Bush to America: "Fuck you for not loving me"

A Last Push To Deregulate

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.

I'm really going to miss the little shit when he's gone. Massive Republican de-regulation fails horrifically and makes the lives of citizens worse in almost every case, but still they follow though with more because of some overarching evil scheme I'm just not seeing and connecting the dots on. Less restrictions on coal slurry in water? More strip mining? Less restrictions of fisheries and catch limits? Weakening reporting advance info on shipping containers in ports? Less pollution standards for the energy industry? Boy, these sound really beneficial to America.

None of these are popular among the populace and most of these are dramatically unpopular within each agency being forced to enact them and are unpopular in Congress. But they aren't unpopular to GOP donors and the Bush Administration. Fuck, they're so unpopular right now it would take actual murder to drop their ratings, so why not fuck over the citizens of this country with more pollution and less industry regulation. Just add it to the list of things Barack Obama has to un-fuck. That is if Cheney isn't going through the White House wiring up Semtex and C4 charges so the first few months of an Obama administration will be President Obama sitting or leaning on something and the resulting lengthy bomb squad intervention and disarming of the pressure sensitive charge. That's how you stop change, by wasting it's time with bomb disarming.