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Remember George Bush? He is the incumbent President. Bob Schieffer (no link), anchor of CBS' Face the Nation, observed that he "has not appeared at one rally for any Republican candidate in public this year." With 81 days remaining in his administration, CBS called on one of its loneliest outposts, the White House press room. Brushing off the cobwebs, Jim Axelrod told us that this is the deadline for fresh regulations to be submitted for legal vetting. He reported that the White House is "sensitive to charges of an eleventh-hour rush to ram home pro-business, anti-environment regulatory changes." Yet Axelrod's examples fit that definition precisely: easing the ban on dumping mine debris near water; weakening rules for the installation of emission controls; watering down clean water laws for factory farms.
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