http://factonista.org/2009/01/06/thank-you-mr-bush-no-really/ Science. Humanism. Atheism. Politics. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:46:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://factonista.org/2009/01/06/thank-you-mr-bush-no-really/comment-page-1/#comment-8542 Joe Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:30:03 +0000 http://theedger.org/?p=2602#comment-8542 Maybe I'm just cynical, ok, yeah I totally am, but this strikes me as something of a poison pill for Obama. The republicans are on the way out, so they won't have to deal with the cost of active protection and the inability to exploit this rather large area. Given Bush's track record, and the current economy, I'd say this is a clever way of forcing the economics of environmentalism right up the Democrats collective behinds. Maybe I’m just cynical, ok, yeah I totally am, but this strikes me as something of a poison pill for Obama. The republicans are on the way out, so they won’t have to deal with the cost of active protection and the inability to exploit this rather large area. Given Bush’s track record, and the current economy, I’d say this is a clever way of forcing the economics of environmentalism right up the Democrats collective behinds.

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