Daily Attack The POTUS Post

Here’s a couple whammies on the whitehouse today.

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The LA Times is reporting that the Bush administration denied a request from Gray Davis to clear dead trees from fire-prone So Cal after 6 months of sitting on the request — and only hours before the most recent fires went hog wild. I don’t have the best memory, but isn’t Bush the one who’s been touting clear-cutting as a means of fire prevention?

FEMA spokesman Chad Kolton said the agency denied Davis’ request for an emergency declaration because California was already receiving more than $40 million from the departments of Agriculture and Interior to deal with a bark beetle infestation that has damaged thousands of acres of forest in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Yes, the “we’ve already given them enough money, why should we give them anymore” defense will stand here…

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In other environmental related news, the Washington Post has an article saying that the Bushies are going to allow hunters and circuses in this country greater access to species that are endangered in other countries. I don’t neccesarily oppose this one, but the idea that it

would feed the gigantic U.S. demand for live animals, skins, parts and trophies, and generate profits that would allow poor nations to pay for conservation of the remaining animals and their habitat

smells funny to me and doesn’t seem like a good reason to do it. It’s not like animal fur is really a basic need despite that Jaime Gleicher says “People pay money for clothes, but shouldn’t it be, like, a free necessity, like water, because you need it?”

Posted by etrigan at November 3, 2003 1:53 PM