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" The next time you hear some dope talk about how the fact that our government is completely dysfunctional is somehow the fault of Both Sides, I suggest you ask them which side it is that is planning to turn our public lands into private playgrounds for the extraction industries, as well as converting them into base camps for unthinking paranoia about brown people, and doing so through a bill ostensibly to protect those same public lands.... Other pieces in the package of bills being voted on today include a measure to privatize prime public lands in Alaska&amp;#039;s Tongass National Forest, roll back protections for a wild and scenic river in California, and eliminate protections for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina.  Because why in god&amp;#039;s name would the Cape Hatteras National Seashore need any kind of protection? Keep an eye on this Representative Rob Bishop, the Utah brainiac behind America&amp;#039;s latest border idiocy. He&amp;#039;s worried that our environmental laws empower drug kingpins who not only murder and rape... but litter: &amp;quot;Drug traffickers couldn&amp;#039;t care less about environmental sensitivities... The removal of these criminals from our public lands is a value to the environment as well as the mission of the land managers.&amp;quot; Yeah, Rob, you&amp;#039;re in it for the trees, and not for all that oil and gas, and mining money that pretty much floats your boat these days. Must be why you tell people that the very existence of subsidies to the oil companies is a myth promulgated by the liberal media: BISHOP: They liked to spin it that way. Any change in oil companies was to give them the same tax structure as as every other manufacturing business gets. There is nothing that is that special or new or unique for these oil companies. And there are a lot of people who want to throw that spin out there. It&amp;#039;s spin, it&amp;#039;s crap. Also, too: the federal school lunch program is unconstitutional. It was wrong for congress to invade the role of states. It was wrong to punish kids for these silly reasons. It is wrong to violate federalism. If a community, school, and their PTA. wanted to create the standards themselves, fine. It is wrong for this body to think that every issue has to be decided here in this room and it is wrong for us to forget that the 10th amendment has a purpose.... It is there for a reason and should be respected. And this guy&amp;#039;s carrying the ball on this latest attempt to drill on our lands. Oy. It doesn&amp;#039;t matter how sincerely you make nice to them. It doesn&amp;#039;t matter how many Beltway idiots bleat on the Sunday shows about the blessings of bipartisanship. It doesn&amp;#039;t matter how many centrists nail their own balls to the floor in an attempt to bring &amp;quot;both sides together.&amp;quot; The people behind this nonsense stop only to catch their breath and then it&amp;#039;s on to the next atrocity. They conduct their campaigns on several fronts. The most important thing to remember is that these people absolutely do not stop until they get what they want. If they had any shame, Bob Bishop would be on the back benches, playing with his toes. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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