Sometimes they are scaring me a lot such as today when they squandered the opportunity to use the polar bear ESA listing and EPA regulations to force the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions (since these emissions are clearly the greatest known cause of this species instability).
And sometimes they are proving terrifying as they did on March 6th when this administration agreed to allow the de-listing of grey wolves from the ESA in Montana and Idaho. These states are already planning the outright slaughter of hundreds of wolves, exactly as these states have done every time they are allowed to do so, including just a matter of a couple years ago.
I know, every day there is another reason to celebrate the end of the neo-con nightmare. Having said that. Salazar is another nightmare, and certainly one of Obama's greatest mistakes to date was appointing him Secretay of the Interior. Yet, make no mistake, these are Obama's policies, not Salazars. We must hold our elected officials to a much higher standard.
We have a historic opportunity to utterly change the equations by which we approach environmentalism for generations to come, but not if we allow failed management policies to prevail once again. We must hold the administration to their mandate for the reform of environmental regulations.