God almighty. They could fuck up a one-car parade.

No way! A Republican who makes empty and meaningless promises of interest to people who aren't rich and powerful? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Last time I checked, seals, birds and coral neither vote nor make enormous illegal bundled contributions to McCain.

My favorite part is when they whip out the incompetence dodge yet again: the administration's budget requests were based on a faulty annual debris accumulation estimate.
Are Republicans capable of doing anything at all competently other than redirecting tax revenue to the rich and pandering to religious douchebags?

Are Republicans capable of doing anything at all competently other than redirecting tax revenue to the rich and pandering to religious douchebags?

Winning and/or stealing elections, unfortunately.

Froz, by designating that area a monument, Bush put it off limits to commercial fishing and certain kinds of development. Bush and his crew are NOT responsible for the great Pacific garbage gyre, or the related fact that tons of garbage wash up on the islands and reefs out there. One might wish for different budgetary priorities, of course, but isn`t that a different issue?

Many who had fought to get the islands protected thought making the area a monument would accelerate debris pickup. Instead, after an expensive and aggressive sweep in 2002-2005, (Froz: before designation as a National Monument) the administration decided to downshift to a maintenance level... And the Bush administration slashed the debris cleanup budget from the $2.1 million spent in 2005, requesting only $400,000 a year through 2008

So these fuckheads get all mannner of PR value out of designation of a National Monument, while in fact slashing budget allocations for cleanup? No. That is not "a different issue." That is defective governing.

Froz, I share your disappointment that the Administration isn't doing more to clean up the new Monument's beaches, but the problem of gatbage in the Pacific is actually MUCH bigger, as the photo of the Big Island's beaches show.

Bush's dropping the ball on this one, after creating the Monument, is really just what the doctor ordered in terms of getting greater public and legislative interest in the larger ocean garbage problem. Mark my words.

Government isn't the problem here. Defective government is.

Of course Bush isn't responsible for the trash himself. Blaming him for that would be silly. What did I say that implied that? Senator Landrieu has quite a reputation for charting a path independent of the Democratic party. I'm not sure which colleagues are with her on S3438 but my guess is not many.