Approaching the Midnight Hour
The Bush Administration said it would take the high road on last-minute regulations, but with a deadline looming the low road is bumper-to-bumper today. Full Story »
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Posted by Glenn LaBauve - Nov 21, 2008 - 8:52 AM PST
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Glenn LaBauve - Nov 21, 2008 - 8:52 AM PST
The job of the fourth estate is to bring light where shadows cover the facts, this is a light in a canyon of deep shadows complete list http://www.propublica.org/special/midnight-regulations/
If you thought the rape of American values was over, GWB is coming back for seconds. He has no more morals now than he did when I first met him in his father failed senate campaign, at the time I thought he had the morals of a cat in heat, now I have to apologize to cats.
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(The first 2.2 pages cover the regulation jimmying story, the rest is a potpourri of stories.) Process information is provided to assist you in finding other midnight regulation attacks, via links both in the article and here. I would like to have seen more on the Congressional Review Act so perhaps congress could be prodded into action.
ProPublica offers a rundown of 20 rules and regulations that the Bush administration is pushing through the rulemaking process in its waning days, and a guide to ferreting ... More »
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