{"id":50092,"date":"2015-04-15T18:52:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T00:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/teddy-roosevelt-is-spinning-in-his-grave.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:51:34","slug":"teddy-roosevelt-is-spinning-in-his-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/teddy-roosevelt-is-spinning-in-his-grave.html","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Roosevelt is spinning in his grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate GOP, with just a few hold-outs (and grudging kudos to Corey Gardner, R-CO, for being one of them), voted a budget amendment to support the sell-off of federal lands &#8212; including National Forests &#8212; to states. Only National Parks, Wildernesses and Monuments would be excluded (for now).<\/p>\n<p>Because, y&#39;know, who cares about future generations? We have oil, gas, mineral and lumber interests who need new lands <i>now.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(As <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140\" oid=\"102356721871221463140\">George Wiman<\/a><\/span>, note this in the margins when someone says there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com\/republican-senators-just-voted-to-sell-off-your-nationa-1696862450'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/oCyv2ZWc1JPkghv1z0yea8IT5XSzdpsivyEYlnr0zjK6s11bKxonmJKKaXD_3CSRwVTQuxzON_W4eXZmXZFyekBUL-7z0gjhwjlTkJFabosxFSkFBwGCW5G1UpBpd1En5_RAgD4xmQ=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com\/republican-senators-just-voted-to-sell-off-your-nationa-1696862450'>Republican Senators Just Voted To Sell Off Your National Forests<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOur public lands &mdash; including National Forests, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas &mdash; are arguably our greatest treasure. Well, almost every Republican Senator just voted to sell them to the highest bidder. This is what you can do about it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/RW3kjDjspuv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate GOP, with just a few hold-outs (and grudging kudos to Corey Gardner, R-CO, for being one of them), voted a budget amendment to support the sell-off of federal lands &#8212; including National Forests &#8212; to states. Only National Parks, Wildernesses and Monuments would be excluded (for now). Because, y&#39;know, who cares about future &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/teddy-roosevelt-is-spinning-in-his-grave.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teddy Roosevelt is spinning in his grave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63,358,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133426,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/08\/orrin-hatch-pats-native-americans-on-the-head-take-my-word-for-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":50092,"position":0},"title":"Orrin Hatch pats Native Americans on the head. &quot;Take my word for it.&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-May-17 9:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Poor Native Americans. 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