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To: rich4eagle who wrote (3666)	4/16/2002 9:51:51 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

getting ready to reinvigorate the SS US style She still has Bush's primary ear. I think she is the one who wanted the Central Asian oil deal. She is an ex-Chevron executive and planned to make millions working with the Taliban. TP

To: rich4eagle who wrote (3666)	4/16/2002 11:38:09 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

The Bush plutocracy The Louisville Courier-Journal April 16, 2002 REMEMBER the name Suboleski. It tells you a lot about what we got when the U.S. Supreme Court handed George W. Bush the key to the White House. The real impact of the Bush presidency will be fully apparent only in coming years. By then, Bush appointees will have had the time to render governmental oversight ineffectual and the federal judiciary indifferent to business negligence. The administration has worked hard to fill the regulatory agencies and the federal bench with those who can be trusted to do the bidding of business and commercial interests. The rest of us are expected to shut up and accept the administration wisdom that Big Oil knows best how to write a national energy policy, that big employers know best how to solve ergonomic problems, and that Big Coal knows best about health, safety and environment at the mines. Make no mistake. This is a radical administration, not content simply with a little pro-business tilt in Washington. As the nomination of Stanley Suboleski to the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission shows, Mr. Bush is giving the hand of business a firm grip on the levers of government. Mr. Suboleski is a top executive of Massey Energy, whose environmental record ranks it near the combines of the great 19th Century robber barons. He has been named to the panel that is supposed to settle disputes between mine operators and government officials. It's as if Rockefeller, Carnegie and Jay Gould had been named to re-write federal anti-trust law. Massey, in case you don't remember, was responsible for a sludge pond breakout that dumped 300 million gallons of black goo into tributaries of the Big Sandy River in Eastern Kentucky, ruining homesteads, polluting water supplies and imposing a hugely expensive, years-long cleanup. And the company's first reaction was to claim that God was responsible. Just last month, hundreds of coal miners rallied to protest the whole ugly environmental record of this company, whose leadership George W. Bush is elevating into the national regulatory hierarchy. This nomination is not the act of a responsible conservative administration, trying to fine tune the mechanisms of government. It's an act of arrogance, by people who want to satisfy their sponsors while proving they can jam absolutely anything down the public's throat and get by with it. Click here to respond to this editorial. courier-journal.com ^^ Back to top