Posted on 08/19/2008 3:52:58 PM PDT by SJackson
Tue. Aug. 19, 2008 8:46 am
Brandon says:
I like it when people say Bush is doing this and Bush is doing that. He isn't doing anything. Dick is in charge and he is gutting the ESA. Why care about the planet when you can make money? Money is what counts, not health or the safety and well being of people and this planet. Only the little people get sick. The rich just get drugs to take care of their illnesses.
Websfear says:
And speaking of Monuments - Who was responsible for the destruction of Mt Rushmore with this gawd awfull monument to Ronald Reagan? It all but covers up the view of the mountain until you pass monstrosity to a small observation deck. Then on top of that they charge you $10 to park your car for a year, like many are ever going to do that!
Maybe the old restaurant and observation deck that was there, as depicted in the movie 'North by Nortwest' was getting old. But at least you could see the monument from miles away and not have to pay an extortionist besides. Not any more!
yitbos
The ESA deserves to be gutted, it demands gutting.
Environmentalism is Communism holding a baby bunny...
Wow, I haven't been to Mt. Rushmore in about 15 years, I didn't know there was a Reagan monument, I'll have to get back.
As to the comment from Websfear the first time I saw Rushmore was from a distance, after a few days of backpacking in the Black Elk Wilderness to the south. I'd recomend it, and you'll save the $10 for parking. If you don't want to walk, you'll have to wait for the Obama refundable National Park Parking Tax Credit.
Amen. From your keyboard to God's eyes.
It's about time people were first and not some stinking gopher !
“When he set aside the national monuments a few days before he left office, Clinton said: “If there is one thing that unites our fractious, argumentative country across generations, parties and time, it is the love we have for our land.”
What will Bush say if he gets his way on the Endangered Species Act?”
Gut it!! Deep and wide. Mr. Berry needs to take a look at the ‘monuments’ Clinton enacted, like Soda Mtn which only destroyed access to private property, etc. And the use of the ESA as a tool by envirolawyers to get rich from. That is the only purpose it’s served.
It’s silly to worry about Interior Dept. not protecting species, it’s filled with enviroweenies.
You've got to gut 'em before you can eat 'em. There's room for all God's creatures, right next to my mashed potatoes.
Good. The ESA has been used by America hating envirowhacko commies to cripple our energy production for decades.
Considering how many "scientists" are dragging us down the bottomless tunnel of "Global Warming" these new rule changes are a godsend. No more can these so-called experts hold up projects for years at a time.
Bush rushes to gut Endangered Species Act
Good.. The only real endangered species is the Real American.
A "sociologist" is not a scientist. They are leftist created civil servants.
yitbos
Anyone wondering which immediate family members President Bush will need to pardon at the eleventh hour, ala Clinton?
ROFLMAO!
President Bush is awfully good at the ‘Rope a Dope.’ I’m betting he leaves America lots of lovely parting gifts. :)
When I think about how much money the ESA has managed to keep out of the American economy I would be more than satisfied if the program was brought to a screeching halt.
Gut it isn’t good enough, eliminate it!
Getting Gale Norton out of interior probably didn’t hurt this effort either.
Did you know she and Grover Norquist founded their own enviromental non-profit before she was named secretary?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html
Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff
“The groups named in the report are Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform; the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, which was co-founded by Norquist and Gale Norton before she became secretary of the interior;”
Yep... If Obama wins, then Bush needs to sign a stack of orders tying his hamds. Reinstate the drilling ban, for exaample, and Obama will spend the next 4 years whining about the greedy oil companies.
Another good one would be reversing the toon EO that doesn’t allow the enviro scam groups to be sued.
They should be required to prove their case just like anyone else - I would love to see what they think of as proof aired in a court room.
. If it were ever calculated the money that has been spent per species on this ridiculous act, people would just die.
Around here it's the squawfish - all 150 of them, upon which untold, and uncounted millions have been spent, water rights uprooted and stolen, farms and fisheries ruined, etc ad naseum.
Drought in CA ? The record snowfall we had in Colorado this year might have helped - but Interior squandered it on scouring out the river channels for the squawfish !
They said they would have enough water to do everything they wanted to and still satisfy existing ( and prior) users, and reservoir filling; but later it turned out they miscalculated, so our reservoirs, which should have filled, lost out on 20 % of our water.
The entire thing should be scrapped !
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