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Posted on 01/10/2009 10:02:37 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
It’s hard to pinpoint the worst part of the public lands legislation bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling up for an under-the-radar Sunday tomorrow.
The 1200-page, pork-laden, $10 billion proposal locks up millions of acres of energy-rich property by designating it an environmentalist-friendly “federal wilderness” area where not even as much as a bicycle would be permitted to travel across the land. Many of these areas recently became available when the ban on domestic drilling in Western states expired last fall and the liberal left couldn’t muster the courage to keep it in place due to rising energy prices.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Reid is making the land grab a priority and is calling members of the Senate back to Washington on Sunday to rush it through. And the bill, which is basically an omnibus compilation of pet projects, land seizures sponsored by individual House members and senators, has wide-ranging, bipartisan support since it helps many of them secure support from stakeholders in their home states and districts.
No the ban will be lifted when Reid is ready to make a few more $ and when he has finished purchasing all of this land he wants.
Pay no attention to what is happening in the right hand, just watch what is happening in the left hand.
There is no money for a land grab.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. has pledged to filibuster. He says the spending in the bill is excessive — nearly $4 billion over five years — and that the measure calls for removing millions of acres of federal property from oil and gas development.
Liberals pushing their pet projects, spending our money and getting what they want.
It's going o be a long four years...
Thank you, Senator Coburn!
At least we know we have one true friend of the tax-payer in Washington.
(We just need 99 more.)
Barney Frank's butt grab...
Are we surprised that the socialists want to control everything possible so they limit the space to exercize freedom?
Making more places off limits to private citizens gives freedom fighters fewer places to operate from safely.
When the crunch time comes,freedom fighters will operate anywhere they want.
1200 pages of LibTard ideology brought home to roost...made real by the shallow Hal of the Senate, Harry Screed.
Just another chapter in the march toward socialism.
Lock and Load.
BLOAT.
But the important thing is we taught them RINOs a lesson.
You sound like my wife, who is resolutely unwilling to cut any slack for the estimated 7 million Republican voters who came out for Bush in 2004, but failed to show up for McCain in '08.
While I voted for McCain -- even while believing that a McCain administration had the potential to be disastrous for the country (and, thus, the party) -- I also believed that an Obama administration was a certain catastrophe for all concerned. Some choice, huh? Far worse than Ford-Carter, in my opinion.
I recognize, though, why a good number of conservative voters wouldn't come out for McCain. Given a party that has repeatedly insulted its base -- with bogus campaign finance reform infringing on free speech, with amnesty diluting national sovereignty and discounting citizenship, with out-of-control spending -- it was perfectly understandable that many conservatives would say "enough".
If a party wants a person's vote, they're obligated to offer a platform that one can favor (on balance) -- and,given power, to govern accordingly. It's a proven marketing principle. And, certainly, a marketer is advised not to insult his best customers at the same time they ask for his business.
But the GOP chose another direction and, in many respects, deserved exactly what it got.
Not that this will make the next four years any easier. At the same time, we'll have to see if the GOP learned any lessons from this experience.
Good for Coburn (as usual). At least if his dandrufy-ness pulls this one off, he won’t be able to do it under the cover of darkness. Which will make for political gain and maybe make it easier to fix later.
What do we do to stop this?
Ugh! Five years ago I left California in search of the American dream. With this turd being from my state, it looks I went from California to California-lite!
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