Why stop at Roosevelt? This embarrassment to the Navy SEALs (they are not supposed to be megalomaniacal idiots) shouldn’t cut himself short. Along with Lincoln (always a favorite), there’s Jesus Christ and Rambo and Spider Man. Come on Ryan! You can do better than merely Roosevelt! Be best!
Looks like the acting director, David Bernhardt, former gas and oil lobbyist, will truly be the fox guarding the hen house. Nothing ever gets better.
Hey Zinke, ever hear this Roosevelt quote?
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
“You don’t get to call yourself a follower of Roosevelt if you’re really chiseling away at one of his principal heritages,” said Limerick.
“Assessing the cur Ryan Zinke
Whose policies really were hinkey
No Roosevelt he
More a buttboy like Smee
His rep is now reeking of stinky,” she added.
Roosevelt, huh? Which one? Eleanor?
Maybe, like TR, he and trump can be on a new mount Rushmore. I suggest using the fecal matter strewn around the national parks to construct it.
I don’t blame Zinke a bit. I often compare myself to Salma Hayek.
Ben Carson’s already got the jesus thing, and 45* thinks he’s rambo, so Zinke will have to settle
“It is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird. Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals – not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening.”…"He provided a counter-balance to those who sought to exploit the natural world for personal gain. When Congress fought his efforts to create a national park at the Grand Canyon, Roosevelt used his executive power to protect it as a national monument:
“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”. https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/historyculture/theodore-roosevelt-and-conservation.htm
So yeah, decreasing national monuments in order to mine and extract oil in the middle of a glut is just like TR.
In the sense that Zinke is frequently depicted riding a horse he is similar to Teddy Roosevelt. He’s not charging up any hills, though.
Eleanor Roosevelt was decent and honest, so that comparison wouldn’t work either.
He must mean Al Roosevelt, the guy who cuts grass in my neighborhood. That dude is a 1st rate asshole, so it works for me…
and worked tireless for the benefit of the US, so um no parallel
In his resignation letter, Zinke said he was compelled to [step] down because [of] the political attacks against him…
Shades of the Nixon resignation.
And i remind myself of Antonio Banderas, too! Soy el hombre más sexy del mundo. Te amo, Salma Hayek.
Only thing similar is he’s (a) bully —
One was responsible for creating National Parks and National Monuments and has a National Park named after him. The other slithered out of office as National Parks were being trashed in Trump’s government shutdown.
Yup. They’re just alike, aren’t they?
“And also, John Holmes, for those who know,” Zinke later added. Area hookers, however, disagreed.