Leaving People Behind

President Bush is not satisfied with simply dismantling as many environmental protection as he can.  No, he has to ensure that soon-to-be-President Obama has to fight to protect the environment as well.  Using a practice called "burrowing", Bush is placing his anti-environmental buddies in career service posts, where Obama won't be able to remove them.  Among these transfers are Robert Comer and Matthew McKeown.  Comer is well known for his opposition to the Roadless Rule (a rule in which areas of national land that don't have pre-existing roads are barred from any development) and his sketchy grazing agreements.  McKeown is a favorite of the mining industry - and we all know about those guys (see previous post on Coal River Mountain, West Virginia).  These Bushies, among others, will be placed in senior civil service posts in the Department of the Interior, where they will be able to make trouble for Obama and block his policies.  

Is it just me, or is anyone else really getting annoyed by how impossible it seems that we'll ever be able to get away from Dubya?  He's already irreparably damaged the environment, and now he's going to insure that Obama will have to fight a battle to improve it!  It's like he knows we don't like him, and he's said, "screw it, and screw them - anything to continue being rich!"

Source: Environmental Law Prof. Blog - Bush Administration Land Mines the Interior Department, EPA and Other Environmental Agencies