SlowpokeBlog

The New York Times has an excellent if sickening article today about what the Bushites have been quietly doing -- or rather, undoing -- while the media has been distracted by war and terrorism. For example:

the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published a regulation that would forbid the public release of some data relating to unsafe motor vehicles, saying that publicizing the information would cause "substantial competitive harm" to manufacturers.

And this...

In March of 2003, the Mine Safety and Health Administration published a proposed new regulation that would dilute the rules intended to protect coal miners from black-lung disease.

And this...

In May 2003, the Bush administration dropped a proposed rule that would have required hospitals to install facilities to protect workers against tuberculosis. Hospitals and other industry groups had lobbied against the change, saying that it would be costly and that existing regulations would accomplish many of the same aims.

But workers unions and public health officials argued that the number of tuberculosis cases had risen in 20 states and that the same precautions that were to have been put into place for tuberculosis would also have been effective against SARS.

It goes on and on. This election is so clearly a matter of life and death, and these heinous bastards are firmly on the side of Death.

Of course, the massively dangerous deregulation currently underway will register nary a blip in the rest of the media. No, they'd much rather prattle on about governor who's (gasp!) gay, who had -- get this -- an affair. Hoo-wee! News you can use!