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Outrageous!

[HereInTheHeartland]

Again; what a perfect story that could be used in a Presidential debate to illustrate why there is too much govt.
Reagan would have used this.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think I smell another Holder “lawsuit” against Arizona.

[FoxInSocks]

Get some chain gangs out there to make big rocks into little rocks and get the job started. It’s shovel ready!

[BigCinBigD]

I would fix it anyway, and if any bureaucrats showed up. Well let's just say the desert is a big place.

[GeronL]

This is totally insane.

[piytar]

Um, when a government denies people WATER, they get cranky. As in revolution cranky.

After all, you can only live 3 days without water. Even if the fedgov sends troops and kills you, you live longer...

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Tombstone should advertise a special on “Heritage Green Energy Adventure Holidays”. For a reasonable fee (affordable for champagne liberals everywhere), you could travel (you arrange that part) to Tombstone, stay in specially priced (much higher price, just for you) historic hotel rooms, and use heritage tools powered by green energy (conversion of a layer of your fat into useful energy) to repair an eco-friendly hydration system (no plastic bottles involved).

[montanajoe]

So do it!!

I'm so tired of the righteous indignation pushed by the spin doctors of both parties.

Folks actually doing something instead of bitching could be a start to change things.. Blah Blah Blah on the right is nothing more than blah blah balh on the left.

Do it...

[petitfour]

Do it anyway!

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Will the EPA send the horse calvery out to enforce the ruling?

[rockinqsranch]

Sic those arrogant DC bureaucrats on ‘em. There’s a reason it’s called “Tombstone”.

[alexander_busek]

[...] federal bureaucrats are refusing to allow Tombstone to unearth its springs and restore its waterlines unless they jump through a lengthy permitting process that will require the city to use horses and hand tools to remove boulders the size of Volkswagens.

The article doesn't say: Will Tombstone be allowed at least to use wheeled vehicles, or will they be required to move the slabs of stone over rolling logs, Ancient Egyptian-style?

Regards,

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

were I the Mayor of Tombstone I would just ignore the sorry SOB’s in DC and fix the pipeline.... how would they stop me? send out the troops? Oh what a media circus THAT would be.

[antceecee]

Tombstone should live up to their name and BURY THEM.

[Eye of Unk]

Frankly I suspect Obama is having a perpetual temper tantrum against Arizona because of Sheriff Joe.

What needs to be done is to just tell the Feds to go piss up a rope.

[blueplum]

When will people ever learn? just do it, and clue the feds in after the fact. What are thefeds gonna do? rubyridge Tombstone over water?

[A Navy Vet]

Spent 2 days in Tombstone back in 2005 as part of the Minute-men project. Doubt this will Fedgov intrusion will go further. Talk about the last of the pioneers.

[RC one]

They should defy the federal government and refuse to comply with that BS directive. What’s Holder gonna do, send in the national guard to force them to comply? let him.

[R. Scott]

The Forest Service can’t grant a waver? What’s wrong with those bureaucrats?

[driftless2]

You could not make this up. This is the epitome of the government bureaucrat as “benevolent” dictator paradigm. Don’t you dare risk harming those wonderful, slimy reptiles who’ll bite your hand at the first opportunity. Die of thirst first. Of course, this is probably simply a case of slimy reptiles in Washington looking out for their own kind.