The Bush administration vs. the environment (again)

It's no secret that George W. Bush loses no sleep worrying about the environment. He is much more concerned with letting big business do whatever they want without having to comply with any pesky regulations.

But now he has taken it to a new level of absurdity, as the New York Times reported last week that "The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened."

Yep. Don't shoot the messenger, just ignore the message. If you don't open the e-mail, maybe the problem it describes will just go away.

And now the Pentagon is following the lead of its Commander in Chief by ignoring its own environmental issues and refusing to do anything about them. As today's Washington Post reports, "The Defense Department, the nation's biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose 'imminent and substantial' dangers to public health and the environment."

Keep in mind that this nonsense is being funded by our tax dollars. These arrogant, belligerent, irresponsible people -- in the White House and the Pentagon -- have their salaries paid for with our tax dollars. What a gross misuse of our hard-earned money!

Let's hope that the next administration actually cares about what kind of planet we will leave to our children and grandchildren. The lives of our future generations will depend on it. Literally.