^ | 01/28/04 | Mark Morford

[Jinjelsnaps]

As if 600-year-old redwoods give a damn for your politics.

As if struggling salmon care a whit for the Catholic Church's sneering homophobic stance on gay marriage. Like Alaskan elk think your viewpoints on war are far too lopsided to hold sway in the national dialogue.

[finnman69]

Morford's nightmare

[okie01]

BushCo wants you to know: Caring about the environment is for pinko terrorist idiots

Seems to me Morford himself proves that BushCo's claim is absolutely correct.

Morford cares about the environment.

And he is a certifiable pinko.

Not to mention an idiot.

That's two outta three...

[Made In The USA]

Someone should put an oil derrick in his back yard just see if he self-implodes.

[tdadams]

This is the other thing: Bush is the worst environmental president in the nation's history. Period.

Really? Let's test that theory.

Who was president during the Love Canal environmental disaster which displaced nearly a thousand families from a 10 square block area in New York?

Who was president in 1969 when NBC aired a documentary called "Who Killed Lake Erie?" focusing on the lake, which had been called "dead" by environmentalists due to high levels of pollution and algae?

Who was president during the Three Mile Island disaster?

[Abe Froman]

"The truth is, no matter which party you align yourself with, nowadays it takes more guts, more outright nerve, to care about this planet, to work to strip your life of the plastic and the poisonous and minimize your waste and your impact, eat more consciously and support local farming and cherish the flora and fauna, than it ever could be to load up the Escalade with Malaysian-made crap you bought at Wal-Mart that's now 89 cents cheaper because it's made in a sweatshop and not at the local factory that was forced to shut down."

Actually I don't think it's hard at all to do what he's talking about here, and we're all perfectly free to do so.

As long as we don't try to have government force our wishes on OTHER PEOPLE's old growth forests, salmon, and elks, we're fine. We can each love our own forests, salmon, and elks to death if we wish. No problem. And other people should be free to cut down their own forests, and kill and eat their own elks and salmon.

[ArrogantBustard]

Hey Morford! I've just spent 3 successive mornings (and afternoons) scraping that global warming BS off my truck. You want I should send you a bunch of it, so's you can shove it up your....????

[cwb]

"Dubya, by way of his industry cronies, have initiating more than 200 major rollbacks of America's most significant environmental laws."

This is the biggest con-job being perpetrated on the American people by these eco-nuts. Many of these so-called "rollbacks" were never even laws...and were rejected by many Democrats, as well. The fact is, many of these were either "proposals" or EOs that Clinton signed during his last week in office. And why did he wait until his last day in office? Because even he knew that many of these acts would've had a damatic effect on his glorious economy...and that he could never get them through congress.

Oh, it was a beautiful political maneuver; Clinton could propose all these wonderful environmental proposals on his last days in office, knowing full well that the next administration would have to re-evaluate them. Of course, once the next administration did just that, the democrats could claim Bush "rolled back" all these environmental protections. If these were so important to the Democrats and the environmentalist, why did Clinton ignore them for his entire 8 years in office?

Mumford ignores just how extreme environmental policy has gotten over the last decade. From out-of-control forrest fires thanks to brush build-up and reduced access to policies that have impaired our energy resources, including meeting the demands of a growing populous and economy.

Blackouts, brownouts, shortages and a fail to modernize our own electrical grids have been the result of enviromental policy that punishes companies for modernizing. Instead of allowing a company to replace a failed component with a new, more effecient component, Clean Air Act laws require companies to completely retrofit entire systems. As a result, companies try and keep the old inefficient pieces working as long as possible. In other words, it's all or nothing with the environmentalists, because "they" won't compromise.

[Jonah Hex]

He'd probably enjoy it.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[ArrogantBustard]

Who was president during the Three Mile Island disaster?

Disaster? Chernobyl was a disaster. Texas City was a disaster. Bhopal was a disaster. TMI was a set of disaster prevention mechanisms functioning properly to prevent massive property damage and loss of life outside the plant. More people were killed by Ted Kennedy's bad driving skills than by the reactor malfunction at the TMI power plant.

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[mountaineer]

He has openly sodomized the Clean Air Act.

Missy Morford can blather on he wants, as long as he doesn't share with us what he's been sodomizing, openly or otherwise.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"Hitler worshipped nature, too."

And was a veggie muncher.

[boris]

They are not pro nature; they are anti human.

[theyibby]

He must be right. Bush has done nothing to reduce earthquakes in California, hurricanes on the south and east coast, tornados in the midwest, sunspots which have got to be damaging us in some way,not to mention, blizzards, floods, and dead skunks in the roadway which cause terribly hazardous slick spots.

He's right, Bush is no environmental whacko.....thank God!!

[gnarledmaw]

Inner city watermelons dont have the vaguest idea what theyre talking about. An article and discussion of interest to you, Conservative sportsmen turn against Bush (Tongass National Forest).

[realpatriot71]

You cannot drive a Prius without being deemed some sort of nutball geek who probably feeds your kids only hemp seeds and homemade sproutburgers with a side of fresh mulch.

Swerve to miss a baby duck and get run over by an SUV . . . :-)

The thing these idiots don't understand is the difference between enviromentalism and conservationism. Enviromentalism has placed the earth, plants, and animals above the humans. Sorry (well not sincerely), wether you believed we were created or dragged our species, tooth and nail, to the top, it still doesn't negate the fact that we are THE TOP. Conservatives don't want to "destroy" the Earth - that's crazy talk. Conservatives want a rational, conservationist approach to the subject of "hurting the enviroment". Sometimes the animals just have to take it,or even (*gasp*) die. Trying to stop civilization is like trying to stop the Earth from going around the sun. Sometimes a critter just has to take one for the team.

[petitfour]

Whose house is most environmentally friendly? Bush's house or Kerry's three, four, five, or is it more houses???? Does John Kerry drive an eco-friendly vehicle when he drives? Or does he drive?

[mountaineer]

We do know that Kerry had a fire hydrant outside one of his multi-million dollar houses (the one on Beacon Hill) moved, so he could part one of his gasguzzlers right outside his front door.

[AngryJawa]

Vaseline...also available in the bath house-sized 55 gal. drum.

[eyespysomething]

YIKES!!!