The Campaign for America's Future (CAF) -- a liberal group whose founders include union officials, academics and former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich -- is using Barbie and Ken to bash the Bush administration:

Who's to blame? Why, the evil right wing, of course:

See what happens when conservative ideology shrinks the Consumer Product Safety Commission, puts cronies in charge and leaves American consumers without protection from products made in factories with no health and safety standards.

Then sign our petition to tell Nancy Nord, the acting CPSC director ,"Since you don't want to do your job, it's time for you to go." She has resisted congressional efforts to empower her agency, working from the same right-wing, anti-regulatory playbook that has led to the agency losing roughly half its staff and budget since 1980.

ABC News notes that CAF employs "a crude parallel between lead poisoning and sexually transmitted diseases."

Are they urging abstinence from free trade?

-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times