President Bush, you know the one, is probably most likely going to nominate Michael Baroody*, to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He doesn't exactly have a pro-consumer history.ConsumerAffairs.com writes of Baroody:
"Because of Baroody's Republican ties and history of opposing strong safety regulation, his appointment is unlikely to be popular with the Democratic-controlled Congress."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who herself took Rep. William Jefferson seat on a powerful tax committee last year away from him after he froze much bribe money, has decided to putting him on the Homeland Security panel is a groovy idea.
"It sends a terrible message," King, R-N.Y. "They couldn't trust him to write tax policy, so why should he be given access to our nation's top secrets or making policy for national defense?"
*the chief lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers
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