[HiTech RedNeck]

It would be a feelgood move to merge the alphabet soup into one big “ombudsman” agency, but that agency would have more people than the former old ones combined. Out of frying pan, into fire.

[Red Badger]

Wesley Mouch: "I MUST HAVE MORE POWER!"..........Atlas Shrugged........

[yup2394871293]

This is actually a clever move. Obama and Democrats are to blame for the current level of dysfunction in congress. Any proposal to merge bureaucracies (and supposedly shrink them in the process) is going to have to go through Obama and Harry Reid anyway, but does anyone see a Republican president asking for powers like this? Maybe. But on the other hand, the MSM would go into attack mode if a GOP president sought these powers. Probably won't get Obama any more votes, but it makes GOP candidates look sort of weak. Sickening, isn't it?

I almost wish a 10 Richter scale earthquake would level everything in the beltway. It would make things so much simpler.

[BitWielder1]

Good idea bad execution.
It would be better if congress wrote legislation to that effect and 0 would have to sign it.
Do not hand power to 0, he will propose something blatantly leftist, like create a whole new super-agency under one of his nutjob consumer advocacy environmentalist czars, and then blame the Republicans for obstructing his gov't reduction efforts.

[mardi59]

Sounds familiar!

Hitler knew that the task he had set himself would be immense and difficult to accomplish, that he would have to transform Germany in practically every respect: the structure of the state, social law, the constitution of society, the economy, civic spirit, culture, the very nature of men’s thinking. To accomplish his great goal, he would need to reestablish the equilibrium of the social classes within the context of a regenerated community, free his nation from foreign hegemony, and restructure its geographic unity.

Task number one: he would have to restore work and honor to the lives of six million unemployed. This was his immediate goal, a task that everyone else thought impossible to achieve.

After he had once again closed the windows of the chancellery, Hitler, with clenched fists and resolute mien, said simply: “The great venture begins. The day of the Third Reich has come.”

In just one year this “great venture” would be in full swing, effecting a transformation from top to bottom in political, social and economic life — indeed, in the German way of life itself./

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p299_Degrelle.html

[mandaladon]

Obama wants to shrink government­? LOL ...is this a joke ?

[Candor7]

Obama is not a communist. He is a fascist.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

[Candor7]

Obama is a nationalist-socialist: a fascist.He is a black power/ethnic minority nationalist who seeks to destroy America as a melting pot, white majority society. He is a socialist because he means to destroy the wealthy class, tax them and their income sources out of existence, destroy conservative culture, destroy conservative politics and destroy conservative capitalist economy. Then fascist Obama will build his cultural mosaic fascist society where only those who get the Obama approval can acumulate wealth in society, we already see this in GE and in the health care waivers, for example.

This distinction we NEED to know in order to defeat Obama and his movement. Fascists are defeated by truth ( no spin on facts), exposure ( publication in the press)and ridicule ( disempowerment through ridicule in public.), the formula taught by WInston Churchill.

We either do this now for the Nov. election,or we will be fighting with guns in the streets to destroy the Obama movement. Communism has the ideology of equality of wealth which Obama and his running dogs do not have,fighting him as a communist will not work, and the Unions are being used by Obama, as they may soon find out.The Unions can be turned against Obama very easily by revealing the facts about Obama and his fascist movement

[familyop]

Politicians? Heh. See information about the constituents who get what they want from the politicians.

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2832259/posts

[Jacquerie]

Lots of great comments.

Be sure to communicate your disgust with Zero to your Congress-Critters!

[1010RD]

Use it, only let Congress pre-package the mergers. You could fold up DOE and DOEd by simply returning their funds per capita to the states.

Commerce can get the chop as well. Cato has a prepared list:

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/

As does Heritage: http://www.heritage.org/issues/budget-and-spending