“Here we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act this year, and the Tea Party wants to tear it limb from limb,” said Brett Hartl, endangered species policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s really a sad testament to how out of touch the Tea Party has become with the American people, and how beholden they are to industry special interests that are more interested in profits than saving wildlife, wild places and a livable future for the next generation.”
Exposing the Big Game
Forget Hunters' Feeble Rationalizations and Trust Your Gut Feelings: Making Sport of Killing Is Not Healthy Human Behavior
Exposing the Big Game 
Probably most of us wolf lovers and wildlife and wildlife habitat and environmentalists are disappointed in the Obama administration but many also seem to forget that it would have been a disaster under McCain-Palin or Romney-Ryan. There is a lot of anti EPA and ESA sentiment in republican ranks, and some democratic too, and especially at state legislative levels. It makes policy/platform sense in that republicans hate federal control and EPA and ESA cut across state lines and often interfere with unfettered state level extraction industry activities, ranching, farming, and hunting. Republicans lean heavily toward unfettered capitalism, state economic control and play to rural control constituencies. They also play to the red flag issues. In 2012 the very conservative Montana legislature introduced over 50 anti-wildlife bills and the democrats introduced around 7 pro wildlife bills. The Montana legislature as well as other far right state legislatures have been very bat sh– crazy, anti-wolf and are the wolf massacre states. Relatively small groups, sportsmen-ranchers-rural constituencies often rule these legislatures. It is the goal of the tea party to work on control at the state levels to in turn promote their agenda. Unfortunately, the Republican Party looks like the so-called tea party at the leadership level and any moderates are being very quiet for fear of retaliation. The Republican Party, call them the G Party, has been playing to this constituency and the red flag issues: God (down our throats), Guns (no controls), Gays (anti), Greed (unfettered capitalism), Genocide (military-industrial complex), and Gynecology (telling women what they can do with their bodies) for so long, decades now, that they have lost control of the party. It is not in the interests of wolf and other predator lovers, ESA and EPA interests, to elect republicans and their trickle up economics and red flag issues right now.