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Excellent post, Buck

The Bush admin's record on the domestic economics speaks for itself.

Your environmental concerns do not belong entirely Bush's lap - he inherited his positions from previous Republican administrations (and the powers behind them), which at best have been dragging their feet on issues like (but not limited to) global warming since the Reagan years. Remember Anne Gorsuch-Burford and James Watt, Jr.?

Watt was a proponent of "dominion theology," an authoritarian Christian heresy that advocates man's duty to "subdue" nature. His deep faith in laissez-faire capitalism and apocalyptic Christianity led Secretary Watt to set about dismantling his department and distributing its assets rather than managing them for future generations. During a Senate hearing, he cited the approaching Apocalypse to explain why he was giving away America's sacred places at fire-sale prices: "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns."


Source: "Crimes Against Nature"; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Natural Resources Defense Council

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