The ugly Bush Stain: Water toxin edition

By GottaLaff

The toxic stain known as BushCo cares nothing about Americans. Nothing:

Among the Bush administration's final environmental legacies will be a decision to exempt perchlorate, a known toxin found at unsafe levels in the drinking water of millions of Americans, from federal regulation. [...] It could take years to reverse.

Anila Jacobs at the nonprofit Environmental Working Group:

"We know that breast milk is widely contaminated with perchlorate, and we know that young children are especially vulnerable."

Nice, huh? Can't get more pro-life than that.

The ruling is one of dozens planned for the final days of the Bush administration. Others include a relaxing of air pollution standards for aging power plants, and a reduction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's traditional role in evaluating the impact of federal projects on endangered species. [...]

It is known to lower thyroid hormone levels in women; it poses a particular threat to pregnant women and breast-feeding children, whose long-term neurological development can be stunted by youthful hormone imbalances.

Bush is the human equivalent of the most virulent malignancy imaginable. Between wars and environmental destruction, he has done more to threaten and/or end lives than Al Qaeda and Big Bad WMD-wielding Saddam Hussein put together.

Nursing mothers of infants everywhere are thanking you, W. Take a freaking bow.

H/t: Chris