Now We See the Real Shrub

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So the elections are over, and now, unencumbered by future elections and even the remotest possibility of a political future, we see the real George W. Bush, and he makes the George W. Bush of the past 7 years look like Al Gore.

I first came across this when I found out that he had issued an executive order stripping 5000 employees of the BATF, some of whom are already represented by a union, of their collective bargaining rights.

Think Progress has a list of what he’s pushing through now, titled Bush’s Backward Sprint To The Finish, and it’s grim: (quoting directly)

  • HEALTH CARE
    • – Cutting medicaid
    • – Allowing healthcare workers to refuse “morally objectionable” procedures [meaning allowing anyone to refuse birth control and abortion at any time]
    • – Revising rules for international drug trials [more dead foreign babies]
    • – Narrowing the definition of combat related disability [meaning that if you get injured when your vehicle crashes because the vehicle in front of you gets blown up, it’s no longer “combat related]
    • – Allowing states to set premiums and higher co-payments
  • ENVIRONMENT
    • – Allowing mining near the Grand Canyon
    • – Discounting global warming when assessing species risks
    • – Weakening the Endangered Species Act
    • – Eliminating review of fishing regulations
    • – Allowing more emissions from power plants
    • – Opening protected land to energy development
    • – Allowing factory farms to self-regulate waste
    • – Altering solid waste definition
    • – Allowing snowmobiles in Yellowstone
    • – Allowing coal companies to dump dirt and rock into streams
  • CIVIL LIBERTIES
    • – Allowing guns in national parks
    • – Allowing broader law-enforcement monitoring
    • – Implementing the REAL ID Act
  • LABOR
    • – Making it harder to take time off
    • – Allowing truckers to work 14 hour days [More dead on the US interstates]
    • – Requiring labor unions to file extensive financial reports
    • – Making it harder to regulate toxic substances on the job
    • – Stripping collective bargaining rights from federal employees
    • – Relaxing rules on investment adviser conflicts of interest
  • ADMINISTRATION
    • – Moving political appointees to permanent posts

The complete list, with descriptions is at the link.

This is someone would not be satisfied until he destroys everything America really stands for.

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