Sen. John Kerry was crowing after President Bush withdrew the nomination of Michael Baroody as the new chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
"I hope the White House now knows that on an issue as important as consumer safety we won't allow them to put a fox in charge of guarding the henhouse," said Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat who opposed Mr. Baroody's confirmation.
"This agency matters too much to parents and children to be a gift to someone without even a vague interest in consumer protection," he said. "The White House now needs to send us a nominee who will fight for consumers, not one who will fight against their interests."
-- S.A. Miller, Capitol Hill correspondent, The Washington Times