The White House continues to scramble in its final days to do what it can to make its friends happier and our country more polluted:

Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers' on-the-job exposure to chemicals and toxins.

Where in the *&%$ is this AWOL Congress to put a stop to this madness? I mean who would've imagined that this lame-duck schmuck with horrid poll numbers would still be able to wield the political power he's been able to at this point in his term? The Dems in Congress deserve the likewise abysmal poll numbers they receive, a more flaccid, gutless bunch I can't recall.