2/26/2005
The Hippo and the Moose Continue Their Conversation
The Hippo congratulates the Moose on his observation that the Donkey must widen its base. While the Donkey may not know how best to do this, the Hippo has a possible solution. All of us who would prefer that we do not destroy the planet in the next dozen years should unite under a common banner. The Hippo believes that this banner could be called anything: Donkey, Elephant, or even Moose. The objective is more important than the name.
I understand the Moose is a most enthusiastic supporter of one Teddy Roosevelt. I believe Mr. Roosevelt once said something along these lines:
"We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life."How audacious! When several corporate fat kittens could profit from the venture of paving over the Alaskan coast, how do we dare to balance that against "What nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed?"
If a Howard Dean made such an outlandish statement, one wonders if the Jonah Golberg's of the world would invoke the word "heresy", or perhaps its more modern form: "looney left." One wonders if the Moose would concur with the Jonah Goldbergs, or with the Roosevelts.
The Hippo wonders why the Moose has avoided discussing ANWR? Is he concerned about what the Mooseketeers might say?
file under: anwr.
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