Hitting the bottom of the "Who to piss off next" list, the White House today announced plans to do away with 1.5 million acres of spotted owl habitat in the Pacific Northwest -- about a quarter of the endangered critter's protected habitat. The long war between the timber industry and environmentalists over old growth forests and the disappearing owl was pretty much settled in the mid-'90s, but Bush Administration officials said it was "high time we stirred up that shit again" because environmentalists and timber workers had been left out of recent White House efforts to enrage voters in the Southwest border states.

Proposal Would Cut Spotted Owl's Habitat [ABC News]