Republicans Plan to Challenge Obama's Reversal of Bush Wilderness Policy

[Harry Hope]

Source: Fox News


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/25/republicans-plan-challenge-obamas-reversal-bush-wilderness-policy/

Republicans Plan to Challenge Obama's Reversal of Bush Wilderness Policy

December 25, 2010


The Obama administration's decision this week to reverse a Bush-era policy and restore eligibility for federal wilderness protection to millions of undeveloped acres of land has outraged Republicans who plan to challenge the move once they take control of the House next month.

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The Interior Department is replacing the 2003 policy adopted under former Interior Secretary Gale Norton. That policy -- derided by some as the "No More Wilderness" policy -- stated that new areas could not be recommended for wilderness protection by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and it opened millions of acres to potential commercial development.



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So what's new?

Harry

[Bobbieo]

1. New Year's Greetings to the Oil, Mining and Timber barons!

Where does our Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, stand on all of this?

[Tx4obama]

6. It says where Salazar stands in the article

Excerpt:

The Interior Department is replacing the 2003 policy adopted under former Interior Secretary Gale Norton. That policy -- derided by some as the "No More Wilderness" policy -- stated that new areas could not be recommended for wilderness protection by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and it opened millions of acres to potential commercial development.

That policy "frankly never should have happened and was wrong in the first place," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday during the announcement of the policy change.

Environmental activists have been pushing for the Obama administration to restore protections for potential wilderness areas.

Salazar said the agency will review some 220 million acres of BLM land that's not currently under wilderness protection to see which should be given a "Wild Lands" designation -- a new first step for land awaiting a wilderness decision. Congress would decide whether those lands should be permanently protected, Salazar said.


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Bottom line - Obama policy GOOD - Bush policy BAD :)

[elleng]

2. Good. Let them.

[Bobbieo]

3. Guess I wasted a lot of time signing 'Save the wildlife' petitions.

[Tx4obama]

5. Huh?

Read the article again.
Under the Obama administration MORE places will be eligible to be protected.

It's the Bush policy that is the bad one.

[Bobbieo]

9. I've read the article a couple of times but am still confused about Salazar's

policies. I'm never certain if he is with Obama or the oil lobbyists.

I know it is the Bush policy that is the bad one and I also know Bush spent one helluva lot of "lame duck' hours setting up his political appointees in the Interior Dept and Circuit Courts that are still in place. It is almost impossible to weed them all out and they are still systemically carryng out Bush policies, so, that does let Salazar off to a certain degree

[elleng]

7. No. I expect they'll get their asses kicked, as they should.

[RC]

4. Why do some think we have to exploit or destroy every vintage of Mother Nature

Why do some think we have to exploit or destroy every vintage of Mother Nature for someone's profit?

Do not other life forms on this planet have a right to exist also?
Chop it down, Pave it over. Plow it up, Shoot it, trap it, poison it, kill it for a trophy in the living room.

The plants and animals were here first. We are the weeds in the lawn of life. We are the parasites that are killing the host.
Our arrogance is the seed for our own destruction. We need to learn to respect the only home we will ever have.
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"When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes.
When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things.
We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees.
We only use dead wood. But the white people plow up the ground, pull down the trees, kill everything. ...
the White people pay no attention. ...
How can the spirit of the earth like the White man? ...
everywhere the White man has touched it, it is sore."

Wintu Woman, 19th Century

[AlbertCat]

12. Why do some think we have to exploit or destroy every vintage of Mother Nature

Well, the big spook in the sky said we have "dominion" over nature. Besides, the Earth is so big , what effect could us puny humans have on it? And of course as everyone knows, everything stays the same as it was and ever shall be. We can't change it!

Right?

[Thor_MN]

17. Money,money, money,money

MONEY!$!$!$!$!$!$

[lunatica]

19. Because, as Ann Coulter says, the earth is here for us to rape it

Her exact quote is,

"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"

[Tempest]

8. Never get past the Senate and they know it

It's just red meat for their supporters.

[totodeinhere]

11. That's true. But such futile efforts as this on their part will tie up the legislative process

and prevent the passage of useful legislation. President Obama now says that he is all for bipartisanship. Let's see how that works out with the puke controlled House.

[AlbertCat]

13. It's just red meat for their supporters.

A way to look busy when they really aren't doing anything... like for the last 2 decades.

[askeptic]

22. Based on article, no approval of Bush policy by Congress...

Therefore, I am having a hard time trying to understand why congressional approval needed to reverse. I know, the R's still can't accept Obama as President, but he has same power as Bush.

[siligut]

10. Exactly; what's new?

SOS

[rasputin1952]

14. Let them...

these jerks are really planning on screwing up for the next election!

First of all, we love our Wilderness areas, and hate bush and his destructive cronies...making the rest of the GOP look like they are destroying even more will play nicely into the hands of those of us w/more than 2 functioning brain cells...and that leaves R's out of the picture...:D

[Frisbee]

15. My Christmas wish...

was to wake up and find that there were no more republicans. Whether they were part of a bad dream, or somehow just vanished really wasn't inmportant. They are evil and intent on destroying everything good for their own short term personal gain. I absolutely hate them and everything they stand for and sincerely beleive they world would be a much better place without them. May not be the best example of the "Chrismas spirit", but I really don't care. They are truly evil.

[rpannier]

16. has outraged Republicans

That Obama is President outrages Republicans.
Their hyperbolic reactions to everything he does or says is just irritating

In the words of the late President Harry S. Truman, "Tell them to go to hell!" The actual quote is "Tell him to go to hell!" (When informed that President Roosevelt wanted him to be his Vice-Presidential running mate, Truman replied, "Tell him to go to hell!")

[mwb970]

18. The damned republicans are so predictable.

Always the wrong answer. Always.

[lunatica]

20. They're desperate to create wedge issues

I didn't know the loss of their favorite 'Gay Agenda' wedge issue would send them into a tailspin. Damn, just another good thing that comes from the repeal of DADT. It'll be the gift that keeps on giving. Who knew?

[salib]

21. Now there is a battle I would like to see fought

Just one more brick in the road of returning the House to us Dems.

[SpartanDem]

23. God forbid that we don't pave over every sqaure inch

of the country. Anyway, they can't do anything about it so all this talk about challenging Obama is hot air