Bad Bush Nominees, Consumer Debt, Working Too Hard and More

by Tula Connell, AFL-CIO (reposted)

Fri, Jun 8, 2007 10:02PM

Friday, June 8, 2007 : Wanted to bring up a few noteworthy items from today and the past couple of days. Yet another bad Bush nominee: Yesterday, we described Bush's nomination of Leslie Southwick to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit as one which brings up Southwick's troubling court decisions, which included ruling against compensating workers for on-the-job injuries.

Today, the Center for American Progress describes a Bush nominee for the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Hans von Spakovsky, who is said to have

“used every opportunity he had over four years in the Justice Department to make it difficult for voters—poor, minority and Democratic—to go to the polls.”

Like many of his other extremist nominees, Bush temporarily placed Spakovsky on the FEC using a recess appointment. Proving again that for an Imperial Presidency, a democratic process of checks and balances is such a bother.

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For more information: http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/06/08/bad-bush...

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