Perhaps you should supplement this post with a link to today's LAT article in which Elaine Chao boasts of her record as the Secretary of Labor during the last eight years. It almost beats Rice's defense of their foreign policies.

Interesting to note: the OSHA headline in the online WP is "OSHA Less Active Under Bush" while the paper version OSHA headline is "Under Bush, OSHA Mired in Inaction".

If a "single day's exposure" to these beryllium alloys could result in "incurable lung disease," it's got to make one wonder what they're doing as the alloys break down in our mouths (or how about just when we breathe the dust from the griding ourselves?).

Perhaps the Beryllium lobby could weigh in on this? I mean, if OSHA doesn't have an opinion.

Indeed, it's hard to count just how many regulatory agencies have, under this president, effectively been run by the business interests it was supposed to be regulating.

Assume all.

So by this lack of safety oversight people will get sick and posibly die just so a few others can profit by it. I defy anyone to argue with me that Bush and his cronies are not criminals that deserve to tried and punished.

So by this lack of safety oversight people will get sick and posibly die just so a few others can profit by it.

Culture of Life, baby!

Assume all. - martin

It's called "small government" conservatism. Eliminate barriers to free enterprise. Assume nothing less than all.

During the course of the next four years, Americans had better come to the realization that the Reagan Revolution wasn't a realignment, it was the beginning of a coup. The goal was to dismantle government as we knew it, one brick at a time, rolling back all progress since the early 20th century -- leaving the rich and powerful to run amok without boundaries and the rest of us without recourse.

Modern conservatives are radical beyond the imagination of the average citizen, who's become a willing victim of conservative propaganda that tells them that liberalism is the enemy. We worry about low-probability attacks from foreigners and wars on holidays and who wears a flag on his or her lapel when all the while the government is being hollowed out from within. Then we wonder why we can't deal with a hurricane, why bridges fall, why we can't afford health care, or educate our kids or keep our jobs.

Supermajorities will agree the country is headed in the wrong direction, but they don't connect that with how they voted or the attitudes they've adopted based on lies and misdirection. And don't forget, there's some in that "wrong direction" crowd who think we haven't gone conservative enough.

Obama's election represents a potential step in halting the backslide of the past 30 years, but unless the voters understand that conservatism is hellbent on destroying America as we've known it, it's a tenuous step that could easily be undone.

Years from now, generations of dental technicians will thank Bush for everything he's done to expose them to beryllium.

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Nothing that Obama has done (not said) so far suggests that he will not allow the business interests to have just an important a say in these matters for the sake of 'reconcilliation' and 'disagreement without being impolite'.

i agree with gregor.

so far obama's silence is DEAFENING.

he is of the squishy center and has never pretended to be a real liberal. many are soon to have buyer's remorse.

Here is Labor Secretary Elaine Chao speaking to Judy Woodruff in an interview in 2004:

JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS
February 6, 2004 - 15:30 ET

WOODRUFF: We are joined now by the Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao...
I want to cite the one economic analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston. He said, these are his words, quote, "very disappointing; we're not getting the jobs to replace the stimulus in the economy which will fade once the first quarter ends." Another economist said, "It's the weakest job-creation rate relative to economic growth on record."

CHAO: Well, the stock market is, after all, the final arbiter. And the stock market was very strong this morning in reaction to the news that we have just received.

-- Wow, that's rich. A Labor Secretary who says Wall Street is the final arbiter of the state of the economy. Four years after she said these words stock prices have tanked and Wall Street is riven with bankruptcies and illegal financial schemes. Workers' 401K's are being canceled as I type.

If Secretary Chao was so eager to bask in Wall Street's reflected light in 2004 is she willing to shoulder her share of the blame for how things have turned out in 2008?

Thanks shantyhag

"If a "single day's exposure" to these beryllium alloys could result in "incurable lung disease," it's got to make one wonder what they're doing as the alloys break down in our mouths (or how about just when we breathe the dust from the griding ourselves?)."

Exactly my question: