Wednesday, August 10, 2011

To what point do conservatives value environmental regulations?

I think you would be hard-pressed to find a conservative who is in favor of dumping raw sewage or dangerous chemicals into the drinking water, or shooting bald eagles, or emitting copious volumes of noxious smoke into the air. Those are common sense items about which all (or at least almost all) of us can agree. The problem arises when people who have never ventured further into the Great Outdoors than the city park where they attended the Save the Whales rally try to dictate land use regulation to those of us who are actually outdoorsmen. The problem arises when bunny-hugging zealots value owls more than they value the livelihoods of loggers and their families. The problem arises when those same bunny-huggers hinder attempts to bring electricity to the last few hillbillies who don't have it because the dam might harm the fricking snail darter.

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