Thanks to George Bush for creating the worst Fed.gov super-agency yet.
The only positive is that Americans (and especially conservatives, the only true “activists” remaining) are so highly skeptical of government that I am not sure it could be done again.
This progressive love for top-down, central-planning agencies started one hundred years ago, and reached its peak with LBJ, Nixon and Carter. Roman Emperors used to build arches or coliseums in their own honor - now It seems to be a goal of empire-building Presidents as a who of strength and to create a legacy by having some bigger-and-better, super-expensive and wasteful super-agency created under their watch.
I have to agree. And kudos to Tom Daschle, who insisted that federalizing these thieves would insure that they would be professional.