{"id":194191,"date":"2008-10-17T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/17\/not-content-with-being-a-lame-duck\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:32:00","slug":"not-content-with-being-a-lame-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/17\/not-content-with-being-a-lame-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Content With Being a Lame Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush is determined to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122403828537735379.html?mod=todays_us_page_one\">push through rule changes to allow dishonest companies to kill and injure ordinary citizens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Bush administration officials, in their last weeks in office, are pushing to rewrite a wide array of federal rules with changes or additions that could block product-safety lawsuits by consumers and states.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has written language aimed at pre-empting product-liability litigation into 50 rules governing everything from motorcycle brakes to pain medicine. The latest changes cap a multiyear effort that could be one of the administration&#8217;s lasting legacies, depending in part on how the underlying principle of pre-emption fares in a case the Supreme Court will hear next month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because they know, just like investment banks, nothing untoward will be done by companies, because the holy market place would punish them for maiming children.<\/p>\n<p>Only <!--BEGIN CLOCK--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"160\" width=\"230\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backwardsbush.com\/includes\/publicClockSmall.php\"><\/iframe><!--END CLOCK--> to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush is determined to push through rule changes to allow dishonest companies to kill and injure ordinary citizens: Bush administration officials, in their last weeks in office, are pushing to rewrite a wide array of federal rules with changes or additions that could block product-safety lawsuits by consumers and states. The administration has written language &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1182,972,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-george-w-bush","category-justice","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194191"}],"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=194191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}