If it wasnāt for public lands, there would be NO reason to visit Wyoming.
What next, repeal of child labor laws? Override state seat belt laws? DWI at 2.0? Make auto insurance optional? Reopen workhouses for the poor? Really, why stop with this, just turn us into Somalia already and get it over with.
Deplorable. Barrasso seems like heād be perfectly happy giving the Trump spawn a cut of the action so long as Wyomingās legislature got its greedy hands on some federal land. Do none of the rubes realize that it wonāt be ātheirā land; that all this property will be sold off to the highest bidder, fenced in, and drilled/mined/slashed and burned wholesale?
@canyoncountry Hey, thereās Jackson Hole, AKA the Newport of the Walmart brats and their friends.
I oppose preservation of the antiquated policies proposed by GOP elected officials.
I think the real problem here is you cannot bring in the people standing in the shadows who want nothing less than to rape the national parks system of any mineral wealth they can get their greedy little hands on. This has nothing to do with āThe American Peopleā statement You so often fill your mouth with does it???
Look at this article. Republicans just laid the rules out on how to do it for free.
A story by Maurice Sendak-----------Where The Wild Things Were. ā¦Posthumous, of course.
Yeah, and you could be up in Baggs, sittinā on an idle rig, waitinā on some Texan to come and pull out a string of twisted steelā¦
Awwwww, so Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) is āfed up.ā Too bad. Lots of other Americans are equally or even more fed up with the incessant effort by states, local residents, and cattle, fuel and mining operations to rape and pillage our open lands that are owned by the Federal Government ā read owned by ALL U.S. citizens. The land that Sen. Barraso wants to claim for Wyoming belongs to ME and to EVERYONE ELSE in this country, not the state of Wyoming. For more that one hundred years it has been protected by the Antiquities Act and the right of a succession of Presidents to preserve by designating National Monuments so that any of us who care to can travel to these lands and enjoy some of the last areas of natural wild land on this continent. So Sen Barasso, take you fed up ass back to work and stop worrying about it.
āObamaās use of the law ā¦ has drawn the ire of Republicans in Western states who view the
Presidentās action through the prism of a land grab.ā
Thatās a land grab, all right. Obama took land that belonged to the federal government and he gave it to the federal government. How dare he?
We just got them in Utah within the last five years. Freedom, dontchaknow.
I know you think youāre exaggerating, but I wouldnāt doubt that every single one of those travesties gets proposed by the GOP. Now that there isnāt any adult supervision, weāre going to see some astoundingly stupid legislation. Mind you, it will always be proposed with the utmost sanctimoniousness and furrowing of eyebrows.
Doing away with the Antiquities Act would result in much of our federal land being stripped and/or drilled ā¦ just like most of us under Trump ā¦ vertically and horizontally.
Not sure I agree with this statement. Eliminating the Antiquities Act would prevent the ability of Presidentās to protect and preserve lands and heritage sites. I donāt think that it would have any effect on current National Monuments, created by the Act. Most Presidents (and Trump surely doesnāt seem like āmostā) hate to eliminate laws which give them unbridled discretion.
The Senator from the least populated state in the Union wants to eliminate the very law that provides the means of protection from the minority. Go figureā¦
We in NH have no helmet laws, and seat belts are only mandatory under 18. āLive Free and Die.ā On the upside, every year we get some motorcycle-riding organ donors.
Heās behaving like ISIL and for the same reasons ā ?
Funny, because during the BushCheney Iraq escapades, there was a decided lack of protection of antiquities. Dr. Francis Deblauwe has kept track of this imortant history at http://iwa.univie.ac.at/index.html
his extensive blog, The Iraq War & Archaeology
Who does such destruction benefit, beyond your average for-profit tomb raider? Only those who wish to rewrite history.
āYou know I understand why Teddy Roosevelt had this in place and it seems to me that recently presidents have gone way beyond the original intent,ā Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) told TPM on Thursday. āAt some point you you say āenoughā and Iām at that point right now.ā
I wonder if he feels the same way about the original intent of the electoral college? or the right to bear arms, in the 2nd amendment?
ohhhhh the irony!
I am on a pilgrimage of the National Parks in southern Utah as we all āread and writeā (not speak).
It would be intolerable if land were taken out of Federal protection to be given to the Bundys and the extraction industries.
The Republican candidate (Greg Gianforte) for governor of Montana - which of course voted hugely for Trump - lost his race in large part to, in the past, having filed a lawsuit to restrict the existing easement allowing public access to the stream that went partially through his large ranch tract.
This will be a winning issue for Trump in the West, one that I totally approve of.
For Republicans, there is always the sheep.