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Critics Resigning Over Bush's Green Rules
Los Angeles Times (requires registration) ^
| 06/03/2002
| Elizabeth Shogren
Posted on 06/03/2002 9:43:09 AM PDT by RFH
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON -- James Furnish is hardly the kind of person you'd expect to quit his government job on principle during the Bush administration. A political conservative and an evangelical Christian, he voted for President Bush and plans to do the same in 2004.
As a deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service, he was eager to give his new bosses the benefit of his more than 30 years of experience in the agency. He realized his conservationist ethic might not always prevail. But he was ready to say his piece and then accept the new administration's direction.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; environmental; epa; green
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To: rhombus
He who fights everywhere wins nowhere.
OTOH, those who always attack where their opposition is weakest will win far more often than not.
21
posted on
06/03/2002 10:15:49 AM PDT
by
hchutch
To: RFH
Bush needs to just shut down the EPA, the Forest service, and the Bureau of land management. Fish and Wildlife too.
22
posted on
06/03/2002 10:16:19 AM PDT
by
monday
To: monday
I hope more of these Edward Abbey-worshippers quit--the fewer eco-greenie wack-jobs, the better.
To: Eva
I think that the new Democrat strategy is to try to separate Bush from his conservative base. CORRECTAMUNDO!
To: Siobhan
A good laxative would help him immensely... Yes. The whiner definitely suffers from a retentive anus.
25
posted on
06/03/2002 10:23:22 AM PDT
by
ppaul
To: Eva
"I think that the new Democrat strategy is to try to separate Bush from his conservative base. Watch for more articles describing Bush as a liberal."I am confused? Doesn't Bush want articles describing him as a liberal? I thought that the whole strategy was to take all the Democrat issues away so that moderates would vote for Republicans this fall?
Why else would he sign CFR and the Farm bill.
26
posted on
06/03/2002 10:30:03 AM PDT
by
monday
To: madfly
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Instead, Furnish reluctantly left the government in the fall, at a substantial financial sacrificeHold the phone: he quit "in the fall" and we're just hearing about it now, today, with all these other "reports" out there this weekend?
Don't tell me this isn't a CONCERTED effort on somebody's part.
28
posted on
06/03/2002 10:33:32 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: rintense
Remember this: if Rush and Drudge hadn't manufactured this little tempest in a teapot, today we'd be hearing about Bush's "rude" remark on the phone Saturday.
BTW, I have cable on today; NOBODY is talking about this. NOBODY.
29
posted on
06/03/2002 10:35:12 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: RFH
"...one of a number of senior career officials across several environmental agencies who have quit since the Bush administration took over." The more holdover Enviro-Zealots who leave the bureaucracy, the better!!
MUD
To: RFH
I'm soooooo confused..... That makes two of us.
31
posted on
06/03/2002 10:35:27 AM PDT
by
kcvl
To: GuillermoX
Did you read the report?
32
posted on
06/03/2002 10:35:43 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Eva
I was thinking the same thing when I read the titleIs anybody counting? This makes two CONFIRMED contortions of headlines in less than 24 hours.
33
posted on
06/03/2002 10:36:47 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Fred Mertz
LOL......I love the part about this guy thinking that he could give them the "benefit of his experience/knowledge." Liberals are SO full of themselves.
34
posted on
06/03/2002 10:37:40 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: MeeknMing
Say, can you find anything about the Forest Service having a lot of scandals during the Clinton administration? I think I remember something.......something about a big fire somewhere???
35
posted on
06/03/2002 10:38:53 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
Might be three , see post #27.
To: RFH
Now if only we can rid ourselves of Madame Whitman, all will be well.
To: rhombus
Do you really want to stand by principles and hand the commander-and-chief title over to a democrat? Yes, they do. They are willing to sacrifice ANYTHING so they can say, "See, we were right." They live for it.
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posted on
06/03/2002 10:40:25 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: RFH
Furnish reluctantly left the GovernmentDon't let the screen door hit ya'.
Bring all your friends. Plenty of jobs available to replace that "substantial financial sacrifice" you so nobly, made. Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council.......
I hear they pay all their exec's six figure salaries. Anybody wanna bet we see him at one of these or some related "Think Tank"?
To: ducati_guy
Too bad Rush chose to spin for the democrats.....it's clear that he has lost any intellectual honesty. Not that Rush was ever an intellectual, but lately he's proving he is quite 'over'.
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