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SWING AND SWAY

Regardless of the new budget's spending priorities, Mr. Bush may have found a way to exert greater power by signing an executive order that bolsters White House control over how the government protects public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy, the New York Times reports. In the directive, Mr. Bush said "each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries," the Times says. "The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president's priorities." Those gatekeepers will now oversee rules that in the past were often the work of civil servants and scientific experts, the Times adds. Business groups have welcomed the executive order as a move to ease the regulatory burden, while consumer, labor and environmental groups denounced it as means for the White House to hinder agencies' efforts to safeguard the public........WSJ Morning Report

In Russia this was the aparatchik who sat in every department to ensure party conformity. A political officer. An informant. A Commissar.

The bushies have been learning from 'looking into the soul' of Vlad (the impaler) Putin.

Here is more:

Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation

There is just no way to stop these bastards, is there?

They are immune to the sway of public opinion.