Cheney: Wildlife Conservation Has Been A ‘High Priority’ Of Bush Administration
Cheney: Wildlife Conservation Has Been A ‘High Priority’ Of Bush Administration
Yesterday, Vice President Cheney spoke at the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy in Reno, NV, claiming that the Bush administration has championed wildlife preservation:
As all of you know very well, President Bush made wildlife conservation an early and a high priority of his administration. We’ve carried out that commitment in these eight years — and we’ve been proud to have people like you as partners in the enterprise.
The men and women in this room understand what conservation is all about. It means reverence toward creation, and a commitment to faithful stewardship. It means guarding our spectacular wildlife populations — not just for our own time, but for all time.
In fact, the League of Conservation Voters concludes that the Bush administration “has arguably been the most anti-environmental in our nation’s history.” Some highlights of officials putting special interests over wildlife:
– Rules proposed by the Bush administration would effectively gut the Endangered Species Act, no longer requiring federal agencies to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service to determine whether a project would harm an endangered species.
– Earlier this year, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff used his power to waive federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act, in order to expedite building the U.S.-Mexico border fence.
– In September, a federal judge dealt the Bush administration a setback by ruling that its plan “to allow more than 500 snowmobiles a day into Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks was not in keeping with the National Park Service’s responsibility to protect the parks” and would disturb wildlife.
– Officials have repeatedly refused to acknowledge and protect wildlife threatened by global warming.
– In March 2007, Salon reported that the Bush administration had “granted 57 species endangered status, the action in each case being prompted by a lawsuit. That’s fewer than in any other administration in history.”
– In a 2005 survey, Fish and Wildlife scientists reported that they had been “forced to alter or withhold findings that would have led to greater protections for endangered species.”
Bush had originally been scheduled to speak at the conference but sent Cheney instead at the last minute. “In my place I have sent my favorite hunter,” Bush explained, alluding to Cheney’s 2006 hunting accident.
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With this, the Bush administration announces their fervent desire to be out of office.
They are literally passing the buck to a guy who’s idea of conservation is a well-digested haunch of venison.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:33 pmWow Cheney has come out of his dungeon, it must be getting close to Halloween or another false flag attack on the US or Israel.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:36 pm.
And then Dick Cheney said…
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October 4th, 2008 at 5:37 pmYup, bringing more clipped wing quail to the Armstrong ranch in Texas so that Cheney can shoot more lawyers in the face has a lot to do with wildlife conservation…doesn’t it?
October 4th, 2008 at 5:39 pmI would imagine Cheney’s appearance will mostly be a disdainful revisionism of his term, with lots of paternalistic clucking about environmentalists.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:40 pmCheney didn’t mention if our constitution was on the endangered list did he?
October 4th, 2008 at 5:41 pmCuz nothing says rugged outdoorman/hunter than shooting moose and wolves from a helicopter. Lazy f**ks!
October 4th, 2008 at 5:42 pmThe Big Lie(s)–use them every day in every way!
October 4th, 2008 at 5:42 pmEver check out the walls of Cheney’s Trophy Room where he’s “conserved” the heads of all those animals he “rescued” from those canned hunts he goes on?
Now THERE’S a real environmentalist! (sarcasm mode off).
October 4th, 2008 at 5:43 pmI can only surmise these folks have been living in their hermetically-sealed little bubble world for so long, so isolated from reality, that they believe all they have to do is stand in front of a pretty backdrop such as the one in the picture, mumbling whatever self-serving gibberish the moment calls for, and it becomes true… because they say so.
Talk about pathetic AND scary…
October 4th, 2008 at 5:49 pmThis is the kind of hunting Dick Cheney loves!
The Most Dangerous Game-Cathy O’Brien
Read this and puke!
http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/most_dangerous_game.htm
October 4th, 2008 at 5:49 pmBush had originally been scheduled to speak at the conference but sent Cheney instead at the last minute. “In my place I have sent my favorite hunter,” Bush explained, alluding to Cheney’s 2006 hunting accident.
