Matt Gunterman March 13th, 2007

After the new Democratic majority finishes shining some light on rampant corruption in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s Department of Justice, you have to wonder if the next target for cleanup won’t be Secretary Elaine Chao’s Department of Labor.

Ann Imse and Laura Frank reporting in the Rocky Mountain News, after all, find a high level of outrage on Capitol Hill (on both sides of the isle) over attempts in the Labor Department to complicate the process sick nuclear facility employees get treatment by. The plans were to draw things out long enough that the workers simply died first, and it was all to be done in the name of being a good “fiscal conservative.”

Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) said of it, “Clearly, the administration put dollars above honoring the nation’s promise to the Cold War veterans,” and went on to compare the fiasco to the recent Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal.

Plus, for Democrats, targeting a corrupt or incompetent Sec. Elaine Chao has the added bonus of complicating the life of obstinate Senator Mitch McConnell.

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