Comments on: White House nominates two to CPSC

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:53:50 +0000

If a politician runs for a position on the Railroad Commission and then a railroad station is situated in his home town, the appearance of a conflict of interest is clear. Ralph Nader and his groups are a different matter. They caused vast waste with airbags, but they do not work for air bag companies. The same with the breast implants. They just like to make mischief, using strained logic to override the informed opinions of experts. Like all religious zealots, they believe that God talks directly to them.

President Obama seems to be smarter than President Clinton. I hope that he will filter out the quacks that had a hold on President Clinton. We have a policy to ban bicycles because their air values are made of brass. But we can only hope that a Harvard trained instructor at the University of Chicago can see the foolishness of such a policy. And it is a long shot. So much for American education!

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By: Esther

Esther — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:17:26 +0000

Adler’s appointment is akin to the unions running Chrysler. Huge conflict of interest, IMO. Definitely doesn’t meet Obama’s requirement of no lobbyists in his administration, but maybe he will make ANOTHER exception.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:09:00 +0000

That’s wise of Jim to offer Inez his support. As for me, I was not impressed with her tenure as State Superintendent of Schools. Nearly every morning we heard a sound bite from her on the news about how she was fixin’ to do this or that, but I saw stagnation. Sadly, stagnation in South Carolina stinks. She is looking to move up the ladder. She will do what the ladder holders say. “I seen it myself.”

By: Deputyheadmistress

Deputyheadmistress — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:48:01 +0000

It’s not clear to me how Obama can take credit for increasing the Commission to five and increasing the budget when both of these things were mandated by the CPSIA itself and set to take place this year anyway.

By: PointOfLaw Forum

PointOfLaw Forum — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:38:12 +0000

New Obama appointments to CPSC…

I’ve got a post up at Overlawyered taking a quick preliminary look at the nominations of Inez Moore Tenenbaum as the new CPSC chair and Robert Adler as a commissioner…….

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Tue, 05 May 2009 20:29:17 +0000

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