ARREST THEM NOW - A Last Push To Deregulate

[spanone]

The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.

Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.

Once such rules take effect, they typically can be undone only through a laborious new regulatory proceeding, including lengthy periods of public comment, drafting and mandated reanalysis.

"They want these rules to continue to have an impact long after they leave office," said Matthew Madia, a regulatory expert at OMB Watch, a nonprofit group critical of what it calls the Bush administration's penchant for deregulating in areas where industry wants more freedom. He called the coming deluge "a last-minute assault on the public . . . happening on multiple fronts."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004749_pf.html

[Mme. Defarge]

1. How about on November

5th?

[LSparkle]

2. Stealing the silverware on the way out ... MOTHERFUCKERS!

[malaise]

3. I possted this earlier

This is shocking but not surprising.

[spanone]

6. what pisses me off is that they will walk away from their crimes.....

:puke:

[malaise]

8. We'll see

I'm expecting some arrests.

[Zhade]

4. Man, can't you just taste that good old-fashioned bias?

"clear obstacles"

"ease"

"relax"

"lift"

[TomInTib]

5. Their heads should be stuck on the fence finials.

Bastards.

[Poseidan]

7. why does congress put up with Bush's crap?

Regulating commerce is a job for the Legislature, not the Executive. I realize Bush has never read the Constitution, but certainly Congress has?