Dick Cheney says Bush has been great for Wildlife

[Robbien]

Source: LA Times


The president was stuck in Washington, making last-minute calls in the effort to win congressional approval for a $700-billion financial rescue plan. So Vice President Dick Cheney was tapped to go to Reno in his place and address the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy.

President Bush created the conference in 2007 via executive order, and charged it with drafting a plan to guide future wildlife conservation efforts to protect "the nation's hunting heritage."

Bush, introducing Cheney via video, explained why he was still in Washington and added, "In my place I have sent my favorite hunter."

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Then Cheney launched into his rendition of why Bush will be remembered as a great conservationist. The vice president said the White House is even now expanding its efforts in conservation.

Over the next five years, even after Bush has left the White House, Cheney said the administration will have put into place tax incentives that could add 7 million acres to the Conservation Reserve and restore 4 million acres of wetlands.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/dick-cheney-say.html

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An environmentalist conference set up by Bush with no environmentalists as members, only hunters and fishers and Chamber of Commerce types and politicians invited.

[angstlessk]

1. I think 'Wildlife' would disagree n/t

[Robbien]

4. Ha, when Cheney talks about opening up new public lands

he doesn't mean adding new lands to the public reserve system. He means opening up public lands and protected wildlife to hunters.

Funny coded talking points.

[smoogatz]

2. Yeah, you know: rats, cockroaches, bedbugs. Wildlife.

You liberals and your picky little "definitions." Plenty of species will totally take off in the next few decades because of Bush's policies.

[uppityperson]

6. homeless= wildlife?

edited to clarify. More people are becoming homeless and jobless, so they are entering the "wildlife" category?

[unkachuck]

21. don't forget the high-flying vultures on wall street....n/t

[NickB79]

3. Bull. Bush has heavily promoted biofuels like corn-based ethanol

The result is that farmers are plowing under land they used to enroll in CRP land-conservation programs by the millions of acres to grow more corn.

But on a larger scale, his complete lack of initiative on the fight against global warming has ensured that thousands of species WILL go extinct in the next few decades.

Those 4 million acres of restored wetlands he's bragging about may be nothing but dustbowls 20 years from now as the rainfall patterns shift.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Great for wildlife??????

leeches, maybe.

[nam78_two]

7. Bush will be remembered as a great conservationist.

My fellow environmentalists, please join me in saying :wtf:?

Uhh no-he will NOT-quite the reverse actually. And that is a REAL understatement at that...

[llmart]

32. Unbelievable....

I can't even wrap my mind around ANYONE ever thinking of Bush being anything but horrible at everything, let alone environmental concerns. This is the idiot who doesn't believe in global warming and the Kyoto treaty. I hope to never hear from any of these evil people again after January 2009.

[Overseas]

8. Oh yeah, Dickie. Those oil boys are known for being big on savin the critters. //nt

[whosinpower]

9. This is coming from the same guy

Who could not tell the difference between a quail and his hunting partner!

[bluesmail]

10. Was Darth at this so-called convention in 'person'?

He's been obviously/mysteriously AWOL. I was kind of hoping he'd end up AWOL. Forever. Yes. AWOL. Forever. AWOL. Forever. Hey why'd you snap me out of a delightful daydream?

[billyoc]

11. Oh, yeah, the rats in the abandoned factories love him.

:eyes:

[pinkpops]

12. I agree - he has fathered several goats down here in Texas

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. He means...for LIVING a Wild Life

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. This country will become a moonscape before these two are done.

WTF is he smoking?

[dipsydoodle]

15. I guess that's in a similar way

to the Pope being great in promoting condom sales.

[Lorien]

16. In exactly the same way he's been great for the economy

:grr:

He's presided over the worst epidemic of extinctions since the age of the dinosaurs, and he's PROUD of being a planet killer!

[mwb970]

17. Didn't bush do something semi-reasonable about the oceans?

I recall reading about some treaty he championed setting aside large ocean areas or something, can't come up with the details though.

[petronius]

30. Yeah - he's done (and is apparently contemplating) some pretty good things:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2644.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90766237
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/25/president-bush-could-earn-a-blue-legacy-with-marine-conservation-plan/

He's nowhere close to being the environmental president, but at least he's not a 100% failure. If he follows through on these protected areas, it would actually be a pretty major achievement, IMO...

[winston61]

18. There is a special place in perdition for these

slimes. Wait a minute, there are slimes that do good. Can't use that. You how it makes me feel as an American when I can't imagine something awful enough to compare these people to? Ashamed that's how I feel, and embarrassed. Call me unpatriotic, but it matters to me that the rest of the world laughs at us and calls us provincial idiots. And the repukes put Palin on the ticket and prove it! God, how I despise the two party system. Look what it has brought us to.

[Paladin]

19. Yeah, Cheney. About Like You've Been Great At Gun Safety....(n/t)

[tanyev]

20. I hope they all wore bright orange vests while Cheney was speaking.

Can't be too careful around him.

[mbee]

22. Well I'd say it's been a wild 8 years, but they sure have

reducted those pesky taxes! No job, No Home = No Taxes - Mission Accomplished!

[silverojo]

23. Hey, Dick: "Go fuck yourself" n/t

[Uben]

24. And then he shot him........

.........in the face, with a shotgun!

[bdamomma]

28. cause he was so

shit faced and tried to cover up the whole event. This man is a criminal.

[davsand]

25. That is high praise from a guy that shoots his hunting buddies.

:puke:

Tell us another fairy tale, Unca Dick!




Laura

[babydollhead]

26. so?

[alfredo]

27. That was Dick's way of saying bush is a lousy shot.

How many of those conserve acres are under water in the middle of the ocean? "Could" is a fudge word.

[daleo]

29. Some predators have done ok under the Bush administration

But only those of the human variety.

[MasonJar]

31. As compared to whom? Dick Cheney?