George Orwell would be jealous of this Bush accomplishment.

[ecoalex]

To eliminate regulations that protect consumers and the environment, Bush and his corporate attorneys created a new law, the "Data Quality Act."
In doublespeak, this means Bush can get rid of regulations by passing a law that creates higher standards for regulations.
Confused? That¹s why it works. Bottom line: Don¹t regulate X because the regulation of X doesn¹t meet the high standards imposed on what qualifies for regulation. Thus the atrazine story.
FIFTH INSTALLMENT 'Data Quality' Law Is Nemesis Of Regulation

By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 16, 2004; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3733-2004Aug15.html?referrer=email

Things were not looking good a few years ago for the makers of atrazine, America's second-leading weedkiller. The company was seeking approval from the Environmental Protection Agency to keep the highly profitable product on the market.

But scientists were finding it was disrupting hormones in wildlife -- in some cases turning frogs into bizarre creatures bearing both male and female sex organs.

Last October, concerns about the herbicide led the European Union to ban atrazine, starting in 2005. Yet that same month, after 10 years of contentious scientific review, the EPA, under the Bush administration, decided to permit ongoing use in the United States with no new restrictions.

Close observers give significant credit to a single sentence that was added to the EPA's final scientific assessment in 2003. Hormone disruption, it read, cannot be considered a "legitimate regulatory endpoint at this time" -- that is, it is not an acceptable reason to restrict a chemical's use. (Thank you Georges Bush and Orwell)

Those words, which effectively rendered moot hundreds of pages of scientific evidence, were adopted by the EPA as a result of a petition filed by a Washington consultant working with atrazine's primary manufacturer, Syngenta Crop Protection.

This decision was made possible by Bush¹s new law, the Data Quality Act, a little-known piece of legislation that, under President Bush's Office of Management and Budget, has become a potent tool for companies seeking to beat back regulation.

[gandalf]

1. Bush is proficient in Double-speak

Paul Krugman noticed it in the NY Times.

The Nation (The Other Lies of George Bush, by David Corn, September 25, 2003) showed in a long article that Bush lies systematically.

But: It seems to pay off. It does not create bigger problems, on the whole, the media still portrays him as an honest and straight man. And that is really 1984-like.

[ecoalex]

2. I didn't think

shrubbie had the smartz to be able to double speak, Ah...he always has a script in front of him.

[gandalf]

3. To be precise, the Bush-Administration

is proficient in double-speak, Bush himself naturally would run into a disaster without a script...