Do you think people in the Bush Administration, including Cheney himself, are getting a little sick and tired of Bush taking every opportunity he can to put them down in some way? It takes a mighty small man to do that so many times.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:55 pmthey should have booed his ass off stage or at least chanted “liar, liar” until he slunk off in shame.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pmWell. It’s almost true. The statement should be:
“Stopping wildlife conservation has been a high priority”.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:07 pmThe only animals Dick Cheney likes are the dead ones on a plate for lunch or dinner, that can have heavy helpings of salt and ketchup slopped on.
The Bush administration has declared open warfare on everything and everyone that won’t vote for them or the GOP.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:10 pmWildlife? Darth Cheney must have been bragging about the weekly drunken bashes that GDumbya throws for his Cabinet in his personal bunker. Somebody pass the pretzels, please.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:15 pmAh yes, nothing quite says “wildlife conservative” than a real-life Elmer Fudd who shot an old man in the face while aiming at canned quail.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pmIsn’t “wildlife” the Republican term for blacks, gays and other minorities not of Anglo American descent?
October 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pmAnother lie from Palin’s new role model.
The Case of the Winking Moose: an Alaskan Mystery.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:28 pmThe rhetoric of a scoundrel:
As all of you know very well, President Bush INSERT LIE HERE. We’ve carried out that commitment in these eight years — and we’ve been proud to have people like you as partners in the enterprise.
The men and women in this room understand INSERT LIE HERE.
And when this gets replayed by the lying liars in the MSM, the propaganda gets catapulted.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pmCheney further added: “Well, just this morning, Governor Palin gave me a wolf-paw necklace.”
October 4th, 2008 at 6:46 pmIn the 9th inning these unprincipled scumbags are trying revive their legacy….
Too late now asschappers, the world can’t stand you, the nation can’t stand you and even most of your party have abandoned you.
Enjoy dodging rotten eggs and tomatoes during your golden years.
Fuc*ing funny…..
-GSD
October 4th, 2008 at 6:48 pmAssclowns of the Week #71 is up, if anyone’s interested. McCain, as expected, Bogarted two spots, including #1.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:54 pmWell well if it isnt Palins crooked role model. A perfect reminder of what she plans to do as VP
Spend all her time in hiding somewhere Then once in a while come out and “just speak to the American people” ie lie to the American people. Then rush back to her bunker to avoid the “elite media” and the “MSM filters” ie answering questions from journalists. All while exploiting “the flexibility of the office of the VP” ie corrupt the Constitution, abuse power and evade accountability
October 4th, 2008 at 7:11 pmIt’s interesting how much like Bush Palin is. An incurious, parochial person with a gigantic ego, sense of entitlement, a desire for the trappings of power and easily influenced. Palin is a nobody. The people who chose her (and convinced McCain to do so) are also her coaches. The blank slate that she is will be drawn on and molded by these people, just like Bush was. Forget the image….look behind her.
October 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pmI am bracing for the moment when Bush is exposed for some aweful joke or insensitive remark regarding the bailout – His portfolio doing just fine or collapse of the economy being one of his finer moments in office – you get the picture.
It is almost certain to happen. Each time Americans are down. Bush kicks dirt in their faces.
October 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pmCheney’s definition of wildlife must be ancient lawyers.
October 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm“…It means reverence toward creation, and a commitment to faithful stewardship…”
wow! count the code words in that one sentence!
October 4th, 2008 at 8:10 pmIt’s ALWAYS “opposite day” in gop-land.
October 4th, 2008 at 8:18 pmHey? I thought the repugs told us only yellow-belly liberals were into this sort of green thing.
Where are the silly repug names now?
repugs will always made a mockery of things that are good.
