Who better to make head of Public Safety than someone who...OPPOSES IT!!

[Roland99]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/06/susan-dudley/

President Bush is expected to nominate Susan Dudley as the next head of an obscure but “super-powerful office that oversees many business regulations.” The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs holds sway over federal regulatory agencies like the EPA and helps set regulatory policy for a wide range of issues, from workplace safety to water quality.

The most recent head, John Graham, has “demonstrated consistent hostility to protections for public health, safety and the environment over his career.” And according to Frank O’Donnell of Clean Air Watch, Dudley “makes John Graham look like Ralph Nader.”

As the director of regulatory studies at the industry-backed Mercatus Center she has worked to oppose vital public health regulation as a “hidden tax” that hinders profits. Some of her targets:

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Not surprisingly, Exxon Mobil has donated $80,000 to Dudley’s think tank.

I've a feeling Grover Norquist has filled his "bathtub"

[MadMaddie]

1. No surprise...John Bolten despises the UN...look what role he

is in....they are systematically destroying any protections for the citizens of this country....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. This is entirely consistent with many of Bush's other appointments.

The prime example being John Bolton, Ambassador to the U.N. -- the anti-diplomat who hates the U.N. Of course he'd appoint a person to be in charge of safety regulations who doesn't think safety ought to be regulated.

[Roland99]

3. Her stance on arsenic? Appears to be: "big deal"

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20010422/ai_n9987271

"You just hear the word 'arsenic,' and you think poison," said Susan Dudley, a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, which is critical of most regulations and supports the Bush decision. And as Pietro Nivola, a regulatory expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, put it, "The question is never posed: Do you want your water bill to go up several hundreds of dollars a year to go from a one-in-500,000 to one- in-a-million chance of cancer?"