Nasty GOPers don't get that reducing spending on democrat favorites is WAR!!!!---------Susan J. Demas: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz declares new war against America's national parks

Susan J. Demas: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz declares new war against America's national parks | MLive.com:
But sadly, our public lands are under attack -- and by members of Roosevelt's own party.

Last year, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) penned a report blasting Michigan's Isle Royale National Park and others as exemplifying the "more egregious, wasteful or otherwise questionable expenses." 

The sequestration's budget cuts cost the national parks almost $200 million -- which meant closed restrooms and campsites.

And Republicans scapegoated park rangers when they shut down the government last fall, thus closing national parks and monuments like the hallowed World War II memorial in Washington, D.C.

This year, the GOP-controlled House passed a bill gutting the Antiquities Act -- one of Roosevelt's signature achievements -- which paved the way for Olympic National Park, the Grand Canyon and other gems.

Now presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is on the warpath against the national parks. 

This month, he slipped in a little-known amendment to the Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act that would ban the federal government from owning more than 50 percent of any land in a state. The land would be transferred to the state -- or sold "to the highest bidder," as the liberal media watchdog group Think Progress puts it.

That could devastate parks, forests and monuments in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska.