ON TO ALASKA

While the Republican Energy Bill seems stalled for the moment in the Senate THE BUSH THE LESSER sell out has turned its rapacious eyes on Alaska and what it can give to its oil industry cronies by fiat…by passing Congress all together. Remember the crafting of Energy Policy that occurred in secret with Vice President Cheney who has refused Congressional requests for documents regarding those secret meetings; the bill emerging totally without consulting a single Democrat or environmental group as a massive give away to the energy industry…now hopefully dead in the Senate. FDR spoke for Democrats; WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THAT HEEDLES SELF INTEREST WAS BAD MORALS, WE KNOW NOW THAT IT IS BAD ECONOMICS. It is noted here parenthetically that in the House our Republican Congressman Frank LoBiondo voted against this travesty of a bill.

Never stymied when it comes to selling out the environment for personal cash donations to Republican candidates the BUSH THE LESSER Interior Department has announced its plans to open 8.8 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope by decree to oil and gas drilling. This will include areas considered environmentally sensitive though none of this land is in the ANWAR wildlife refuge, for that would need Congressional approval.

Environmentalists once again outraged by THE LESSER’S caviler distain for environmental concerns said the plan would jeopardize Arctic tundra, lakes and ponds that provide sanctuary for wildlife and migratory birds. But anyone who has any concern for the environment has to realize that these Republicans (not all Republicans) would sell their first born for money and power. Dante said: NATURE IS THE ART OF GOD; but for Bush & Cheney their only god is money.