Oh hooray, the House Republicans also have a underhanded bullshit scheme to completely gut America’s environmental protections:
Instead of moving stand-alone legislation or openly debating the merits of gutting America’s environmental protections, the House is trying to sneak more than 40 anti-environment amendments and policy riders to the Interior Appropriations bill.
And that’s even before it comes to the floor, where many members of Congress have already announced plans to amend the bill and make it even worse.
There are too many dangerous provisions to go into details on each, but some of the most outrageous that have already been added include:
- Blocking EPA from regulating deadly pollution like mercury, smog, and soot from power plants and cement plants. The pollution that these facilities would then be allowed to spew could cause up to 27,800 premature deaths.
- Opening up lands immediately next to the Grand Canyon to uranium mining, despoiling one of the most iconic landscapes in the United States, and potentially contaminating its waters with radioactivity.
- Stripping Clean Water Act protections for the drinking water sources of 117 million Americans.
- Driving endangered plants and animals to extinction, by preventing federal agencies from listing any species as endangered or protecting their critical habitats.
Go here and sign this thing and maybe let some people know, if you know anybody who actually gives a hoot about poison raining from the sky or America’s remaining public lands being raped & destroyed so the Koch Brothers can make a few more million somewhere like the Grand Canyon. [Earth Justice/Common Dreams]
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Shorter bill: the "P" in EPA now stands for Profits.
They are missing some key efficiencies here… They should round up all the endangered animals, feed them the endangered plants and contaminated drinking water, and use the animal labor to mine uranium and dump the tailings into the Grand Canyon.
You know what's deeply disturbing? You could most likely pull off the most devastating ironic scheme in history by using the logic you display above and applying for a staff position for one of these gorgons.
You, my friend, have just been shortlisted as head of the EPA in next GOP administration.
as long as our Monster Energy Drink supply remains safe, i'm not expecting much outrage
It's got electrolytes!
It is what plants and endangered animals crave!
Perhaps we can change their minds if we explain to them that if they destroy the environment, Kortney won't be able to enjoy her vegetables anymore…
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!
Honestly, it's like Republicans just don't care anymore. I say we round them all up and ship them en masse to a containment cell at Yucca Mountain.
You're going to need a double-cask for Shelly Bachmann. It is not easy to bottle up all that crazy.
GOP="Getting Our Plutarchy" no matter what you say or do.
I cannot begin to fathom how much time and energy these monsters put into dreaming up new ways to be evil.
Honestly, it's like Snidely Whiplash on amphetamines. Or Ming the Merciless with a cloning factory.
The congresscritters don't have to think this shit up. Lobbyists are whispering in their ears all day, every day.
Starting to think the GOP's concern about the world we leave "our grandchildren" is fake.
"Concern" implies thought. "Concern" implies that they do not believe that Rick-Perry-Style mega-prayer is the solution to every problem.
Priorities people! The environment is an evanescent dream, profits are forever.
But, remember, the GOP is the Party of Sportsmen.
Let's see how much they like catching five eyed fish in a coupla years, though.
"A faceless government is taking away their lifeline, water, all because of a 3-inch fish," "Where I come from, a 3-inch fish, we call that bait. There is no need to destroy people's lives over bait."
-Sarah Palin April 2011
This clip shows the process at work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XChxLGnIwCU
Only instead of water in those buckets, it's bullshit.
Hey global warming/ impact-denying/ myopically-deluded GOP,
♪The weather is here
Wish you were teachable ♫
I guess if God cared about say the spotted owl he would have given them second amendment rights like he did us.
and guns. God would have given them guns. And an American Express card. To buy ammo.
Oh, great! Now the Interior Department can be shut down just like most of the FAA! This may be the new Republican strategy: close down the federal government one agency at a time by larding their budget authorizations with provisions that Dems will not vote for.
i wish i didn't actually believe that.
Well, they declared war on the EPA back at the beginning of the year for making it too expensive for businesses to manufacture things in the United States.
This falls into Michele Bachmann's vision of returning America to an economic powerhouse like China or India.
Karma, you bitch, where the hell are you?!?!?
