New
Congress Anti-Environment Attack Starts With ‘No More National Parks’ Bill
The new Republican Congress is off
to a quick start this year and already working hard to push their neo-Con
agenda. And one of their first orders of business is to go on offense with
their anti-environment attack.
As they work like puppets to protect their
fossil-fuel backers, they have made it their mission to halt investments in
renewable energy, destroy protections for clean air and water, and push for
things like fracking and the Keystone Pipeline. But the real root of their
agenda, of course, is to stop and humiliate President Obama.
They have wasted no time in pushing
their anti-environment agenda, while at the same time continuing to work for
their ultimate goal of usurping power from President Obama.
Republican Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
introduced a new bill intended to strip Obama (and any future President) of all
authority to designate things like national parks and monuments. Apparently
they really don’t care that American Presidents have been protecting land and
monuments for nearly 100 years. They just know that they must end this practice
now because….Obama.
Over the last century both
Republican and Democratic Presidents have used the Antiquities Act to protect
important land and historic sites. President Obama alone has used the act 13 times in his presidency, with the most recent being the
protection of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument near Los Angeles.
It seems that the Republican
obsession with damaging the Obama presidency is far more important than
protecting National parks and things like the Grand Canyon or the Statue of
Liberty. And clearly they don’t care that this new bill is completely out of
step with the American people.
According to new polling data 70% of all American voters (and 76% of
Independent voters) strongly approve of President Obama’s efforts to protect
public lands, wildlife refuges, and national monuments for future generations.
The poll also shows that more than two out of three Americans are against the
Republicans’ plan to stop Obama from protecting any more national parks,
monuments, or wilderness areas. But as usual, the GOP is only interested in
pushing their extreme Conservative agenda, regardless of the will of the
people.
