Foxes and henhouses (consumer safety edition)

First it was anti-wilderness advocate Gail Norton leading the Interior Department, authoritarian hacks Alberto "Bind, Torture, Kill" Gonzales and John Ashcroft as Attorneys General, Spencer "Abolish the Energy Department" as Secretary of Energy, as well as mine industry officials running mine safety program, and who could forget Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown.

Now, President Bush plans to nominate a longtime enemy of consumer safety laws to head … the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Welcome to the henhouse.

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