Repubs horrified by Bush choice's forbidden love: Mother Earth

Henry Paulson, Bush's nominee for Treasury Secretary, wants the planet to survive.

He's, therefore, about to be eaten alive by the Republicans:

http://vastleft.blogspot.com/2006/06/some-like-it-globally-warmed.html

we all know Jesus hated fish, that's why he picked a fisherman to be the first pope. it was a symbol of hit hatred for all things marine. Think about it, he was so passionate about hating the ocean that he would rather WALK ON WATER than come into contact with the evil, evil, fish.

punishable by death?

Look it up.

I wonder how the fishing is in hell?

From a workingforchange article:

Odds are it was in 1981, when President Reagan's first secretary of the interior, James Watt, told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. "God gave us these things to use. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back," Watt said in public testimony that helped get him fired.

Today's Christian fundamentalist politicians are more politically savvy than Reagan's interior secretary was; you're unlikely to catch them overtly attributing public-policy decisions to private religious views. But their words and actions suggest that many share Watt's beliefs. Like him, many Christian fundamentalists feel that concern for the future of our planet is irrelevant, because it has no future. They believe we are living in the End Time, when the son of God will return, the righteous will enter heaven, and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire. They may also believe, along with millions of other Christian fundamentalists, that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming Apocalypse.

fundies.

Repubs are supported by developers who have big problems with zoning and environmental regulations. The religious right feeds the idea that Jesus won't come back if trees are still here - so they welcome development in their neighborhoods.

Even when this development destroys the beauty of their neighborhoods or clogs their highways when there are 3 Wal-Marts along a 5 mile stretch. It's OK with them, they're one felled tree closer to Jesus.