The Republican Trash the Environment bill

OK, the Republicans have passed their budget bill taking $61 billion out of the 2011 budget, over the rest of the year.

They have proven that they are totally in the pockets of big business polluters, and NOT concerned about the health of the nation's environment, or its citizens.

MADNESS.

From this:

GOP defies Obama veto threat as Congress votes to cut $61billion from federal budget

1. "Changes pushed through the House on Friday and Saturday – with voting ending at 4.47am – would shield greenhouse-gas polluters and privately owned colleges from federal regulators, block a plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, and bar the government from shutting down mountaintop mines it believes will cause too much water pollution, siding with business groups over environmental activists and federal regulators in almost every instance."

2. They took several swipes at the year-old health care law, including voting for a ban on federal funding for its implementation. At the behest of anti-abortion lawmakers, they called for an end to federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

(If that passed I would hope that a few Tea Party faithful lose a daughter to septic shock after a back-alley abortion. Don't they want the nation to return to the "good ol' days"?)

3. "The Environmental Protection Agency was singled out by Republicans eager to defend business and industry from numerous agency regulations they say threaten job-creation and the economy. The EPA's budget was slashed by almost one-third, and then its regulatory powers were handcuffed in a series of floor votes.

Proposed federal regulations would be blocked on emission of greenhouse gases, blamed for climate change, and a proposed regulation on mercury emissions from cement kilns would also be stopped. Additionally, the bill also calls for a halt to proposed regulations affecting Internet service providers and privately-owned colleges, victories for the industries that would be affected."

4. "Republicans also prevailed in more parochial issues, with Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., winning a close vote to block the government from removing hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, while Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., won a 230-195 vote to block an EPA plan for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay that would cut pollution from runoff from farms and municipalities throughout the Chesapeake watershed.

And Florida agricultural interests won a vote to block EPA rules issued last year aimed at controlling fertilizer and other pollutants that stoke the spread of algae in the state's waters."

Campaign slogans for the current GOP

Vote Republican, the Party of Eutrophication

Al Gore Bad; AL-G Good! Vote Republican

Vote Republican, if you like Mercury in your Seafood

A Republican Vote is a Vote for Polluted Mountain Waterways

Vote Republican if You Don't Expect Your Harvard-Bound Teenage Daughter to Get Pregnant

Vote Republican and Put an End to the Chesapeake Bay (the most famous estuary in the United States)

Do You Like Mercury in your Salmon, Ma'am? If You Do, Vote Republican

Salmon Runs are a Thing of the Past, Says Republican McClintock; Vote for Him Again!

Vote Republican and Show Your Support for Increased Hurricane Damage!

Vote Republican and Put an End to that Useless Swamp in Florida (the Everglades)

If You Vote Republican, You Won't have to Obey the Laws of Physics

Smell That, America? Take a Deep Breath, that's REPUBLICAN Air!

Republicans: Vote for The Party of Now, and Screw the Health of the Next Generation -- and the World They'll Live On

Vote Republican: We Support Ocean Acidification!