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This story would have brought 300 comments if the inhabitant of the White House had been Slick Willie. Now that the "conservatives" are in charge, there's hardly a whimper when federal malfeasance makes itself known.

I'll repeat what I said on an earlier thread:

After the fires are finally extinguished (by rain, most likely -- not by the thousands of firefighters digging trenches by hand), Congress needs to launch a top-to-bottom inquiry into the Forest Service.

Now that the "conservatives" are in charge, there's hardly a whimper when federal malfeasance makes itself known.

I suspect that most here are so enamoured of the GOP and the few good, constitutional, members in it; that anything constructive that presents from outside the party is ignored. I just heard a blurb on the radio about this turnback along with the story of the firefighters who crashed on their way in.

On this thread we were asked a good question by Carry_Okie with a reference to his excellent BOOK (that I am still trying to fully comprehend!):

So, how do we organize that? Isn't anybody interested?
I think the interest is there; the problem is we all have teaspoons -- 'they' have all the huge bucket-loaders.

Now we find that even when we have the tools and the treasure, the US FS won't let anyone into 'their' turf.

I see damn little difference between the Compassionate Conservatives of the GOP and the Third Way of the DNC; and the abject failure of President Bush to clean out the DUffus operatives that are entrenched in his administration and bureaucracy shows how politically aligned both major parties are.