AN ORPHAN'S PLEA

Pretty good column on Bush and the new overtime regs:

But if you think this is an administration that would set out to do workers a great big favor and pester employers' bottom lines, you ought to check your zip code. It may be time for you to move back to Earth.

Granted, it is a distinctly novel re-election ploy to cut the take-home of millions and expect to profit politically. But then the Bush White House has more than its share, not only of testosterone, but of chutzpah. (As in that term's classic example: the guy who murders his parents and pleads for mercy as an orphan.)

After all, Bush's re-election campaign is increasingly attacking John Kerry's environmental record. This from the administration whose president has compiled the hands-down worst environmental record of any modern president, who in fact has been gunning for Mother Nature as if she were a fleeing felon.

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