That picture of GW fishing is sickening, like seeing a photo of charlie manson doing charity work for children.

Let me tell you guys, Bush is no friend of the sportsman. If you are voting for Bush that's your choice but please don't try to think he's good for fish and wildlife. He will of course "play along" like any good politician to maintain votes but his actions tell a far different story. Here is some info I pasted from the Wildlife Action Fund. Keep in mind this information is generated by the best in the field, a team of fish and wildlife doctorates, this is what they do for a living. Pay particular attention to numbers 5 and 6 below, then decide if GW is a good thing for our environment and the future we will be leaving for those that come after us.


1. Bush packed his administration with former industry lobbyists unfriendly to environmental issues. He made Gale Norton his Secretary of the Interior, despite her having argued before the Supreme Court that the Endangered Species Act is unconstitutional, and tapped J. Steven Griles as her deputy, though he continues to earn money from his past position as a lobbyist for the oil and gas industries.

2. The Bush administration has proposed drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and is considering weakening laws against new oil and gas drilling off the coasts of Florida and California – putting wildlife populations at risk in all three regions. More>>
One of President Bush’s first acts was to revoke protections for forests by voiding the Roadless Area Conservation Rule for the Tongass and Chugach National Forests in Alaska. Now his administration proposes opening more than 58 million more acres of protected forests to road-building and logging projects by allowing governors in the lower 48 states to opt out of protecting wild forests.

3. President Bush has reneged on his campaign promise of four years ago to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which provides matching grants to states and local governments for the conservation of public outdoor recreation areas. His budgets over the past three years have failed to fund the LWCF at its authorized level of $900 million, averaging less than half that, and leaving key conservation programs underfunded.

4. Through both direct regulatory action and actions through the court system, the Bush administration has worked to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which ensures that the federal government exercises care when making decions that impact the natural environment. Bush has repeatedly called for exemptions to NEPA for Department of Defense Activities, highway building, and energy drilling leases on public lands.

5. The Bush administration proposed a plan to eliminate Clean Water Act protections for more than 20 million acres of America’s wetlands, abandoning the plan only under considerable pressure from conservation groups, hunters and anglers, and a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Still on the table is a White House “policy guidance” that would dump Clean Water Act prohibitions on pollution in so-called “isolated” streams, ponds, and wetlands.

6. Courts have found the Bush administration in violation of the Endangered Species Act more than 60 times in just three years in office. Furthermore, the administration has listed only 25 species under the Act in three years, every single one of them the result of a court order. (The first Bush administration listed an average of 58 species per year, and the Clinton administration averaged 65 additions per year.)

7/ President Bush has proposed allowing electric and coal companies to emit nearly seven times more mercury than is allowed under our current law, placing hundreds of thousands of children and pregnant women at risk for damage to developing brains and nervous systems. Four years ago, the EPA formally designated mercury as a hazardous pollutant, and already one of every three U.S. lakes and one in ever four U.S. rivers are so contaminated that the fish in them should not be eaten. Still, the Bush administration halted enforcement of the EPA's regulations and proposed its own more relaxed rules, at the request of big industrial corporations.

For anyone interested in seeing this link go to:

http://www.defendersactionfund.org/bushRecord.jsp#2

RM