well, this seems rather inconsistant with Bush's principals. I know he is an avid outdoors-man and has passed several laws to protect the environment. This is a very one-sided article. If it's such an outrageous and insulting bill to pass... WHY is it being pushed forward. All I see in this article is someone whining about not getting what they want.

@stacy:: I don't know where you got the idea that destroying the environment was against Bush's principles. The reality is that Bush has been a cancer on the environment from his first day in office and he certainly won't be missed when his corrupt butt is out to pasture in January.

Inconsistent with Bush's principals? HAH!

Doesn't surprise me that he
would use the last weeks of
his presidency to cripple
protective laws..

Let the Alaskan national
reserve drilling begin..
after all the necessary
environmental checks are
done from manufactured (ie.
non-independent) data, of
course

I'm sorry Stacy, but Bush and all his allies are nothing but a bunch of anti-environmental fascists. The fact that they have finally been kicked out gives me hope for this nation. The fact that there are still people out there who do not recognize them for what they are-- even after all the harm they have done to everything they have touched-- is chilling.

One thing is certain, scientific conclusions ought not ultimately rest on the direction of popular opinion. There is no "majority rule" in fact and consistent logic. Those are standards not dependent on what one "feels" is true or on what is most popularly held to be true. In science, at least ideally, a thing is either true or it is not quite independent of one's wishes. Scientific conclusions also ought not be dependent on policy or political winds. As so many have observed, the style of thinking characteristic of the U.S. presidential administration of the last eight years has been one that doesn't seem to value authentic fact and consistent logic - science, but rather what is the most politically expedient. All in all, the Bush administration's abysmal disrespect for rational science - a symptom of cultural trends we are hopefully escaping - presents an opportunity for the next administration to build quite a reputation by showing its respect for what is true over what is not, its deep regard for consistent reason opposed to irrationality, and a competence for cleaning up the messes of others while still making profound progress in the development of U.S. culture and of the species in general. We ought to thank the previous administration for the opportunity to illustrate the "right stuff" of better thinking and better action.

Of course, it will be an awful disaster if the new administration perpetuates the cultural disregard for authentic truth and good reasoning. We shall see.

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=763vmCrRBDg

Jeepers Creepers! America is absolutely fuct! What is Bush' deal, im beginning to think he's missing a chromosome. God help us all!
Please, someone, shoot bush and put him on the endangered species list!

I say DOWN with ANY politician who would sell the American people's representation to industry or corporations.

I hope all of you who are anti-Bush are willing to get in the mix and hold our new president to our expectations, otherwise he'll run amuck too.

Yeah Bobby, because destroying the life of a young girl who got pregnant on accident, was raped or was just foolish is much better than making sure a non-aware pre-fetus baby isn't "killed". I tell you Bobby, all those damn big-city people live a God-forsaken life with all their cellphones and that iffernet thing.

Check out this reaaly interesting website(blog): http://wildlifesightingsanddiscoveries.blogspot.com/

Its stuff like this that makes me dislike george bush...

I hope all of you who are anti-Bush are willing to get in the mix and hold our new president to our expectations, otherwise he'll run amuck too...

You think Obama's gonna help with this? If he doesn't care about people killing babies, he's not gonna care about them killing animals....