"Republicans Shamelessly Exploit Tragic Fires to Push Anti-Enviro Agenda"

[maggrwaggr]

That's why any of these headlines should read.

I am so fu**ing disgusted with these republican a**holes, and the media that's letting them do it, in fact the media who is
PUSHING their agenda with them.

This reminds me of the other lies: blaming 9/11 on Iraq (so we can invade Iraq), exploiting the deaths of 3,000 people in 9/11 so they can shove their agenda down our fu**ing throats.

These people disgust me. They have NO INTEREST whatsoever in the people who lost their homes, NO INTEREST in the actual FACTS of these fires, all they see is an opportunity to lie to the American people and point their fingers at their enemies so they can keep pushing their CORPORATE WELFARE.

I saw Hardball right before I went to bed last night and Mary Fucking Bono was on talking about this. What a scuzzy thieving lying c**t she is.

Anyone who knows jack s**t about these fires know they have absolutely nothing to do with ANY logging practices. The fires started where there are no trees. 95% of the fires are not TREES.

I just can't believe this can even be an item of discussion anywhere. Anyone who carps on this one bit is just falling dupe to the republican lies. It shouldn't even be worthy of discussion and the media SHOULD be pointing this out accordingly.

Of course they're not.

edited for profanity and excessive capitalization!

[Cat Atomic]

1. Yeah- I live in Souther Cal and when they start talking about

logging vs. environmentalists, I just shake my head. It's mediterranean scrub. Nobody's logging it.

It burns- that just what it does.

[theivoryqueen]

2. This outraged me, too.

I have been following this story for the past few days, and every time I hear a reference to tree "thinning" I want to have a conniption fit. I watched another right wing administration (Reagans) approve "thinning" national forests back in the '80's. We have another term for it now: clear cutting. And it's true, these stumps rarely catch on fire.

[adriennel]

3. other states

The Healthy Forests initiative does not only apply to California, and it is a shame that Republicans are using the recent tragedy in California to justify this nation-wide program.
I'm in Michigan. We have lots of lovely trees and national forests (and-obviously-a lower wildfire risk than CA). Frankly, I don't want Bush or any of his rabid pro-industry, anti-environmentalist policies touching our green spaces.