Fool me once...

....a fooled man can't be fooled again

Carpetbagger writes:
"You get caught, you're embarrassed, and you take steps to prevent it in the future. Except you don't, and you get caught again. There's some public outrage, you pretend it's no big deal, and you move on. Only to get caught again.

It's as if the Bush administration has...no...shame. Getting busted allowing the coal industry to write pollution regulations is now, with Bush, the norm. The administration is not embarrassed, as it should be, because this is just the way Bush does business.

It also leads me to wonder if Bush administration officials are even needed anymore. Corporate lobbyists are writing the rules and regulations anyway, so why are we paying for a growing federal workforce? It's not for writing regulations -- that's for industry shills to do -- and it's certainly not for enforcing regulations, because Bush is against that, too."