that this is all petty revenge>

Many rules, on climate change for example, might be passed by Bush during his last 60 days and will take Obama years to reverse. There are rules that prevent the gov from being able to regulate toxins in the workplace, make oil and mining possible on the fringes of national parks….terrible terrible stuff.

Bush’s appointees nationwide have generally been “less hospitable” to allowing groups without direct financial interests to intervene in court, said University of Pittsburgh law professor Arthur D. Hellman, an expert on federal appellate courts. That viewpoint skews litigation by giving “less attention to values that are not measured in dollars,” he said.

This is the catch-22 that libertarians, wingnuts, and conservatives hope people never catch onto.

In their world view, all we need to achieve utopia is to deregulate the markets, and unleash the magic of unfettered corporate ingenuity. In order to appear reasonable (and semi-sane) they always assure us that in the case of malfeasance, people can always resort to suing the big monied interests in the courts. In short, corporations will behave if they have the threat of potential legal retribution hanging over their heads.

What wingnuts hope people never figure out about this shell game, is that they have always fully intended to make redress in the courts harder for litigants and advocacy groups who don’t have a lot of money and resources.

Seriously, can Bush just GTFO already, before he screws up our country further? Between this and last minute rule enactments, I worry.

In all fairness, that’s not a bad representation… ^^;