Did you ever hear of the snail darter?  This was the fish that caused such a frenzy back in the ’70s. But not many of the remaining 49 states have ever heard of what – the delta smelt. To put this in perspective this little, excuse the language, piss ass fish is responsible for the Golden States parched earth policy. The delta smelt is classified by the environmental goons in California and Washington as a protected  species; we all remember the snail darter, now California has its own snail darter.

The Supreme Court decision set off a fury in Congress as some members sought to rework the act. In his tome “The Fishes of Tennessee”, David Etnier later wrote: “the snail darter had become almost a household word, and in current usage ‘snail darter types’ is approximately synonymous with ‘ultra-liberal environmental activists