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In reply to the discussion: Obama 2012! [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)because I am sure that NO OTHER President would ever have done such a thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Monument_(United_States)
"George W. Bush proclaimed two very different monuments in 2006, the hundredth anniversary of the Antiquities Act. African Burial Ground National Monument is a tiny archeological site in New York City. Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument protects roughly 140,000 square miles (360,000 km²) of the Pacific Ocean, larger than all of America's national parks combined.[1] (It was renamed Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in 2007).
Presidents have used the Antiquities Act's proclamation authority not only to create new national monuments but to enlarge existing ones. For example, Franklin D. Roosevelt significantly enlarged Dinosaur National Monument in 1938, Lyndon B. Johnson added Ellis Island to Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and Jimmy Carter made major additions to Glacier Bay and Katmai National Monuments in 1978.
In January 2009, President George W. Bush used the Antiquities Act to create the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument."
Oh, and I don't see how anything in that long list comes close to equalling the damage done here
http://economy.cbh.com/2010/12/two-year-extension-of-bush-era-tax-cuts-becomes-law/