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Posted: Sep 12, 2013

or are associated with ALEC, run by the Koch brothers and other very wealthy people I haven't looked up (mine is), but we do know the Tea Party activities are directed and their campaigns substantially assisted by the Koch brothers, who have been fighting attempts to address environmental problems -- mostly successfully -- for over 30 years now. ALEC literally writes legislation for them to introduce and/or support.

WHY DO WE ALLOW THIS?

Tea Party Congressman Protects US From Manatee Overlords

| Thu Jul. 28, 2011 11:00 AM PDT

At least we have Rep. Rich Nugent (R-Fla.) to protect us from the manatees.

Nugent, a first-term congressman representing Citrus County, has filed an amendment to a Department of the Interior appropriations bill that would bar the agency from protecting the manatees of Kings Bay in Florida. As I reported several weeks ago, local tea party activists, who propelled Nugent to victory last fall, are incensed about proposed protections that would make the entire bay a sanctuary for the for the giant sea mammals. Some have gone so far as to allege that the manatee protections are part of a greater, more insidious plan to instate a One World Order of sustainability.

Nugent's proposed amendment, highlighted by Brad Johnson of Think Progress, joins a long list of other measures Republicans are proposing to block government action on a variety of environmental issues. Some others that he notes:

Scott (R-Ga.): None of the funds for climate change research.
Fahrenthold (R-Texas): None of the funds to interfere with States' efforts to regulate hydraulic fracturing.
Blackburn (R-Tenn.): Prohibits the appropriated agencies from buying compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Blackburn (R-Tenn.): Bar funding for the SunWise Program, an EPA program to teach parents, teachers, and children about what they should do to protect kids from overexposure to the sun.
Fleming (R-La.): Eliminate funding for the Energy Star program.
Flores (R-Texas): None of the funds to enforce section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to prohibit federal purchases of high-carbon fuels.
Lankford (R-Okla.): None of the funds for the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
King (R-Iowa): None of the funds to enforce the Oil Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Program.
Stivers (R-Ohio): None of the funds to regulate stationary source greenhouse gases for two years.

These are in addition to dozens of anti-environmental riders already included in the appropriations bill, like one that would open up the Grand Canyon for uranium mining.

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TP warriors for the government overthrowing, deregulating, - fluorscent light bulb hating,

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conservation loathing, anti- science, education, air quality, energy security, natural resources (except gas and oil, of course), pro- oil spill and greenhouse gases movements our big-spending, constitutionally protected corporate electorate so enthusiastically supports.

This should send those who dream of seeing uranium mining companies stake their claims, plaster their billboards all over the North and South Rim divides, unleash their armies of bulldozers and dump trucks, and carve immense craters in the red Rockies in search of black hole pay dirt flocking to the polls.

One of the biggest lies is that the far right is for - "small" government. Now that they have

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become interested in "economic" issues, they've helped social engineer that giant sucking sound to the roar that's devastated our people these past several years.

And that's on top of their usual commitment to using government to impose their personal, mostly religion-based limits to personal freedoms. For that, they always try to harness the power of government to force their wishes on the majority who have their own ideas about how they wish to live their lives.

Absolutely correct. Plus... "small" gov is just a code word for slashing all - social programsNM

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