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The Politics of Aquadots: No consumer protection here.

9 November, 2007 (17:59) | Bush, children, news, opinion, parenting, women | By: Catherine Morgan

This is from a post at The Silent “I”

All these toy recalls are make my head hurt. You’d think I’ve been sucking on some Aquadots oNordr something. It’s making my head hurt, because once again, George Bush’s cronyism and inability to hire competent people at the highest levels of government is coming back to bite us. This time, it’s not us exactly, it’s our kids.

Nancy Nord is the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an agency that is supposed to be monitoring imported products and “saving lives and keeping families safe.” She’s been offered additional funding by Congress to hire more inspectors (currently, there’s only one). She said, “No thanks.” I first got notice of this from an e-mail from Mom’s Rising a few days ago.

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