What Would Jesus Do With A Mandate?

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Los Angeles Times: "Emboldened by President Bush's victory, the nation's top environmental officials are claiming a broad mandate to refashion the regulation of air and water pollution and wildlife protection in ways that will promote energy production and economic development.

" 'The election was a validation of the philosophy and the agenda,' said Mike Leavitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental protections, he said, must be done 'in a way that maintains the economic competitiveness of the country.'

"Leavitt pointed out that four more years give administration officials an opportunity to mold the environmental agency's professional staffs to more closely reflect their priorities. Leavitt said 35 percent of the EPA's staff would become eligible to retire in the next four years, giving him a chance to remake from the inside out the agency that takes the lead in enforcing air and water pollution and the cleanup of toxic dumps.

"Administration officials spoke of a renewed commitment to long-standing priorities. For example, James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said Bush would not reconsider regulating carbon dioxide emissions -- despite scientific alarm over global warming -- because such a policy would hurt the domestic coal industry and send jobs overseas.

"To the administration's most vocal critics, the agenda amounts to a sweeping overhaul of the nation's 30-year-old system of environmental protections.

"'They are trying to shred the environmental safety net,' said Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. Pope predicted renewed efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

"But Bush administration officials stressed that they are finding new ways to protect and improve the environment while increasing jobs and producing more oil, gas and electricity.

" 'We are identifying the environmental objectives we want to meet and working with the affected sectors to produce the policies that enable us to meet the standards in the context of growing the use of our natural resources and the (creating of) jobs,' Connaughton said.

"Mark Rey, assistant secretary of agriculture who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton said that a priority for the next four years would be fulfilling the president's pledge to restore or improve 3 million acres of wetlands.

"At the same time, the administration's top environmental officials, along with key allies in Congress, have made clear their intentions to push forward with controversial plans to open more of the Rocky Mountain region to gas development. They also have expressed hope that a larger Republican majority in the Senate will allow proponents of energy production to prevail in their long-running battle to open Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

"With their ranks increased in both houses, Republicans in Congress said they would try to relax laws that protect species from going extinct, that compel power plants to reduce smokestack pollutants, and that require the military to abide by air and toxic pollution laws during peacetime training exercises.

"While environmental groups have enjoyed little access or influence during Bush's first four years in office, hunting, fishing and gun-owner organizations fared better.

" Gun owners voted by a 2-to-1 ratio to re-elect Bush, but only after the president addressed their concerns that his policies were endangering wetlands and streams and turning prime big game habitat into massive drilling fields. In December, the president dropped plans to remove Clean Water Act protections for many streams and wetlands, and in October, he shelved a plan to drill in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, which is prized by anglers and hunters for its spectacular scenery and abundant game and fish.

" Jim Range, president of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, an umbrella organization of hunting and fishing groups, said he believes administration officials will continue to respond to sportsmen's interests.

" 'He wants to help us where it's the responsible thing to do, and he and the folks at the White House have gotten that message out to the folks in the agencies,' he said.

"But environmental leaders are bracing for the worst.

" 'I see a lot of damage in the next four years,' Pope said. 'These laws are not self-enforcing. If you take the federal cop off the beat, there will be more watersheds damaged by irresponsible logging, more mercury in our fish, more cases of asthma in our elementary schools, more public lands devastated by oil and gas mining.'"

Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice:
"It was the largest vote total ever for president -- nearly 60 million voters propelled President Bush to a second term -- with a winning margin of 3.5 million votes. And, as predicted, turnout was the key.

"Two important factors contributed to the president's success. Bush increased his margin of support among religious conservatives -- including evangelical Christians, Catholics and Jews -- especially in the critical swing states. And, the electorate understood the importance of the issue that was labeled 'moral values.'

"Nearly one in four voters who went to the polls this year were evangelical Christians. Bush won 79 percent of the more than 26 million evangelical votes. The president picked up an additional 5 percent of the Catholic vote -- up from 47 percent in 2000 to 52 percent of the
31 million Catholic votes this year. And Bush increased his share among Jewish voters from 19 percent to 25 percent.

"Not only did people of faith turn out for the president, the issue of 'moral values' never played such a prominent role as it did in this election.

"In a survey of voters, 'moral values' was the top issue for many -- ranking higher than Iraq, the war on terrorism and even the economy. Of those who put 'moral values' at the top of the list, 80 percent voted for Bush.

"And when it comes to 'moral values,' many religious conservatives had their eyes on the Supreme Court of the United States.

"With the serious illness of Chief Justice William Rehnquist made public just days before the election, religious conservatives clearly understood that this election was about the future with the next president likely to replace one -- and as many as four -- justices at the Supreme Court.

"Voters appreciated Bush's pledge to appoint justices who interpret the Constitution -- not rewrite it.

"The 'moral values' issue also resonated with voters in 11 states who overwhelmingly approved initiatives banning same-sex marriage. That issue brought many religious conservatives to the polls.

"Yes, the war in Iraq is important. So is the economy. But families of faith know that the moral issues facing our nation -- such as protecting the sanctity of human life and the institution of marriage -- are important, too. And they know they have a president who shares their values.

"President Bush clearly has a mandate to move forward in tackling all the tough issues -- including the war on terrorism, Social Security, and the economy -- but also a mandate to continue providing leadership on the moral values that resonate with tens of millions of Americans."

Wayne Madsen, Electronic Privacy Information Center: "For those of us in 'Blue State America,' morality does not entail invading and occupying a foreign country that poses no threat to the United States and killing 100,000 of its people. Our morality is not based on fear-mongering, bigotry, restoration of back-alley abortions and Jim Crow laws, or gratuitous ethnic slurs against particular nations that do not share America's neo-conservative foreign policy goals.

"Our morality and values, based on the political ideals crafted over many years by our Founding Fathers and their successors, include respecting every citizen's right to religious and political belief; protecting the privacy of one's body, bedroom, home and communications; only engaging in warfare when our security is threatened; working diplomatically and judiciously within a community of nations; safe stewardship of our environment; and funding science for the preservation of human health and life longevity.

"While we respect the rights of Christian fundamentalists to their beliefs, we reject any attempt by them to force their will upon us. And we will fight them tooth and nail in the Congress, courthouses and in the court of pubic opinion.

"Bush's 'morality' is not based on any of the ideals of our political forbearers, be they Democrat, Republican, Progressive, Federalist or independent. He has scrapped a system of post-World War II international diplomacy developed by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower.

"Those Democratic leaders who are talking about taking the party further to the right in recognition of a Bush 'mandate' should beware.

"Howard Dean and Al Gore -- still representing the progressive wing of the Democratic Party -- will be watching you very closely. And they have a well-organized Web-based movement ready to move the minute any Democrat starts accommodating 'mandates' and tacking to political starboard.

"There is nothing moral about Bush's policies, nor does he have a mandate. For the 55 million people who voted for Kerry, Bush will not force us to walk in lockstep behind him as he proceeds to stamp his radical imprimatur upon our nation."

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