[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for this great find and post.

We have a lot of conservatives who bitch and moan everyday that there is no difference between GW and the Goron. Or they mutter their mantras that he is a dupe for the NWO and the enviral whackos.

They need to wake and smell the progress that our stealth president has been doing is doing to roll back the agendas of the Watermelons of America. This article is a reality check.

Give him 60 senators in the 2004 election, and you will see a lot more progress in rolling back the agendas of the Watermelon Jidadists the past 3 decades.

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Halfway into his four-year term, President Bush has significantly altered the nation's environmental policies, often without attracting much notice.

A handful of his most controversial policies have made headlines, notably his abandonment of an international treaty on global warming, approval of a federal dump for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and his proposal to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

But Bush's administration has slipped a number of major policy changes under the public's and the media's radar by quietly issuing executive orders that don't require congressional approval, making announcements late on Fridays, rewriting highly technical environmental regulations and muzzling dissent within the administration.

The Mercury News Washington Bureau asked three dozen experts in the environmental-protection and business communities to assess the administration's environmental record at midterm. They cited more than 50 major changes in policy, including:

• Dramatically stepping up drilling for oil and natural gas on public land.

• Loosening environmental restrictions on logging and mining on federal property.

• Easing rules that require environmental-impact assessments before thinning national forests, starting certain military activities such as bombing practice and building major transportation projects such as airports or highways.

• The Bush administration is cleaning up 31 percent fewer Superfund sites per month than the Clinton administration did, and polluters are paying 64 percent less in fines per month than they did during the late 1990s, according to a Knight Ridder analysis of settlements published in the Federal Register.

• Rejecting a worldwide treaty to curb global warming and pushing a comprehensive energy plan that stresses reliance on fossil fuels, which cause global warming and air pollution.

• Proposing to weaken the cornerstone air and water pollution laws enacted in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

• Proposing to slash air pollution from power plants by 70 percent and to limit diesel engine emissions.

Environmental-protection groups and many ecologists call the Bush's record deplorable. ``The administration has been like carbon monoxide, hard to detect and deadly with respect to the environment,'' said David Wilcove, a Princeton University ecology professor.

Business interests, conservative think-tank experts and administration officials argue that the president's approach brings refreshing innovation while cutting back excessive regulation.

The administration has embraced ``a new way of thinking that is results-oriented,'' said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. ``It's based on working in a cooperative way. . . . Environmental protection and economic growth can go hand in hand.''

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Anyone, who says there is no difference between GW and the Goron has a very serious problem, and they need professional help!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping and the post!

Remarkable progress is being made by a President that is fighting a War as well!

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks, Grampa Dave. President Bush needs our support more then ever as the enemies of the Republic openly operate within our borders and on our shores. The environazi movement is just one of many tentacles of the beast we know as marXism/socialism,communist, whatever you want to call it. Their end game is control of everything and everyone.

We are Blessed that x43 is a God-fearing man and is prepared to act and not just hum along with the Red Tide while the last great bastion of freedom is, even now in DC and cities nation-wide, under direct assault by its bitter sworn enemies.

[justshe]

Thanks for the ping, Grampa Dave. I am pinging chiller...who started a thread back in December BUSH AGENDA/SCORECARD-"THESE GUYS ARE GOOD" specifically so we would have a list for those who argue there is little or no difference between Bush vs. Gore, or the GOP vs. Dems. If he is still keeping his LIST...I think these environmental actions should be added.

[BOBTHENAILER]

They need to wake and smell the progress that our stealth president has been doing is doing to roll back the agendas of the Watermelons of America. This article is a reality check

Don't ya just love it!

[dixiechick2000]

"Rejecting a worldwide treaty to curb global warming and pushing a comprehensive energy plan that stresses reliance on fossil fuels, which cause global warming and air pollution."

No bias from this writer...

"Anyone, who says there is no difference between GW and the Goron has a very serious problem, and they need professional help!"

Bump! Thanks for the ping, Gramps! President Bush is doing an excellent job!

BTW, all of the babysitting has paid off. Daughter has just been accepted into the Doctorate of Pharmacy School (Pharm-D) at OSU. I guess I'll be babysitting for a while longer.

[Howlin]

Bump!

[blackie]

GWB Is The Man!

Be Well - Be Armed - Be Safe - Molon Labe!

[AuntB]

Pres. Bush has done good. It will be to his deteriment by these eco whackjobs, but nevertheless he's stood up to the challenge.

Interesting note about thinning forests, etc. A program on HGTV showed a bunch of burned trees in Montana where they are logging them for use in log homes. The company paid the forest service $425,000. The program stated this will also help hinder all that dead "fuel" to mitigate further catostrophic fires. If I get to it, I'll transcribe it. Every liberal ecofreak should read it. BTW, there are 25,000 log homes being built per year. This could save Oregon's economy if we could get the ONRC to BACK OFF!