October 4th, 2008 at 8:26 pmThese repug aholes want us to talk about anything except plain’s cardboard performance, reading like a liar, talking like an idiot, I’m the star and I don’t know anything but me, me, me and if you want to hear it, I’ll tell you anyways debate. Ask me questions I’m prepared to answer. DUMB DUMB AN airhead nothing. I know she can get more ridiculous, I’m just waiting.
Why would anyone admit their a stanky repug?
I see the white man sent their very best to Alaska just like they sent to Australia and NA. HAHAHA
Alaska please keep her up there. And you don’t have to be part of the US.
October 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pmI’m sure Cheney was himself at the conference.
Still not shooting straight.
http://www.wilytrax.com
October 4th, 2008 at 9:11 pmYou all misunderstand poor little dickie cheney. “Wildlife conservation” has been dur chimpfurher’s top priority, but he doesn’t mean animals or plants.
He is referin’ to his coke snortin’, drinkin’ and druggin’ – why do you think he takes all of those vacations in crawford and what do you think little dickie does in his “undisclosed location.”
They and the criminal cabal that is lootin’ the federal treasury need all of that money to continue to live and protect their “wild lives”.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:13 pmDon’t ya know little dickie cheney was SMASHED when he shot his buddy in the face – livin’ the wild life indeed.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:14 pmAnd chimpy was drunk, livin’ the wild life when he gave this speeh.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pmI’ll remind you that when faced with a friend encouraging Cheney to shoot quail, he shot the friend.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pmThe Democrats under the leadership of Reid and Pelosi have been complicit with the Republican carpetbaggers in mortgaging America’s future to bail out the robber barons of Wall Street without even a few crumbs for the working poor and the unemployed. Unable to extend unemployment benefits! Unable to save peoples’ homes from foreclosure! Unable to extend insurance to uninsured children! Unable to improve food stamps for the hungry! But able to sell our civil rights down the river! It is time to clean out the Democratic party and especially its corrupt leadership which is and has been complicit in the Cheney-Bush criminal conspiracy by failing to carry out their constitutional duties to impeach and try. America it is time for real change!
October 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pmIn his defense, Mr. Bush has done everything within his power to protect the sharks, piranhas, and vultures of the Homo Sapiens species.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:53 pmI agree doc.
And to give these crooks what they want is pathetic. The made up amount, the highest rotten dirty weasels could think of, all at once, with out finding out what caused the problem. Where are the records, where’s transparency, accountability, who’s responsible for what?
This is a early f0ucking repugs’ Christmas present. What’s next?
We gave these filthy rotten crooks our Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Daughters. Hell, they stole our tired, our sick and our physcially and mentally challenged men and women.
repugs=endless occupation for their greedy purposes.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:59 pmIf you haven’t seen it yet, go read the new Rolling Stone cover story:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
As usual, Rolling Stone demostrates what real journalism is all about!
Send Cheney and Palin out hunting together. Dress Cheney as a wolfe, Palin as a Quayle, er, quail and see what happens!
PEACE
October 5th, 2008 at 12:06 amHaving been to both Yellowstone Nat’l and the Grand Teton Nat’l Parks, I can attest to their absolute pristine beauty. You’re just walking by and Elk, Buffalo, or Bear cruise by. Sleeping in your tent, late at night, you hear the Coyotes sing. It’s a song you won’t ever forgot. Beautiful and yearning at the same time. To have this magnificent landscape raped by snowmobiles, or whatever fossil burning machine OK’d by the Bush Admin is abhorrent. Teddy Roosevelt fell in love with Yellowstone, and so will anyone who goes there.
On your way out, take the North East entrance and head home via the Bear Tooth Highway. One of the most magnificent, and also one of the most frightening roads you’ll ever take in your life. You’re above the tree line. You’re driving a road that slowly snakes narrowly down the mountains into the little town below. All the while, you can reach out any window of your car and scoop snow that never melts, but the view is absolutely breathtaking. I damn near wet my pants out of fear, but the beauty kept me dry. It will take about three hours to get down to “town” where you can take a long, pee.
I can’t believe Bush wants to destroy that treasure.
