Bush administration puts off roadless rule changes

[Nambe]

The Associated Press

The Bush administration is putting off changes that would have allowed more logging in national forests.

The government says it will wait until after the November election before making a final decision on a plan to allow road building and logging on 58 million acres of remote forests. ..

Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey says the delay is a fairly straightforward response to requests from a variety of groups for more time. He says it's unrelated to the election.

[frank frankly]

1. he'll have to do it on his way out

that miserable bastard POS.

[NMDemDist2]

2. whew---we dodged a bullet for our forests n/t

[Sequoia]

3. ....Blew out my flip flop.....

[aquart]

4. Save our forests, Vote for Kerry!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

5. "Unrelated to the election"

Let me step back before the lightning strikes.

[hatrack]

6. Yes, nothing political to see here, move along . . . .

I always thought that "bullshit" and "transparent" didn't go together. Now I know better.

[jdj]

7. I bet they try to creep around the rules in the interim.

c'mon, geedubya, no one's lookin right now.

They're all off readin' your military records.

(There's no telling what is going down right now.)

[Catfight]

8. We won't be fooled again....Bush made Kerry's slogan easy! n/t