How Much Damage Can Bush Inflict?

In The New York Times this morning, it's pointed out that GW Bush, has only a few weeks left in office, but he has enough time to make changes to rules and regulations on the environment, civil liberties, and abortion rights, to name but a few.

There are changes afoot at the FBI, with the Attorney General rushing out new guidelines that permit information gathering from Americans even without any evidence of wrong doing.

The Bush administration has been very busy weakening environmental regulations covering clean air and water, and protecting endangered species.

The Interior Department has been scrambling to open up millions of pristine land to oil companies for exploration, much of which even the oil companies are particularly interested in.

Financial laws are being further weakened.

Bush has also apparently decided not to close Guantanamo Bay, even though he thinks it should be, along with his Secretaries of State and Defense.