Obvious tag out shopping or something?

Oh, don't let a little thing like the law stop you, Dirk. Your Cabinet colleagues seem to find a way around it all the time.

Cannot believe people watch/listen to this guy. Such a farking opportunistic panderer. I meant to use the word sycophant in the last sentence, too.

You know who else liked to wipe people off the Earth?

/obvious

Canadian Canuck: You know who else liked to wipe people off the Earth?

/obvious

God?

Isn't this the guy that supported Romney? Beck, not SecInt.

More hilarious Glenn Beck videos please.

Churchill2004: Isn't this the guy that supported Romney? Beck, not SecInt.

Yeah. And it was based purely on Romney's awesome grasp of all matters foreign and domestic, and had nothing to do with them both being Mormon.

I'm pretty sure every politician hates the law getting in the way of their agendas. Yeah, it's a dumb thing for him to say, but not shocking.

chipspastic: Canadian Canuck: You know who else liked to wipe people off the Earth?

/obvious

God?

I was going to say Bush, but then the 'pug regulars here would throw a hissy fit for not recognizing they're the same guy.

If he threatens penguins next, we'll know he's bipolar.

They eat people! For the love of Pete, they're big, angry bears. They eat people. Not that I say we go out and kill all of them, but I mean, it doesn't seem to be a problem here. Senator, I can't take the - I can't take the lies anymore.

Does this guy ever think? What lies?

HumbleGenius

good god that was glorious.

How/Why does Think Progress shrink its youtube windows so small?

HumbleGenius: If he threatens penguins next, we'll know he's bipolar.

*golfclap

HumbleGenius: If he threatens penguins next, we'll know he's bipolar.

FTW!

Lionel Mandrake: Churchill2004: Isn't this the guy that supported Romney? Beck, not SecInt.

Yeah. And it was based purely on Romney's awesome grasp of all matters foreign and domestic, and had nothing to do with them both being Mormon.

Didn't most conservative pundits (Limbaugh et al) support Romney and hate the "too liberal" Mccain?

rburp: Lionel Mandrake: Churchill2004: Isn't this the guy that supported Romney? Beck, not SecInt.

Yeah. And it was based purely on Romney's awesome grasp of all matters foreign and domestic, and had nothing to do with them both being Mormon.

Didn't most conservative pundits (Limbaugh et al) support Romney and hate the "too liberal" Mccain?

Only after the liberals' "worst nightmare" Fred Thompson dropped out did the dittoheads and pundits support Romney.

rburp: Didn't most conservative pundits (Limbaugh et al) support Romney and hate the "too liberal" Mccain?

They rallied around Romney in a last ditch effort to stop McCain, but Beck supported him before Romney (hilariously, for anyone who knew anything about his record) became the "conservative" "anti-McCain".

Screw polar bears. All they ever do is sit around and leach off the government anyway.

He's referring to following bad laws, laws he feels need reformed. Thus, he's essentially saying "the law is dumb and pointless and broken. But unfortunately, I have to follow it, it's my constitutional duty."

would it matter?

What would be the impact on people if there were no more polar bears?? Not a thing.

Don't you people realize you have to take what Glenn says with a grain of salt? He's CONSTANTLY got talking tongue in cheek! You liberals take everything too seriously. Loosen up!

Jesus, if people like that voiced their opinion anywhere in Europe, they'd be laughed at to the extent they'd never be able to show their face in public again.

Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne tells Glenn Beck he'd love to wipe the polars bears off the face of the planet but "unfortunately I have to follow the law".

I often feel the same way about Republicans when I read crap like this. Yeah, I'm a hater. But Republicans have worked hard to earn it.

ParadigmLeftShift: Jesus, if people like that voiced their opinion anywhere in Europe, they'd be laughed at to the extent they'd never be able to show their face in public again.

sounds like a nice friendly sort of place. I'm glad that we didn't keep it after that last little war.

Canadian Canuck: You know who else liked to wipe people off the Earth?

/obvious

Xenu?

glassa: a grain of salt? He's CONSTANTLY got talking tongue in cheek! You liberals take everything too seriously

You are right. If anything a Republicant is good for is a good laugh now and again.

yes because after all when Polar Bears have the highest population they've had in over 40 years and when Eskimos have been overhunting them and we STILL have the highest population in 40 years... yes clearly that meets the standard for endangered

Liberals take things too seriously really? Why are conservatives so serious about peoples sexual habits? To hell with this guy, why doesnt he quit now and go join that lobby firm he has lined up for January. I am so sick of all these republicans, someone needs to run a ton of adds with these kinds of yahoos featured because this is just the same caliber of person that would be in a McCain administration, no different, no more competent, and no better.

