Bald eagles for breakfast: The Texas GOP stays adorably insane

[KamaAina]

http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2016/06/03/bald-eagles-for-breakfast-the-texas-gop-stays-adorably-insane/

What’s that? You want to shoot a bald eagle, patriotic Texan? Go for it, macho man.

After all, Texas is the land of private game reserves, unholy places where grossly entitled males like Dick Cheney and Antonin Scalia went on drunken “canned hunts” to shoot pheasant and lawyers and exotic animals from the privacy of their own chauffeured Mercedes 4x4s.

Translation: Of course the Texas GOP wants to repeal the Endangered Species Act – which, until 10 years ago, had listed the bald eagle as a protected creature, driven nearly to extinction through a combination of illegal shooting, DDT and habitat destruction.

Good news! The bald eagle is now flourishing, ready once again to be shot and munched on for breakfast should you so desire, Texas Republican. All thanks to – you guessed it – the Endangered Species Act – and the Environmental Protection Agency, which banned the lethal DDT. Official platform of the Texas GOP? Abolish both agencies – and about 15 more, including the IRS and the Departments of Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Labor, the Bureau of Land Management, Transportation Security Administration, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and National Labor Relations Board.

[ShrimpPoboy]

1. Its not that Republicans want to eat bald eagles

Its just that they have no idea of the consequences that would follow from the scale of deregulation they're always crowing about. That's especially true if environmental issues like this.

[UTUSN]

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