Jeebus ain't need no tree,,,, cut them all
Sure, it's one thing to intentionally crash the U.S. economy on the off-chance that some drooling, Hoverrounding teabaggers will blame it on Obama. But it's not like we can order up a brand new environment from GE™ when we're finished trashing the only one we have. These people really are evil.
That's what virtual reality is for, my friend. Prepare for your Matrix-type future in a pod, brought to you by the Real Patriot Party®.
Yay…jobs? I guess they can stop pretending they're doing tax cuts or deregulation for the economy or 'good' of the country, now they're just straight up kicking us while we're down. 'Why are we doing this? BECAUSE, that's why!'
But, think about it, if you can poison the environment so that most of the poor die off, you won't need this bloated and expensive government that we have. This is a perfect Conservative solution.
[Confidential to "Libs thank B."
OK, it's been months, now, that you've been doing this. At first, I thought maybe you got some trollish delight from taking away our super-valuable internet points. Maybe you even thought yourself heroic, standing up to the libunatics like you do. I didn't really care. But now it's really starting to appear...compulsive...and everyone is concerned about you. I am not going to recommend you go to therapy, because that's just a libtard plot to get you to talk about your feelings outside of the relationship you have with your keyboard and guns, but maybe go outside? Hang out with your kids? You don't even have to go to one of those socialist parks. This could be a mall or Wal*Mart or whatever. Go to a bar and tell a stranger about your social theories. In detail; don't spare the made up economics or hyper-religiosity! You will feel better.
I guarantee it.]
For those of you who don't know, our troll has renamed himself to "Libs thank Breivik," which is probably the most odious of his pseudonyms so far. To turn the sickness that is right-wing fanaticism into some supposed gift to liberals (we're all grateful the terrorist wasn't some Muslim or liberal terrorist, I guess?) is to reveal his own sick predilections — projecting on us his own foul idea that loss of innocent life can be used to score political points. Not everybody thinks like you do, troll — in fact, you represent the sickest sliver of your ideology. Get some fuckin' help.
We could take up a collection. How much to get a stripper to pay attention to him for 10 minutes?
I'm sure there's no way we could afford an actual prostitute.
huh. i just thought he had a crush on us.
In a vague way, the fact that he doesn't very slightly disappoints me…
This explains lackluster fisting today. Man, that guy has time on his hand.
Yes, hand.
The way I see it, the more mercury and uranium I get, the more likely it is I'll develop cool superpowers.
They hate us! They really hate us!
Why not require all polluting plants to be located in Republican states? Especially those pollutants that cause infertility?
How about when you libs stop farting methane all up into the atmosphere, then we'll see how serious you are about protecting the environment.
Actually, thanks to my healthy organic Californian diet, I now only fart daydreams and gumdrops. The cows that you consume, on the other hand….
daydreams and gumdrops AND rainbows. C'mon, get with the program.
You know what the environment needs? It needs government to get off its back, that's what!
Those tree frogs and spotted owls are never gonna get ahead in life if they don't wise up and extinctify themselves.
BBQ!
These bastards can read the writing on the wall and are grabbing everything they can destroy prior to the next election just in case the Diebold machines don't work as planned.
well to be fair, it's not like the environment NEEDS any protecting or anything. i mean, i certainly haven't noticed any unusual weather patterns or anything.
Well, if you kill off the animals and plants, then it becomes pretty hard to prove evolution, now doesn't it?
all you sissy liberals just quit your crying – a little mercury never hurt anybody
And think of the uptick in tourism once the Grand Canyon glows in the dark.
"The pollution that these facilities would then be allowed to spew could cause up to 27,800 premature deaths."
Hey, wouldn't that be like abortions?
No, no — these people were born, so it's not like the innocent were being killed or anything.
What is it, exactly, that these Conservatives are conserving?
Help! This Wonkette post does not appear on my main Wonkette page. I got here via TheStranger.com. This has been happening with other stories as well. Can anyone tell me what's going on? (I'm on the W coast, in case mirroring servers are involved).
I've found this as well…the only way to get these posts is to click on the glasses on the main page. Something I usually forget to do!
Bastards.
Next on the agenda: outlaw Muslins, make self-flagellation a nation-wide requirement for Queer Studies degrees, and hold a spitting contest.
…and this is newsworthy because……..
Are there any surveys/polls/forums we can warblog on anymore?
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