[MrB]

Regulatory agencies are like bug lights for control freak libs. They get to control people’s lives and not be held accountable for the havoc they wreak.

[Texas Eagle]

And, in many cases (if not most or all), they exempt themselves from the rules the rest of us must live by.

That's why lifelong taxpayer leeches like Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd find it so hard to give up the reins of power. They would rather die in office than run the risk of having to live under the laws they pass for the rest of us.