And they griped about big gov and intrusiveness because Bush wanted to monitor terrorists on our land and they take glee in this???
Pretty easy: the Bush Plan gave them no power. This gives them no end of power. That's what they want, and simplicity or complexity really doesn't enter into their thought process, as I see it.
I think Progressives really do dream of refining the human genome to the point where everybody has a body-age of 35 forever. Those of us who don't fit that paradigm or can't attain it are truly redundant and would need to be disposed of. This permits that. Think of them as a million Mikeys.