Own your own island?

Congressman Richard Pombo of Tracy, California.

In "Roosevelt Island park to be sold," DCist reports that California Representative Richard Pombo has introduced legislation to sell of various parcels of National Park Service land for commercial and residential, including Roosevelt Island in the Potomac River.

I was gonna write about Pombo last week, because of this article in the New York Times, "House Bill Would Limit U.S. Power to Protect Species ," about a bill Rep. Pombo has introduced to gut the Endangered Species Act. Pombo made this blog in April over his efforts to gut the National Historic Preservation Act.

Well at least you can say the guy is consistent.

But you can't say that whichever party is in office, it really doesn't matter. It certainly does in the State of Maryland, where the Republican Governor has pushed forth the Inter-County Connector freeway over transit, made plans to sell off various state lands, often in private deals, and gutted "Smart Growth" initiatives.