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You misquote the article and try and focus attention on just the sensitivity to having "science-based" regulatory based office run by political appointees when it is in fact, all Executive branch govt offices that will be overseen by political apointees.

Of course, you nor especially the NYT, will point out that this is in reaction to the fact the the US Congress (which is, last I heard, a political branch of the US govt) just passed a huge Continuing Resolution to fund the operations of the Executive Branch for the remainder of FY '07 and that bill stripped all "Ear Marking" budget items out yet left the appropriations money in. So that, in effect, there are billions of un-targeted $'s for all of the Executive agencies to spend. Now, Bush's political appointees get to oversee that spending.

What I love is that an obvious lefty pseudo-science moonbat like you is so focused on one small portion of all of this that you can't see that "Monkey Boy Bush" just set the stage to screw you and the entire Dem Pols in Congress through out '07.