I don't quite get the 9/11 reference.
All I suggested in my comments at #447 was that President Bush proposed a vision of a large and comprehensive federal mental health apparatus.
In scanning the Final Report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, there are many recommendations for for widespread early detection and intervention of mental health problems in individual Americans. It's true that President Bush hasn't signed off on all of the details proposed, but it's also true, to my reading, that none of the proposals are in conflict with the goals stated by President Bush in the speech where he announced the formation of this commission.
What seems a crystal certainty, however, given past experience with federal medical bureaucracies, is that any proposal will simply be an opening bid. The program will balloon, costs will spiral, and missions will creep.
It also seems clear to me that if every word spoken by President Bush in this endeavor had come from the mouth of Senator Clinton, fewer posters on this board would be so sanguine as they are this morning.
