As Rita approaches, Bush's FDA chief calls it quits

Just two months after he was confirmed by the Senate, George W. Bush's commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has chosen a Friday afternoon with a hurricane approaching to announce that he's resigning. Lester Crawford's announcement was a surprise but not a shock: As the Associated Press notes, his brief tenure at the FDA was marked by complaints over the agency's handling of the painkiller Vioxx and its delays in approving the morning-after pill.