Of course.

Obama is the rootin-ist, tootin-ist, most gosh darn anti-business, secular socialist that ever lived or will live.

Everyone Fartbama has ever associated with has been a radical far-far-far-far-left extremist out to destroy All That We As Americans Hold Dear.

But the credential that has sparked the most criticism dates back four decades. In 1969, he cofounded the Natural Resources Defense Council while at Yale Law School, then worked as its attorney from 1970 to 1974. Since 1993, the environmental group has advocated for strong fishery management, among other issues, and has brought lawsuits against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the division of the Commerce Department that oversees fisheries.

So the guy helped found an organization which only started getting involved in fishery management 20 years after he left.

Frank N Stein: Or, just maybe a few legislatures voice their concern that this appointee, based on his past associations, may work against their constituents interest. Because of these concerns, the legislatures have asked the appointee not to mess with a major part of their economy.

But naw, play the victim.

It's more a matter of being punched in the same spot so many times that even someone pretending to punch the same spot is going to make you flinch. We lack principled opposition.

Warning the idiots not to destroy our nice things, then working tirelessly to keep the idiots from destroying our nice things, then watching as the idiots do everything in their power to destroy our nice things out of spite, then finally seeing them destroy our nice things and only being able to say "I told you so" when the idiots suddenly realize they no longer have those nice things.

The liberal's burden.

Destroy WHAT fishing industry?

Cod fishermen who used to fish the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are fishing for crab because there's no cod left.

Lobster and crab fishermen from Nova Scotia to Cape Cod are fishing for sea urchins because the crab are all gone.

Sea urchin fishermen are thinking about how big the Japanese market for jellyfish might be, and whether there is something that can be done with sea grass.

The only American or Canadian waters with a proper, healthy fishery is Alaska, and that's a bit shaky. The rest is fish farms, which are even more destructive of inshore fisheries than offshore fisheries.

Corporations destroyed the fishing industry. The small, family-operated, inshore fishing fleets were wiped out by government subsidies to fish plants and big boats.

Before refrigators, you couldn't get fresh salt water fish unless you lived near the coast. Trains made shipping fish possible if they could be shipped on ice or in tanks but it was still expensive and fish wouldn't keep once you bought them--they pretty much had to be used the same day unless smoked, salted or dried, hence the aversion of many people to fish until recently.

If an environmentalist could figure out how to restore the fish stocks, the fishermen would probably vote Green forever.

But it is easier to destroy an ecology than to build one.

Only God can make a sea.