Wednesday Links

• In a great article on Salon, Gary Kamiya talks about how the Bush II presidency has dealt a devastating blow to both the GOP and conservative ideology, one from which it may not recover for many years.

• Democrats suggested that they may use appropriations legislation to block Bush administration plans to gut the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

• The House approved a two-year extension of a program offering tax credits for construction of low-income housing in areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.

• A bill to help fund new clinics that can offer health care to low-income residents in Montana won approval from a key House committee on Tuesday.

• Burger King said yesterday that it would begin buying eggs and pork from suppliers that did not confine their animals in cages and crates.

• And finally, doesn't it seem like we're always talking about Missouri? Yesterday, a House committee voted to advance a resolution designed to overturn the the voter-approved Stem Cell Initiative. So in Missouri, crazy right-wingers think that what they want is more important than what a majority of its citizens actually voted for.