Plan to save {right} whales strangling in red tape (CNN) {Cheney guilty}

By Marsha Walton
CNN

BARNSTABLE, Massachusetts (CNN) --
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That measure is a proposal from U.S. government scientists to require commercial ships to slow down to 10 knots inside a 30-mile "bubble" near ports where and when these whales are migrating.
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NOAA is in charge of the scientific aspects of these types of rules, the federal Office of Management and Budget must weigh in on their economic impact. The OMB was supposed to make a decision on the rule last year -- but there is still no indication when it might act on it.
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Whale experts say they are frustrated by the amount of time the proposal has languished without a "yea" or "nay" from the Office of Management and Budget.

Rep. Henry Waxman said the long, drawn-out process within OMB and Vice President Dick Cheney's office is demoralizing career government scientists.

"I think many of the scientists who work for the government are very frustrated, and scientists outside of government are astounded to see the scientific method so abused by this administration. There's been a politicization of science to either ignore the science, rewrite it, or to suppress it," said Waxman, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/05/rightwhales/index.html

And whom do we find doing the strangling? Why, the very source of evil, DDDDDick Cheney himself. Thank {supernatural entity} for Waxman, the Anti-DDDDDick!