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Bush's Final FU! I told you despite his damage the worst is yet to come!

Gardner : MA : USA | about 1 year ago
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Bush's Final FU!

From our friend Border Explorer, Bush's Final FU! I told you despite his damage the worst is yet to come!
Remember I just did the story Bend over and get ready! Bush the most despicable purposely destructive President in US History! Bush's last days! Anyway now I get this!

With president-elect Barack Obama already taking command of the financial crisis, it's tempting to think that regime change in America is a done deal. But if George Bush has his way, the country will be ruled by his slash-and-burn ideology for a long time to come.

In its final days, the administration is rushing to implement a sweeping array of "midnight regulations" — de facto laws issued by the executive branch — designed to lock in Bush's legacy. Under the last- minute rules, which can be extremely difficult to overturn, loaded firearms would be allowed in national parks, uranium mining would be permitted near the Grand Canyon and many injured consumers would no longer be able to sue negligent manufacturers in state courts. Other rules would gut the Endangered Species Act, open millions of acres of wild lands to mining, restrict access to birth control and put local cops to work spying for the federal government.

"It's what we've seen for Bush's whole tenure, only accelerated," says Gary Bass, executive director of the nonpartisan group OMB Watch. "They're using regulation to cement their deregulatory mind-set, which puts corporate interests above public interests."

While every modern president has implemented last-minute regulations, Bush is rolling them out at a record pace — nearly twice as many as Clinton, and five times more than Reagan. "The administration is handing out final favors to its friends," says Véronique de Rugy, a scholar at George Mason University who has tracked six decades of midnight regulations. "They couldn't do it earlier — there would have been too many political repercussions. But with the Republicans having lost seats in Congress and the presidency changing parties, Bush has nothing left to lose."

The most jaw-dropping of Bush's rule changes is his effort to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act. Under a rule submitted in November, federal agencies would no longer be required to have government scientists assess the impact on imperiled species before giving the go-ahead to logging, mining, drilling, highway building or other development. The rule would also prohibit federal agencies from taking climate change into account in weighing the impact of projects that increase greenhouse emissions — effectively dooming polar bears to death-by-global-warming. According to Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, "They've taken the single biggest threat to wildlife and said, 'We're going to pretend it doesn't exist, for regulatory purposes.'"

Bush is also implementing other environmental rules that will cater to the interests of many of his biggest benefactors:

BIG COAL In early December, the administration finalized a rule that allows the industry to dump waste from mountaintop mining into neighboring streams and valleys, a practice opposed by the governors of both Tennessee and Kentucky. "This makes it legal to use the most harmful coal-mining technology available," says Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. A separate rule also relaxes air-pollution standards near national parks, allowing Big Coal to build plants next to some of America's most spectacular vistas — even though nine of 10 EPA regional administrators dissented from the rule or criticized it in writing. "They're willing to sacrifice the laws that protect our national parks in order to build as many new coal plants as possible," says Mark Wenzler, director of clean-air programs for the National Parks Conservation Association. "This is the last gasp of Bush and Cheney's disastrous policy, and they've proven there's no line they won't cross."

BIG OIL In a rule that becomes effective just three days before Obama takes office, the administration has opened up nearly 2 million acres of mountainous lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for the mining of oil shale — an energy-intensive process that also drains precious water resources. "The administration has admitted that it has no idea how much of Colorado's water supply would be required to develop oil shale, no idea where the power would come from and no idea whether the technology is even viable," says Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado. What's more, Bush is slashing the royalties that Big Oil pays for oil-shale mining from 12.5 percent to five percent. "A pittance," says Salazar. please read on it gets worse

I am already livid knowing he and his team are working overtime to complete his legacy of destruction and screw average Americans and our America as much as possible making it as permanent as possible!

At the same time Obama's team already has a list of 200 "laws "enacted by Bush they will overturn immediately and found a law allowing them to go back 6 months. That too I am sure Bush's team is now looking to override. I know I have said it numerous times but I will reiterate though it should be obvious by now but Bush has until 1/20 to complete his damage and though he has done more damage than every President in History combined he is not done yet and the worst is yet to come!

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Posted By B_H_obama_is_afool B_H_obama_is_afool | about 1 year ago
LOL, obama taking over the finacial crisis. You are joking right? obama and his little group of nuts ( called acorn) are one of the reasons we are in this mess to begin with. Sueing banks to make loans to people that could not even afford to purchase homes- was a mistake. A big fat mistake. Barney Frank and his merry band of morons in the banking and finance committee were no help either when they sat around and did nothing to clean up fannie and freddie. Yet you all go around with your heads in the sand- vote for a fraud-- and have not a clue what really is going on. Bush's big FU is bailing out the UAW-- the group that will not make concessions until their contracts are up in 2011. Something tells me-- there may not be a job left for them to make a contract deal in 2011 if they continue on the merry way of spending money. I have worked in a GM plant as a nurse, and I know what happens there- Unions were fine 50 + years ago- their time is done and over with it. Stick a fork in the UAW-- it's done.
Posted By jmsjoin James Joiner | about 1 year ago
B_H__
You have obviously never indulged in fact! Republican or Democrat should not matter first of all only doing right for America wgich is totally ignored.

Everyone including yourself forget who the self admitted sole decider has been for the last 8 years. Did you ever read the 3nd great depression by Michael Whitney?

There are no surprises here most of all the timing of all this. Think about it! This was engineered by Greenspan for Bush! There is no surprise here. I have multitudes of research and facts but you must be unbiased engage brain and search for the truth!
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