So says Harry Reid (American fool) and a hand full of other Senators.
Posted by Tina
Harry Reids Land Grab, by Amanda Carpenter Townhall.com
** Its hard to pinpoint the worst part of the public lands legislation bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling up for an under-the-radar Sunday vote tomorrow. The 1200-page, pork-laden, $10 billion proposal locks up millions of acres of energy-rich property by designating it as environmentalist-friendly federal wilderness area where not even as much as a bicycle would be permitted to travel across the land. *** One Republican House staffer put it this way: Reid is going to make it federal land so no one can touch it. Hes locking up the equivalent of ANWR. *** The bill, S.22 “Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009,” would cordon off more than 3 million acres from energy leasing by restricting various areas as federal wilderness or wild and scenic river ways. *** California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.) is requesting $461 million to legally settle a dispute over the San Joaquin River with the environmentalist group Natural Resources Defense Council. The money would be used for a water project that has the minimum goal of restoring 500 salmon to the river. (Thats nearly $1 million per fish!) *** Republican Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) argues its foolish to add acreage to the federal governments responsibility when it cant even properly manage treasured properties like the Statue of Liberty or National Mall appropriately. And, were not exactly suffering from a shortage of wilderness, his spokesman John Hart said in a conversation with Townhall. *** Coburn has drafted 13 amendments to the bill, but Reid is not allowing him to offer a single one of them. One of them is a common-sense measure to just require that the current maintenance backlogs of government property be brought up to date. **
Hope we dont end up like some around the world…reopening nuclear facilities that have been shut down for years or simply shivering in the cold…while we’re waiting for alternatives to come online and meet demand.
The progressive plan is shaping up nicely though…and we”ll be here to tag it as such for all to see.