Bush administration craps out on Hawaiian

[Hilary the Touched]

Island National Monument protection:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26094641

". . . Cleanup efforts have slowed, garbage is still piling up and Bush has cut his budget request by 80 percent.
. . . Ocean currents are still bringing an estimated 57 tons of garbage and discarded fishing gear to the 10 islands and the waters surrounding them each year. Endangered monk seals are still being snared and coral reefs smothered by discarded fishing nets. Albatrosses are still feeding on indigestible plastic and feeding it to their young.

Debris removal, meanwhile, has fallen to 35 tons a year since the islands became a monument."