Morford Rides Again - Damn Hippie Liberal Trees!

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"No natural resource has been left unmolested: From forest management to air quality to water pollution to emissions standards to land management to industrial farming to reduced controls on heavy polluters to global warming to nuclear waste to our energy policy, BushCo has made atrociously efficient progress in decimating, in just three short years, 30 years of staunch environmental protections.

Dubya, by way of his industry cronies, have initiating more than 200 major rollbacks of America's most significant environmental laws. Hey, it's nothing new: As governor of Texas, Bush made his state No. 1 in thick smudgy black air and water pollution that makes babies gag and eyes water and cancer cells flourish. He had the ugliest enviro record of any governor in the state's history.

He has openly sodomized the Clean Air Act. He has given the green light to clear cutting the nation's largest old-growth forest, Alaska's stunning Tongass National Forest. He is allowing huge industrial polluters extensive new freedoms to pump toxins into rivers and lakes. He has scoffed at the Kyoto Treaty, even as the world's top scientists wave proof after proof of the reality of global warming in his face."

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Here's how successful the GOP's antienvironment brainwashing has been: With the exception of Dennis Kucinich, not one of the major Demo presidential candidates has truly focused on environmental issues in the debates or in their campaign speeches, for fear of being labeled "too liberal." Thanks to the GOP, to talk too much about the health of the planet now is to be thought of as anticapitalist and antiprogress and an outright traitor to the American causes of money-uber-alles and the-world-is-our-sandbox."

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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=14714

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1. Great article

Morford really tells it like it is. I'm posting this outside my cubicle.

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