Posted on 03/19/2010 3:04:54 PM PDT by raptor22
Politics: The water spigots are back on, at least temporarily, in California's Central Valley. Turned off to protect a tiny fish, they happen to be in the districts of two congressmen "undecided" on health care reform.
One could chalk it up to good fortune or just good constituent service. But in the middle of a contentious health care debate marked by Cornhusker Kickbacks and Louisiana Purchases, we may be forgiven if we find an announcement by the Department of the Interior regarding California's water supply a tad too coincidental.
On Tuesday, the Department of the Interior announced it was increasing water allocations for the Central Valley of California, a region that depends on these water allocations for local agriculture and jobs. The timing adds to our suspicions.
According to the Interior announcement, "Typically (the Bureau of) Reclamation would release the March allocation update around March 22nd, but moved up the announcement at the urging of Senators (Diane) Feinstein and (Barbara) Boxer, and Congressmen (Jim) Costa and (Dennis) Cardoza."
Blue Dog Democrats Costa, who represents California's 20th Congressional District (Fresno), and Cardoza, who represents the 18th (Stockton to Modesto), are both listed as "undecided" in the upcoming vote on health care reform, whether it be on the Senate bill itself or the "deem and pass" resolution known as the Slaughter rule, after Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter.
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Have they release the water for the marshes yet.
some were saying that was the site of the Garden of Eden.
If the vote goes against Obama, does the water get turned off again?
You betcha!
What’s next... buying votes with health care? energy? school loans? jobs?
I think I see where this is headed...
Will this bring the dead trees in orchards back to life?
What is to keep them from turning it off again if the vote goes for 0baMao?
Seems to me that Bush had contractors in southern Iraq almost immediately to return the river to its natural state in that area.
wonder if drilling restrictions will be lifted in key states when they need votes for immigration
anyway we can get this out there
If this is how Obama handles the power over irrigation, think how he’ll use the power to withhold health care.
Obama has made the US a joke. I am ashamed to be an American.
The Chicago Way is corrupt and should not hold the reins of power at all.
I really can’t handle this anymore.
None of the backroom deals yet has ticked me off as much as this one. Either it was environmentally responsible to save the lil fishes or it wasn’t. It had to be vital to turn off water to some of the most productive soil on Earth. Well, we all know it wasn’t. But they destroyed farms and orchards, farmers and workers - all with the assent of Feinstein/Boxer and these Congresscrooks.
That is the most frightening thought.
Votes are being bought as we speak...that is why some Dems. are holding out saying they may vote against it...if they are holding out it is for $$$$$ cause they know it’s going to hit the fan and they will have to run or face Obama’s wrath and destruction if they cross him. YOU KNOW some are being threatened. This is horrible..just horrible.
Environmentalism is never about the environment. It is about control and power.
How DARE Obama play mind games with that little fish. After all, the fish should be more important than anything. Isn’t that the reason the water was turned off in the first place? Environmentalists are okay with it now huh? What a freakin’ joke they are. Hello environmentalists?
Sit, Dennis
Speak, Dennis
Roll Over, Dennis
Good Boy, Dennis
Ahem, we do have the midwest. You know where the corn and wheat are grown, as well as cattle? Central Valley may be the bread basket of California, but the midwest is the bread basket of the US.
Molotov cocktails next?
What the he*************??? What are people waiting for???
The first shot to be fired. Seriously.
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Then God Bless the one who does!!!
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