Georgie Dubya Bushie--Environmental Champion!???

With the upcoming changeover in Presidential leadership, I just have to jump on Dubya any chance I can. This week, he has provided us all with yet more fodder.

You see, in his waning days, Little Georgie had the thought that he wanted to be remembered as a champion of the environment. He decided to create three new Marine Sanctuaries in the Pacific Ocean.

They are 1) Waters at the northern end of the Northern Mariana Islands, including the Mariana Trench.
2) Off American Samoa, the Rose Atoll — the world’s smallest coral atoll and one of the most remote.
3) And the central Pacific coral reefs, pinnacles, sea mounts, islands and surrounding waters of Johnston Atoll, Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island. These areas harbor some of the most pristine coral reefs in the world.

Now, while I appreciate the creation of these Sanctuaries, my initial thoughts were that first, these pristine areas had zero energy producing capabilities, so why not do this?; second, that they were so remote that no one will really care one way or the other; and third, that Bush was doing this simply to make (in the last days of his miserable presidency) everyone forget that he just got done with eight years of raping the environment for the financial gain of a few companies (and hence, "friends")while leaving the land irreparably scarred for generations to come.

Hmmmm.......knowing little Georgies eggregious environmental policies, I'm sure he wanted more than anything to do this for the benefit of all Americans, to make their lives better; to help their job security to increase; to provide better education for all the under-educated kids in America; to bring more home-grown jobs BACK to the US; and to put more food in the stomachs of hard-working Americans everywhere.

Wow! I'm so enraptured by this unexpected development that I'll forget about the disaster known as "No Child Left Behind;" I'll forget about the intentional srapping of nearly all environmental protections and endangered species reviews; I'll forget about the fact that he and his Cronies lied to the WORLD about why we were going to war; that he and DICK Cheney authoried torture against prisoners of war; that they both leaked the name of a CIA operative to the media; that he is leaving this country not debt free (as it was well on track to being when he took office--see my earlier blogs) but to now being over $10,000,000,000,000--that's TRILLION! in debt; to NEVER (at least that I've read) being at Andrews AFB when planes carrying the grim cargo of slain military personnel arrive so he might honor the fallen (why? Because he didn't want the press to perceive him as being a President who sent our men and women to war--true!); and the list could go on and on, and on.

Nope, I'm going to remember Georgie and DICK Cheney for being the watchmen of our forests, and rivers, and oceans, and friends to all wild creatures.

Yep...Georgie Dubya Bushie, or Environmental Champion--heee's my heerroh! :0(