Alexander Cockburn had an interesting column last week on Clinton's
infamous "Option 9" forest summit "solution". The column ran in
The Oregonian, San Francisco Examiner, and Los Angeles Times.
According to Cockburn, Babbitt and the Clinton administration played
hardball with mainstream enviro groups. Unless the enviros softened
their stance, the administration threatened to support "sufficiency"
legislation in Congress, thus making the Clinton plan immune to
legal challenge. Off the record, one of the authors of Option 9
revealed that, included in the White House hardball strategy, was
a potential Clinton executive order to gut the Endangered Species Act!
These shameful goings-on prompted travelling environmental troubadours
Bill Oliver and Glen Waldeck to pen the following lyrics:
-rick crawford@cs.ucdavis.edu
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LOG OPTION NUMBER NINE
[ sung to the tune of:
"Love Potion Number Nine" ]
They took their summit out to Portland town
You know that city where the stumps abound
They sat down and talked out of both sides of their mind
They said what you need is: Log Option #9
They said they came to put a stop to this
Divisive forestry and politics
They brought the Secret Service and they did a pantomime
They said what you get is: Log Option #9
The think tank was handled like a backing up sink
He said, "I want eight options over which I will think."
But none would be the one to be committed to ink
We held our nose, we closed our eyes ... This really stinks!
We didn't know if we were hearing right
They started kissing every ax in sight
And then they made the moderates fall in close behind
You'll get nothing better than: Log Option #9
[ lyrics (c) 1993 by Bill Oliver & Glen Waldeck ]