The Ultimate LAME DUCK OF ALL LAME DUCK PRESIDENTS is going over the heads of *HIS* Congress and the American people, is he??
BRING IT ON.
How do you spell “domestic terrorism? O-b-a-m-a. Keep contributing money to those running against the Obama agenda, like Marco Rubio and J.D. Hayworth. I would also like to see the Tea Party movement start taking in contributions to get the “Miss me yet? President Bush billboards put up all over our country. Finally, in our own neck of the woods, we need to start pressuring good people like Matt Shea to run against the very liberal senator, Patty Murray. She doesn’t have any formidable conservative opponent campaigning against her yet.
To everyone who doubted me”: I told you so....
A document recently obtained from the DOI indicates the Obama Administration is considering a flurry of new national monument designations in the near future. The document mentions designations and land acquisitions in 11 different western states: Utah, Montana, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, and Wyoming. As many as 13 million acres of land (possibly more) are at risk for potential designation. Coincidentally, nearly every one of these proposed designations involve areas with energy potential.
Designations are declared by the President under he 1906 Antiquities Act. This Act was designed to protect small areas of land and specific items of archeological, scientific, or historic importance which were in imminent danger of destruction. The legislation instructs the President to reserve “the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected.” During initial debate on the Act, the argument was whether to allow the maximum designation to be 320 or 640 acres.
President Clinton abused the Act 22 times to designate nearly 5.9 million acres of federal land as national monuments. Many of these designations far exceeded the “smallest area compatible” to preserve the resource and nearly all were designated without any public input or consultation with state and local officials.
One infamous designation was the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah. The Utah delegation was not informed of the designation until the day before the announcement. This designation robbed nearly $2 billion from Utah’s schoolchildren because rich coal deposits within the monument could not be developed. It also robbed the State of Utah and Federal government of nearly $315 billion worth of coal and coal-bed methane resources, along with $1.1 billion of oil, gas, and nonfuel minerals.
These designations are just one more example of a renewed War on the West that would public limit access,
reduce domestic energy production, ignore basic property rights, and impede job creation in Western states.
Proposed new designations: San Rafael Swell, UT; Montana’s Northern Prairie, MT; Lesser Prairie Chicken Preserve, NM; Baryessa Snow Mt., CA; Heart of Great Basin, NV; Otero Mesa, NM; NW Sonora Desert, AZ; Owyhee Desert, OR/NV; Cascade-Siskiyou Expansion, OR/CA; Vermillion Basin, CO; Bodie Hills, CA; Modoc Plateau, CA; Cedar Mesa Region, UT; San Juan Islands, WA; Bristol Bay region, AK; Teshetpuk Lake, AK; Red Desert. WY; Alpine Triangle, CO; Upper Missouri River, MT; Pioneer Range, ID; John Day River, OR; Upper Green River Valley, WY; National Historic and Scenic Trails and conolidation of cxheckerboard lands (various states.)
"Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."
Proverbs 16:18
I am glad Janet Napolitiano and her minions are monitoring Free Republic, and a host of other web sites. If she really wanted to keep us safe, she would monitor the Council on Americain-Islamic Relations website.
But then again, her stated enemies are military veterans, Christians, and those opposed to abortion.
Obama signed 38 EOs in 2009.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2009-obama.html
I hope this purple-lipped SOB keeps on keeping on....we will bring him down, and the democrat criminals in the US Congress, and any GOP turncoats who cooperate in the least with the crack-head TOTUS.