Pombo the Clown

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"In 2003, thanks to the support of the hard-nosed Republican leader Tom DeLay, he became, at age 42, the Resources Committee chairman and thus the bottleneck through which most legislation involving energy and the environment must pass. Mr. Pombo has more than lived up to Mr. DeLay's expectations, pure in ideology, tough in legislative combat.

In September, he engineered floor approval of a bill that would completely undermine the Endangered Species Act, which is something he has wanted to do since arriving in Washington. And last week, in a tour de force, he engineered committee approval of a budget bill that is ostensibly meant to raise federal revenues but in fact represents a major assault on the public lands.

In its original form Mr. Pombo's bill called for the sale of 15 national parks. He withdrew that idea - a stunt, he says - as well as the notion of selling mineral rights within the parks. He now proposes allowing mining companies to buy lands on which they have staked claims. This practice, known as "patenting," was banned in 1995, and under present rules companies can only lease federal land."

When they're contemplating the fiery pit of hell that will be their eternal residence?

Reclaiming the moral low ground.

I wrote an essay on him and his drug-addict worldview:

www.brainshrub.com/heroin-fix

Then, perhaps, I might give way on eliminating the ES Act, at least for a while. Sacrifice the few to save the many.

Rhetorical question: Where in God's name do all these horrible people come from?