Vote Obama.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:13 amYou have to understand when Cheney says, “high Priority”.
The bottom of his list begins at High Priority. Then higher priority, Highest priority, then Cheney’s pet projects, then national republican security, Conservative private financing, What the President wants, What Rove needs, whats best for Haliburton(Cheney) and at the top of Cheney’s list-How to get another blood pump (surely it isn’t a heart).
Palin has Wildlife in the cross hairs of her scope on the plane. I mean aerial hunting is at the top of her list. OOps I mean Palin has wildlife high on her list…..
October 5th, 2008 at 1:53 amcheney should be punished to the fullest extent of the law for committing treason.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:36 amI love how McCain always complains about that bear study that was commissioned for like 3 million dollars. Apparently it was one of the best studies ever conducted on bears and provided extremely valuable insight.
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Oct 4 Polling Update
Obama 355, McCain 183
October 5th, 2008 at 3:56 amDick Cheneys idea of wildlife conservation is to put some in the fridge to snack on tommorow…
October 5th, 2008 at 6:52 amA couple weeks ago I saw someone defending Scarah’s stance on
October 5th, 2008 at 7:23 amshooting wolves from the air by saying that if they didn’t
the pups would suffer from starvation, so they were being
“humane”. LMAO It reminded me of the south park episode (”the mexican staring frog from southern sri lanka) where jimbo and ned were killing animals so they wouldn’t die by “thinning out their numbers”
Cheney might have been smashed when he was hunting, but I’ll bet Dumbya was smashed when it came time to fly to Reno. Poor old Bush, no one loves him anymore. Afraid to face his once adoring crowd. He’s getting exactly what he deserves, just like O.J. Ah, Justice.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:31 amI am recently retired from 31 years as a wildlife biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service – the principle wildlife conservation agency of the US government. Given that experience I can attest to the very real fact that the Bush Abomination has done zero, zip, zilch, nada for wildlife in the 8 very long years Chimpy has resided illegally in the White House. The Bushies have emasculated environmental laws by and through policy in uncountable cases. Look for instance what has happened to the protections formerly afforded by the Endangered Species Act. Every month it seemed the Bushies in Interior came up with another way to gut the Act and its provisions – and in most cases they succeeded overwhelmingly. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists have been essentially ordered to “partner” with developers to resolve issues rather than apply the law. Currently the mantra is “stature not statute.” In other words, don’t apply the law – impress them with being a wildlife biologist. What a joke.
Check out the frenzied attempts to rape the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for what amounts to enough oil to meet the nation’s gluttonous consumption of petroleum. In early 2001 I sat in an award ceremony in the Interior Building where then Secretary Gale Norton flashed her incisors happily as she talked about her recent return from ANWR which she referred to as “a vast wasteland” and then went on to tell us in the crowd how dedicated she and the Bushies are to conservation. What a joke.
I sincerely hope that on January 21, 2009, both Chimpy and Deadeye are whisked away to The Hague to face a war crimes tribunal. After they have served their time I hope that on their return to the States both are brought up on charges of gross negligence in their responsibilities to protect the earth. The rotten bastards.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:04 amI forgot to include these words after petroleum….”for 2 months.”
October 5th, 2008 at 10:06 amGod, please STFU and go back to your lair and feast on the flesh of children.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:10 amDick must have used a few billion that he embezzled through their Iraq invasion to purchase the worlds most effective personal security guards or he wouldn’t be able show his face in public . . more than once.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:45 amcheney and wildlife…
hey, cheney and nature?
I got one..
October 5th, 2008 at 5:08 pmremember the Klamath river case?
“Leaving No Tracks”
by Jo Becker and Barton Gellman
Wed., June 27, 2007
Season left 10’s of thousands of salmon rotting on the banks of the Klamath river..
Washington Post..
“the angler”
Cheney thinks this is funny. He loves to say outrageous things and then let the world gasp in horror!
Give him what he deserves. Just ignore him.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:44 am