Deregulation cripples government's ability to protect its Citizens

Interesting commentary on cnn.com from Julian Zelizer.

"With the BP spill, the question revolves around deregulation. As with the financial meltdown in the fall 2008, the oil spill highlights the cost of weakening regulations -- in this case, those rules that had been adopted to safeguard the environment.
For over four decades, some conservatives and centrist Democrats have waged war on the environmental infrastructure that was put into place during the 1960s and 1970s (including under Republican President Nixon). "
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/01/zelizer.deregulation.oil/index.html?hpt=T1