Bush's growing list of shame
Heck of a job W.
Looks like Bush will stick it to America until his last minute in office. As the media focuses on President-elect Obama and the transition of power, the Bushies are quietly trying to push through a wide array of last-minute policy changes...a “midnight regulation” express, if you will.
Someone called them regulations, but it's more like deregulations.
Biggest loser -- us, via the environment and our health.
Take a gander, and these are just a few:
EPA Won’t Regulate a Contaminant in Drinking Water
EPA Won’t Regulate a Contaminant in Drinking Water
EPA Lowers Air Quality Standards for Lead
EPA Lets Factory Farms Decide If They Need A Permit to Discharge Animal Waste into Waterways
Labor Rule Limits Employee Access to Medical and Family Leave Time
DOT Finalizes Rule Extending Hours on the Road for Truck Drivers
Rules on Dumping of Mine Debris Eased
EPA Narrows the Definition of Solid Waste
Hands up, all of you who believe Bush is doing more work in these last two months than in the previous eight years!
ProPublica will keep updating this disgraceful list. Below, Politico outlines the serious hurdles to rolling back Bush’s new rules.
"Whether it’s relaxing pollution control standards for power plants or allowing loaded weapons into national parks, the Bush Administration is scrambling to approve or change as many federal rules as it can before it hands off power to President-elect Barack Obama.
This surge of “midnight regulations” presents a thorny question for the next administration: What can it do to void rules it thinks should be undone?
An Obama spokesman told ProPublica that the transition team can’t comment on the new administration’s strategy yet. However, John Podesta, a leading member of the transition team, has said Obama will use his “executive authority without waiting for congressional action” to reverse many of Bush’s policies.
But that authority has its limits.[..]"
If anyone thought Bill Clinton’s eleventh-hour shenanigans were bad, well, I beg to differ, those were little league.
Why are we not surprised at this little "gift" as Bush skips out the White House door? He and his pirate buddies have looted the Treasury, bankrupted the nation, pissed on the Constitution and broken the back of the military -- Mission Accomplished.
Such a long, long time till Inauguration Day.