Spitzer wannabe: What would be the impact on people if there were no more polar bears?? Not a thing.

yes because humans are the only thing that matters on this planet. we don't need no stinkin environment.

Hobodeluxe: Spitzer wannabe: What would be the impact on people if there were no more polar bears?? Not a thing.

yes because humans are the only thing that matters on this planet. we don't need no stinkin environment.

you went a bit too far, don't ya think???

Glenn Beck - a fat faced farkhead.

reilmb: Liberals take things too seriously really? Why are conservatives so serious about peoples sexual habits?

Because by forcing people to pay attention to others, they might divert attention from the scandals in their own party involving homosexual tendencies. ESPECIALLY considering their own party is very much against it.

I don't care for Glenn Beck either. But the Secretary of the Interior is an idiot.

Lionel Mandrake: ...it was based purely on Romney's awesome grasp of all matters foreign and domestic, and had nothing to do with them both being Mormon.

Glenn Beck's a Mormon? I knew he was an idiot, I just didn't realize he was a special breed of idiot.

HumbleGenius: If he threatens penguins next, we'll know he's bipolar.

this certainly has some win to it.

Yeah, wiping out natural predators has never caused us any problems before. . .

Spitzer wannabe: Hobodeluxe: Spitzer wannabe: What would be the impact on people if there were no more polar bears?? Not a thing.

yes because humans are the only thing that matters on this planet. we don't need no stinkin environment.

you went a bit too far, don't ya think???

When you are talking to idiots sometimes you have to exagerate to get their attention long enough to teach them.

HumbleGenius: If he threatens penguins next, we'll know he's bipolar.

Setting aside the interior secretary's douchebaggery for a moment, am I the only one who thinks "Dirk Kempthorne" would make a great name for an action hero?

Spitzer wannabe: What would be the impact on people if there were no more polar bears?? Not a thing.

Depends where you live. Oh, you mean on white people.

You may wish to research where nearly all pharmaceutical products come from. Or how food chains work. Or what "unsustainable" means.

helix400: He's referring to following bad laws, laws he feels need reformed. Thus, he's essentially saying "the law is dumb and pointless and broken. But unfortunately, I have to follow it, it's my constitutional duty."

Dont use logic it only confuses the masses.

Nice inflammatory headline but this only a ploy by environmentalists to make it so anwar will never be able to be drilled for oil which is just ridiculous. Our lack of finding new oil in this nation and building new oil refineries is the reason for $4/gallon gas, most of it is attributed directly to the environmentalists who wont even let them harm a lizard to build a new refinery.

Its idiotic and keeps us on opecs tit.

So oil companies would charge less for American oil? Right.

chimp_ninja: nearly all pharmaceutical products

Seriously, nearly all pharmaceutical products come from polar bears????

You are still an idiot.

Dubya's_Coke_Dealer: Spitzer wannabe: Hobodeluxe: Spitzer wannabe: What would be the impact on people if there were no more polar bears?? Not a thing.

yes because humans are the only thing that matters on this planet. we don't need no stinkin environment.

you went a bit too far, don't ya think???

When you are talking to idiots sometimes you have to exagerate to get their attention long enough to teach them.

do people find that it works with you????

Is polar bear tasty? The best way to make an animal abundant is to figure a really appetizing way of serving it and getting them to fornicate a lot in a controlled environment.

soy_bomb: Is polar bear tasty? The best way to make an animal abundant is to figure a really appetizing way of serving it and getting them to fornicate a lot in a controlled environment.

go ahead with that idea, but I would recommend that you do not brand them. They get testy.

chimp_ninja: Spitzer wannabe: What would be the impact on people if there were no more polar bears?? Not a thing.

Depends where you live. Oh, you mean on white people.

You may wish to research where nearly all pharmaceutical products come from. Or how food chains work. Or what "unsustainable" means.

Are you pointing out that no useful pharmaceuticals come from polar bears, or that, as apex predators, they are the easiest species to compensate for with human activity?

//Seriously, that point on the food chain is by far the least disruptive if a link is eliminated, humans will just have to club a few more seals occassionally and we'll be fine. If an intermediate species of, say, small fish were to go kaput, we might be in trouble, that's harder to adjust for.

//See also: wolves. There were almost none for a century, and all we had to do to fill their spot was adjust hunters' limits on deer.