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An excellent article from the Washington Post detailing the sad legacy that will be left to the nation as a result of the conservative Republican push in the area of deregulating the role of the US Government in our economy and lives.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... id=topnews" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

In the last few weeks, we have seen an intentional effort by the apologists of the current administration to begin the process of historical revisionism and the door has not yet hit Bush and his associates in the ass. Several Bush officials have been giving interviews to friendly media persons in the right wing journalistic circles like Fox News and other areas painting a picture of a 21st century Harry Truman. Lest we forget, Truman left office in 1953 as one of the most unpopular presidents of all time. It took several decades and a few generations but today he enjoys a rather good reputation.

We have heard the Republican apologists attack the idea of economic regulation and their claim that Bush actually was a regulator - not a deregulator. Well check this out...

Quote:

Current and former career officials at OSHA say that such sagas were a recurrent feature during the Bush administration, as 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.

The entire article makes excellent reading. The legacy of the Bush administration is one of allowing Big Business to run rampant over the interests of the American people all in the name of kissing the ass of the idealogy fo the Free Market.

The sad thing is that real people pay the price for such misplaced philosophical perversion.

Let's hope Obama can fix this.

I object to the implication that regulations must have testicles in order to be effective.