Bush Rewarding Business Cronies With Proposed Legislation

[Dr Ron]

White House to Launch Push
For Pro-Business Regulation

By JOHN D. MCKINNON
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
March 9, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is expected to launch a push for business-friendly regulation, possibly including streamlined and more flexible pollution standards, chemical-handling rules, and workers' medical-leave protections.

The stated aim is to improve the overall climate for U.S. manufacturing, a sector hammered by recession and overseas competition during much of President Bush's first term.

But Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, a pro-consumer group that monitors the White House Office of Management and Budget, called the effort a new assault on anticompetitive rules that amounts to rewarding Mr. Bush's political supporters in the business world.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111033197854474215,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us

also at Light Up the Darkness
http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/

[KT2000]

1. Oh - I get it now

reduced pollutions regs, more sick people, fewer with health insurance and they die!!
What lovely people these repugs are.

[Enquiringkitty]

2. Well we all knew he was headed in that direction....

Where is John Hinckley when you need him/