July 31, 2007 9:17 AM

Double Trouble

How often do two issues we care so deeply about intersect so perfectly? The two issues I'm talking about are our good old environment and our good old... well not too good... corrupt Vice President.

After orchestratingthe cutting of water flows in Oregon's Klamath River for mainly political reasons, killing tens of thousands of salmon (including some that were under federal protection), Dick Cheney has refused to testify before the House Natural Resources Committee. From Raw Story:

Members of the Bush administration will be called upon Tuesday to explain decisions on environmental policy that were apparently guided by politics -- not science -- during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing.

The hearing won't include the official environmentalists believe to be most responsible for the political meddling -- Vice President Dick Cheney. The vice president was invited to testify at the hearing in the wake of revelations that he reached far down into the federal environmental bureaucracy to influence decision-making, but he did not respond to the invitation.