Pitter Patter of Cutting Out Your Rights

The larger suits to establish Federal pre-emption of consumer protection have brought notice to a smaller, quieter campaign against America that the worst administration ever has been conducting. Your rights are being chipped away in wording by revising regulatory bases, or preambles. The new direction taken at executive branch agencies eliminates grounds for lawsuits against the businesses that endanger Americans.

The campaign against public interest which violates the cretin in chief's oath of office has been carried on at levels anticipated to avoid scrutiny.

The Bush administration has found a way to make it more difficult for consumers to sue companies over faulty products. It's rewriting the rulebook.

Lawsuit limits have been included in 51 rules proposed or adopted since 2005 by bureaucrats governing everything from drugs to cars, from medical devices to food.
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on Haber, the trial lawyers group's CEO, says the administration is engaging in "a brazen end run around Congress, the Constitution and the states in an effort to let negligent corporations off the hook and knowingly put consumers at risk."

Of the 51 regulations, 41 came from the Food and Drug Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Both agencies denied that they have designed rules to undercut lawsuits.

"The preambles to these rules do not seek to pre-empt but instead describe the scope of pre-emption under operation of federal law," said FDA spokesman Rita Chappelle.

The crimes against America are mounting. The occupied White House has made a great deal of progress in endangering the public while protecting its malperforming business class criminals.

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Today the polar bear was declared 'threatened' by the worst administration ever. If that had happened by the deadline it failed to meet, many oil leases would have been obviated of its breeding territory.

Some environmentalists say the delay of a decision was to make it easier for oil companies to finalize $2.7 billion in offshore oil leases in the Chukchi Sea. That area between Alaska and Siberia is home to about 20 percent of the planet's polar bears.

"Had the polar bear been listed prior to January 9, as the law required, that lease sale could not have moved forward without some substantial additional review of the impacts to polar bears," said Kassie Siegel, a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity.

At a Congressional hearing in January, the head of the Fish and Wildlife Service said those leases do not pose a risk to the bears.

"We don't have any substantial records that the oil and gas exploration have created an issue for the polar bear," said Dale Hall, director of Fish and Wildlife.

USGS scientist Steve Amstrup, who has studied polar bears for nearly 30 years, explained why the sea ice can mean life or death for polar bears. Amstrup spoke to CNN in March.

"A lot of people don't understand how polar bears live. They are not terrestrial animals.

The damage that has been done can never be repaired. Some limitation of future damages may be effected - although the executive branch has shown that it will avoid any laws it can, do all the harm it can, and subvert the public protections that it can.