The Bush administration continue to dictate ...

As its clock runs out for the Bush administration, President George Walker Bush and his team under the leadership of Richard Bruce Cheney continue to dictate their ideological ideas onto the American people and the world.

As one of their last acts the Bush administration allowed the Bureau of Land Management to announce a last-minute plan to lease huge swaths of majestic wilderness in eastern Utah for oil and gas extraction. They cynically chose November 4, one month before President-elect Obama takes office, hoping that the public would not notice this shady deal.

The plan is to open-up drilling all over the Rockies and Alaska, to green-light oil shale leasing, and to weaken the Endangered Species Act. Though sad, it's no surprise, coming as it does from the same crowd that designed a misguided national energy policy in secret meetings with the oil, gas and coal industries.

Even in as the clock winds down to the last 54 days before the new President Barack Obama takes office, the Bush administration continues secretly to undermine Environmental Protections Laws so that they can secure the profit of the oil companies and their own interests.

Don’t forget that Richard Bruce Cheney was once the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton, a Fortune 500 company and market leader in the energy sector. Cheney's net worth, estimated to be between $30 million and $100 million.

George W. Bush served on the board of directors for Harken. Harken Energy Corporation is an American oil and gas company, headquartered in Southlake, Texas. Bush while a director of the company, sold stock in Harken shortly before the company announced substantial losses.

Now looking at this history, one should not wonder about George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s intentions. However, we should wonder about the environmental impact this has on one of America's few remaining wilderness treasures.