Politics Dirk Kempthorne is a weasely, incompetent chode
I’m from Idaho and I hate Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne. I hated him when he was Senator Kempthorne. I hated him when he was Mayor Kempthorne. And I am resentfully preparing myself to hate him as Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne:
Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, a pro-development Western Republican, will be President Bush’s chief advocate for more oil and gas drilling from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska’s North Slope if confirmed as the nation’s next interior secretary.
But before I do, a few words:
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
The environment is fucked.
I know it’s been a long time coming, Dirk, you smarmy little weasel. I watched your pink ears perk and beady eyes grow dewy with excitement when you were bounced around as a possible candidate in 2003. Sadly, you had to patiently shit all over Idaho for a few more years before winning the coveted nomination.
Let’s take a look back at what you have accomplished for Idaho’s environment:
During six years in the Senate in the 1990s, Kempthorne scored a “0” on the League of Conservation Voters’ legislative scorecards every year except 1993 [Kempthorne voted with the environmental organization only once in 70 votes.]. Knight Ridder’s Seth Borenstein reported June 23 that in the two years after Kempthorne became governor of Idaho, the state increased toxic emissions by 2 percent—this during a period when the national average declined by 9 percent. The chief of staff for Idaho’s Department of Environmental Quality told Borenstein that environmental inspections were at “a bare-bones minimum” aimed only at staying in compliance with a state court order.
I bagged his groceries once in the Boise Co-op when I was 16, and that night my parents told me they were getting divorced. Coincidence?
[Kempthorne] has cut his state’s environmental budget three times and sharply reduced enforcement of environmental regulations…A court order this year [2003] is forcing the state to increase monitoring and cleansing polluted waterways.With 76 million pounds of toxic releases in 2000, Idaho - population 1.3 million - has more total toxic emissions than California, population 33.9 million.
Every time I have seen Kempthorne “in the flesh”, dogs have been barking at him. Because he stinks of evil.
“I have become so frustrated with EPA that I’m on the verge of inviting the EPA to leave Idaho,” Kempthorne stated in 2001 after butting heads with environmentalists who supported the Coeur d’Alene Basin Superfund cleanup. [Which would remove harmful amounts of with lead, arsenic, zinc, and cadmium from contaminated soil, groundwater, air and the river systems.]
Maybe it was his knack for gross mismanagement that sparked fruitful relationships with kindred spirits in Washington:
One Democrat, Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, said she welcomed the appointment. ”He understands the Northwest and a lot of Interior issues,” she said, adding that Kempthorne had ”stood up to the administration” over nuclear waste cleanup at a federal facility in Idaho.
Maria Cantwell, you stupid wench. Has your brain been replaced with sawdust, and if so, can we stuff your mouth as well?
But the president said that Kempthorne got married on a mountain top, so he must love the environment and everything.