There are 15 cabinet agencies and one Dem cabinet member, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Care to guess whose opinions are rejected the most often by the White House?
In the past four years, the White House has rejected nearly as many Department of Transportation regulations as those of all other departments combined, according to administration records.
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Of 22 return letters, which are sent when the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) “believes that the rulemaking would benefit from further consideration by the agency,” 10 were sent to Transportation; no other agency received more than four.
I realize there may be other factors at play here, but how does it look when a White House obsessed with partisanship rejects so much of the only Dem’s regulatory agenda? Other Dems who may be considered for Bush’s cabinet — Joe Lieberman, I’m looking at you — may want to keep the treatment Mineta has received in mind.