"A FOOL HAS NO DELIGHT . . ."

"A FOOL HAS NO DELIGHT IN UNDERSTANDING, BUT IN EXPRESSING HIS OWN HEART."
- Proverbs, 18: 2.

Unfazed by record levels of unpopularity and a stunning rebuke of his failed policies (with Obama's election), President Bush is allowing his administration to make last minute changes to federal rules and regulations. According to the NY Times, among the rules federal agencies have enacted or are rushing to enact include:

* Allowing coal companies to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

* Granting states sweeping authority to charge low-income people higher co-payments for doctor’s visits, hospital care and prescription drugs provided by Medicaid (issued last week by the HHS).

* Health and Human Services is working on another rule to protect health care workers who refuse to perform procedures (like abortions) on religious or moral grounds.

* The Labor Department wants to make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.

It's one thing to promote a legacy that's worked in your final days. It's quite another to promote one that's been an unabashed disaster, like President Bush's.

The man, quite simply, is a tone-deaf fool.

- Mark