Now We See the Real Shrub

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.