First it was the Green Jihadi’s peferring to create a dust bowl in California’s central valley along with massive unemployment in order to ‘save’ a two inch fish called the Delta Smelt, than no one had ever heard of or cared about before. Now a far left loon senator from the state of Washington, Democrat Maria Cantwell (D-WA), is attempting to block a mining operation in Alaska because it could possibly, maybe, sort of, affect salmon in her state. Senator Cantwell is asking Obama’s overreaching Environmental Protection Agency to over reach once again and block a gold and copper mining operation in a state not her own because of the slight possibility it might upset the fish. Thats right, she is more worried about a stinking fish, one that is not in any way endagered mind, than the thousands jobs this project would create. What was that again about the left being all for the middle class and job creation? I guess that’s only if you don’t upset the fish.
The mine would become the world’s biggest attempted extraction of gold, copper, silver and molybdenum, a mineral that’s used in steel and makes the steel more resistant to heat, among several other uses. Senator Cantwell is asking for the EPA to make use of the Clean Water Act if necessary to block the project. The most curious part of this is that Sen. Cantwell is trying to block the project before the environmental impact study has been conducted or a final report made, the report is due to be issued later this year.
While Sen. Cantwell may or may not have a legitimate issue, again no report has been released by the EPA yet, this episode illustrates the larger point of the left’s real agenda and upside down priorities when it comes to job creation vs. their failed Green Agenda. When the rubber meets the road a democrat will choose a two-inch fish, or a Spotted Owl for that matter, over Americans being gainfully employed and able to feed their families. It seems that the democrats and their fellows of the Green Jihad will not rest until they have reverted the entire western US to it’s pre-settlement conditions.
If those folks wish to live in mud huts and while away their hours composting and singing Joan Baez songs, well, that is certainly their perogative and I say more power to them. I draw the line when they attempt force all of us to live as if the industrial revolution never happened.




