benhocking's Journal: PATRIOT Act and Environmentalism

Evidently, you're not a PATRIOT if you think we shouldn't be drilling in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). Much like Pombo and Crapo, his arguments would be more persuasive if his past activities weren't so telling. (OK, not really.)

I've always prided myself on not being a party man, either Democrat or Republican. (Or Green, Libertarian, etc.) However, the Republicans seem to be doing their best to make me an anti-party man, at least. I don't really mean that - if a good local Republican demonstrated a true love of the environment and was reasonable on other issues as well, I'd still consider voting for him or her.

I don't understand why more Democrats don't expose these issues. Is it that they think that most Americans are really that callous about the environment? Are most Americans really that callous about the environment? Are most humans that callous about the environment? If so (on any of these), how do we fix it?