Sorry Excuse for a President

It's a good thing Bush isn't any smarter than he is. A person with any degree of intelligence would have a hard time living with the fact that their bad judgment, ignorance and arrogance have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Now he'll continue to add to that legacy after he leaves office. From the New York Times today:

WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.

The rule, which has strong support from business groups, says that in assessing the risk from a particular substance, federal agencies should gather and analyze “industry-by-industry evidence” of employees’ exposure to it during their working lives. The proposal would, in many cases, add a step to the lengthy process of developing standards to protect workers’ health.

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