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  To Infinity and Beyond

  How many planets would it take to support a world full of John McCains?

  Better start building some battlestar cruisers.On McCain's carbon dioxide bill is about 10 times the average American's posted 1 year, 3 months ago 12 Responses

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  Everglades & the GOP

  Crist's announcement represents a potentially huge move on the Everglades restoration front, but the credit for getting the world's largest restoration project started in the first place belongs to former Gov. Jeb Bush and Pres. Bill Clinton, who signed the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan into law in 2000.

  Unfortunately, the feds have never delivered on their side of the 50/50 matching funds required for the project, leaving the state of Florida to select priority projects to fund by themselves. The state has put about $2 billion into the restoration so far ... can't remember the exact numbers but total project spending for both feds and state is projected to be greater than $10 billion.

  No doubt this announcement is politically timed, but the move to reclaim the sugar cane land south of Lake Okeechobee has been going of for years and will be a huge step in restoring (and filtering) water flow from the lake into the Everglades. Without that flow, and the acreage needed to soak up the nutrient load from a polluted Lake. O., Everglades restoration exists in word only.

  So Crist deserves credit for that. Clearly, Jeb's brother hasn't been any help at all in Glades restoration during the last eight years. This deal should give restoration a huge boost, even if it does happen on the state's dime. But it doesn't exonerate Crist for his offshore drilling flip-flop. Nobody should make those kind of trade-offs.
  On Was Florida guv's big Everglades deal an attempt to keep him in the running for VP? posted 1 year, 5 months ago 5 Responses