Rush Limbaugh's Morning Update: Fire!
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court ruled that the Bush administration’s Healthy Forests Initiative violates the National Environmental Policy Act. The Bush Forests Initiative came in response to the wildfires seven years ago, which destroyed over eight million acres. The policy made it easier to clear out underbrush, shrubs, and trees that could ignite or provide fuel for wildfires. Eight years ago, folks! Unless this court ruling is overturned, logging and controlled burns conducted on 1.2 million acres of federal forest will stop.
After the three-judge panel ruled in favor of the Sierra Club, the group’s lawyer said the ruling (New Castrati impression) "will help ensure, Mr. Limbaugh, that vast swaths of our national forests are not logged without environmental reviews, under the guise of forest management or fuel suppression." Naturally, the ruling came from the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals.
We're talking about eight years ago. It was just weeks ago, thousands of California residents were forced to leave their homes when brush fires destroyed property and took lives. Some of those affected complained at the time about the wacko rules that prevented the brush from being cleared. It fueled those fires.
Since most of us don’t live near forests, it’s easy to disregard this latest ruling as just another example of Left Coast idiocy. But if it’s your house up in flames, or your loved ones who die needlessly because of this ruling, you’ll want accountability from these wacko liberals -- and, I guarantee, you will not get it.
Read the Background Material on the Morning Update...
• AP: Appeals Court Blocks Bush Logging Rule
After the three-judge panel ruled in favor of the Sierra Club, the group’s lawyer said the ruling (New Castrati impression) "will help ensure, Mr. Limbaugh, that vast swaths of our national forests are not logged without environmental reviews, under the guise of forest management or fuel suppression." Naturally, the ruling came from the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals.
We're talking about eight years ago. It was just weeks ago, thousands of California residents were forced to leave their homes when brush fires destroyed property and took lives. Some of those affected complained at the time about the wacko rules that prevented the brush from being cleared. It fueled those fires.
Since most of us don’t live near forests, it’s easy to disregard this latest ruling as just another example of Left Coast idiocy. But if it’s your house up in flames, or your loved ones who die needlessly because of this ruling, you’ll want accountability from these wacko liberals -- and, I guarantee, you will not get it.
Read the Background Material on the Morning Update...
• AP: Appeals Court Blocks Bush Logging Rule
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 10:14 AM
2 Comments:
Bless your old statist heart, Rush. Maybe you could show us in the Constitution where the Federal Government is supposed to protect anyone from wild fires. Even better, maybe you can show us where it says the Federal Government may own any real property other than a few buildings in the District of Columbia.
Actually, the fires that Rush is talking about is on federal land. Now, I don't mind having a good debate about the federal government owning forests, but since they do own the land in question, I do believe they should manage them as they see fit.
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