Ken Salazar must resign #oilspill

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Monday May 10, 2010 · 4:05 PM PDT

2010/05/10 · 16:05

Many of us were dismayed when Obama appointed former rancher Ken Salazar to Interior (Rep Raul Grijalva would have been so much better).

It showed a remarkable lack of insight -- the calculus appeared to be that issues relating to our public lands would take a back seat, and that appointing a conservaDem from the West, who wears bolo ties and cowboy hats (even to formal events), would be a good substitute for actual transformative policy.

Indeed, while Salazar talks a good game ("boot on the throat" type comments) about cleaning up the sex-and-lobbying scandal at Minerals Management Service (MMS, the agency in part responsible for vetting oil/gas leases, and part of Interior), his actions are par for the (Bush) course. Delist grey wolfs? Sure. Don't list polar bears? No problem. Need more off shore drilling? Let's open the whole east coast up!

But it's this Gulf oil spill that really brings the problem home. The buck needs to stop somewhere. And the buck should stop with Salazar. He needs to resign. And Obama needs to appoint someone who is not beholden to big oil and who will bring a science-based, conservation-minded approach to Interior.

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Monday December 15, 2008 · 5:33 PM PST

2008/12/15 · 17:33

Today, a great big BOO to Obama for picking rancher Ken Salazar to run the Department of Interior. Salazar has accepted.

Salazar is a completely uninspiring choice, and shows that environmentalists really are going to have to work, work, work. This conservative Democrat, who famously supported Alberto Gonzalez and other various Bush ephemera, has worked against ESA listings for a variety of species in Colorado, has voted for off-shore drilling, has voted for a terrible Energy bill, supported guns in national parks, voted against considering global warming for Army Corps water projects, voted against Farm conservation initiatives, and more.

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Thursday December 11, 2008 · 5:20 PM PST

2008/12/11 · 17:20

The Secretary of Interior nominee is probably up next.

The two leading candidates are MILES apart.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 8:33 PM PST

2008/03/05 · 20:33

Reading DailyKos isn't like interacting in the real world. Indeed, DailyKos, per Demographic Tuesdays, is largely young, well-educated, male, white, and well-off. The rest of the United States, by and large, not so much.

So as Obama supporters wring their hands over the cruel and evil Hillary Clinton and her nefarious "Rovian" tactics (such as airing a commercial that didn't even mention Obama by name), it's worthwhile to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, particularly in terms of who would do better in a general campaign.

lokiloki

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Tuesday February 20, 2007 · 12:26 PM PST

2007/02/20 · 12:26

Measure 37 continues its unrelenting attack on Oregon's agriculture, scenic beauty, forests, and ecosystems.

Measure 37 allows property owners to circumvent any land use laws passed after they purchased their property: for example, claimants can choose, as most of them do, to subdivide their farmland into McMansions. This will have a devastating impact on Oregon's quality of life: increasing sprawl (and traffic and pollution), reducing our ability to innovate agriculturally.

A picture speaks 1000 words. The counties are being WALLOPED by Measure 37 claims. Almost all claims are approved, and, as you can see below, Oregon's landscape is about to undergo a MASSIVE, twisted realignment:

Hood River county:

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Tuesday February 06, 2007 · 3:53 PM PST

2007/02/06 · 15:53

You're not going to believe this. Well, maybe you will.

A year ago, I diaried (and also here) about the Bush administration's attempt to sell over 800,000 acres to pay for schools. Thankfully, with bipartisan opposition, this crazy attempt was foiled.

But, now, it's back:

The Bush administration again proposed selling off hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland to help continue a program that is vital to Oregon county and school budgets.

In his budget released Monday, President Bush proposed raising as much as $800 million by selling nearly 275,000 acres of Forest Service land deemed "isolated or inefficient to manage."

lokiloki

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Thursday February 01, 2007 · 12:22 PM PST

2007/02/01 · 12:22

Measure 37 continues its unrelenting attack on Oregon's agriculture, scenic beauty, forests, and ecosystems.

In Hood River:

The Hood River Valley now has Measure 37 claims on more than one-fifth of its farmland, according to county planners.

Maddox says Hood River could wind up looking like San Jose, California.

Ken Maddox: "These Measure 37 claims have been growing like cancer -- in number and size, and the intensity of development in nearly all cases is very high. We're talking about sub-divisions."

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Sunday January 21, 2007 · 7:57 PM PST

2007/01/21 · 19:57

A bright idea to spread...

We've seen the power of DailyKos, and the "netroots" generally, in their ability to mobilize new activists, raise money, and push issues into the national spotlight. Let's continue this, BUT let's also move BEYOND DAILYKOS to sprinkle progressive ideas across the Internet.

What do I mean?

lokiloki

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Thursday January 11, 2007 · 10:39 PM PST

2007/01/11 · 22:39

The day after the Bush surge speech we learn that the public has NO CONFIDENCE in our commander in chief. The majority of Americans do NOT support a surge.

And Bush's speech was SO crazy. Not only did he say that he would surge more troops into Iraq, but he continued the claim that al Q was fomenting things. And, worse, that Iran and Syria are the culprits for our losses... and, connecting the dots (why else the patriot missiles?), an attack on Iran and Syria might be in the works.

So WHY are Dems being such wimps? Why aren't they aggressively biting back? In fact, even on Daily Kos, the Iraq surge is barely registering... we have stories about Denver, and Groundhog day, and dissecting various lies from the Administration. But, even here, where's the voices of loud opposition?

Sure, we have Ted Kennedy and MoveOn.org and a few other brave (albeit typical) souls proclaiming their attempts to stop the surge.

But where're the sustained chorus of Dem voices denying Bush his crazy attempts?

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Will the "surge" happen?

22 votes Vote Now!

Will the "surge" happen?

Yes

21 votes

1 vote

Silent death: a national park turns into sugar plantation

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Thursday December 14, 2006 · 4:22 PM PST

2006/12/14 · 16:22

Yesterday I diaried about the extinction of the Baiji, one of only four freshwater dolphin species in the world. I noted someone's comment that "it is a true tragedy that the most publicized single moment for an endangered animal, like the Baiji, is the moment it officially disappears."

So, today, I wanted to highlight how such extinctions come to be: by a series of little-noticed habitat losses, factory openings, or minor political decisions. If you do a little digging on the Internet, it's not hard to find roads leading to more imminent extinctions:

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Did you contact The Mehta Group above?

57 votes Vote Now!

Did you contact The Mehta Group above?

Yes, it's time to stop corporate colonization of Africa

46 votes

No, I didn't think that saving the last rainforest in Uganda was worth it! ;) :)

11 votes

The Baiji dolphin is extinct

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Wednesday December 13, 2006 · 3:01 PM PST

2006/12/13 · 15:01

Have you heard of the Baiji, a freshwater dolphin from China? Probably not (unless you read Douglas Adam's Last Chance to See). And as someone noted in the comments section of an NGO's blog desperately trying to alert people to the plight of this amazing mammal, "it is a true tragedy that the most publicized single moment for an endangered animal, like the Baiji, is the moment it officially disappears."

And now the Baiji, one of FOUR freshwater dolphin species in the world, is gone...

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Tuesday November 07, 2006 · 3:33 PM PST

2006/11/07 · 15:33

Second wave of exit polls

Dems up:

VA 52-47

RI 53-46

PA 57-42

OH 57-43

NJ 52-45

MT 53-46

MO 50-48

MD 53-46

GOP up:

TN 51-48

AZ 50-46
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