Not Content With Being a Lame Duck

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 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'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.

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.

Only to go.