Endangered Species Act may become extinct tomorrow

President Bush and Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne could care less about endangered species. All they care about is giving drilling, mining, raping the earth for profit rights to our most treasured magnificent wilderness to their corporate friends. They received over 250,000 petitions within 32 hours to back off this proposal but NO. They didn't care about the millions of people that protested going to war in the first place either. They are so arrogant as if you didn't already know that. Please read this story at Daily Kos. This alone is reason enough to impeach Bush.

While the Bush administration is certainly in its last throes, their officials still have a significant amount of damage left to inflict on our country.
Furthering the Republicans war against science, the Bush administration is near finalizing a regulatory overhaul of the Endangered Species Act that will fundamentally change the way threatened plants and animals have been protected in the U.S. since December 1973.
We started this; we want to finish this," Tina Kreisher, an Interior Department spokeswoman, said.
"This proposed regulation is another in a continuing stream of proposals to repeal our landmark environmental laws through the back door," she said. "If this proposed regulation had been in place, it would have undermined our ability to protect the bald eagle, the grizzly bear and the gray whale," Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said in August responding to Kempthorne announcement.
"This is a shining example of the brash giveaways to industry we expect to see during the Bush administration's final days, and a new Congress will stand at the ready to use our authority to overturn this and other harmful rules," said Rep. Edward Markey, (D-MA), chairman of the House select committee for energy independence and global warming, to the AP.
By publishing the rule changes this Friday, they will take effect before Bush leaves office. Only Congress could still reverse the rules through the Congressional Review Act. However, if by some change the Bush administration misses Friday's deadline, then President-elect Barack Obama can undo them with with his signature.