Guarding the henhouse, cont'd

MANIFESTO

These saboteurs can't get out of office soon enough.

Current and former career officials at OSHA say that ... during the Bush administration ... political appointees ordered the withdrawal of dozens of workplace health regulations, slow-rolled others, and altered the reach of its warnings and rules in response to industry pressure.

The result is a legacy of unregulation common to several health-protection agencies under Bush: From 2001 to the end of 2007, OSHA officials issued 86 percent fewer rules or regulations termed economically significant by the Office of Management and Budget than their counterparts did during a similar period in President Bill Clinton's tenure, according to White House lists.

This is just another example of the fact that the Bushies never cared about working people—or most Americans, for that matter. Stories like this probably aren't enough to get the racists in Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, et alia, to vote against Republicans any time soon, but it sure should strengthen the resolve of those who have brains in their heads.