Me too - I wonder about President Obama ...
And, more importantly, so does Rena Steinzor, President of the Center for Progressive Reform and Professor, University of Maryland School of Law. She writes [in ACSblog]
" ... Those of us who have spent our lives working to strengthen worker protections, drug and food safety, and pollution control are in a state of disbelief as we watch this potentially transformative president fritter away the opportunity to at last put robust safeguards in place. Instead, his Administration is making concession after concession on the regulatory front – watering down or backing off of strong proposals from regulatory agencies, and even adopting the anti-regulation rhetoric of the opponents of protections for health, safety, and the environment...."