{"id":193608,"date":"2008-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/03\/now-we-see-the-real-shrub\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T05:00:00","slug":"now-we-see-the-real-shrub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/03\/now-we-see-the-real-shrub\/","title":{"rendered":"Now We See the Real Shrub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I first came across this when I found out that he had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/02\/washington\/02labor.html?ref=us\">issued an executive order stripping 5000 employees of the BATF<\/a>, some of whom are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">already<\/span> represented by a union, of their collective bargaining rights.<\/p>\n<p>Think Progress has a list of what he&#8217;s pushing through now, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/bush-sprint-finish\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bush\u2019s Backward Sprint To The Finish<\/span><\/a>, and it&#8217;s grim: (quoting directly)<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">\n<blockquote>\n<li>HEALTH CARE<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Cutting medicaid<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing healthcare workers to refuse \u201cmorally objectionable\u201d procedures <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">[meaning allowing anyone to refuse birth control and abortion at any time]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Revising rules for international drug trials <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">[more dead foreign babies]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Narrowing the definition of combat related disability <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">[meaning that if you get injured when your vehicle crashes because the vehicle in front of you gets blown up, it&#8217;s no longer &#8220;combat related]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing states to set premiums and higher co-payments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>ENVIRONMENT<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing mining near the Grand Canyon<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Discounting global warming when assessing species risks<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Weakening the Endangered Species Act<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Eliminating review of fishing regulations<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing more emissions from power plants<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Opening protected land to energy development<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing factory farms to self-regulate waste<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Altering solid waste definition<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing snowmobiles in Yellowstone<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing coal companies to dump dirt and rock into streams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>CIVIL LIBERTIES<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing guns in national parks<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing broader law-enforcement monitoring<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Implementing the REAL ID Act<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>LABOR<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Making it harder to take time off<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Allowing truckers to work 14 hour days<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"> [More dead on the US interstates]<br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Requiring labor unions to file extensive financial reports<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Making it harder to regulate toxic substances on the job<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Stripping collective bargaining rights from federal employees<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Relaxing rules on investment adviser conflicts of interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>ADMINISTRATION<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Moving political appointees to permanent posts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The complete list, with descriptions is at the link.<\/p>\n<p>This is someone would not be satisfied until he destroys everything America really stands for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-george-w-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}