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Ah yes, here comes Eeyores of the Broken Record Conservatives, nothing is ever good, the sky is always falling, everyone else has blown it. Utopia in one fell swoop, or its all a waste, eh?

Actually this looks pretty impressive. Could be in effect an end around many of the holdovers, maybe even a form of busting the civil service union. Depends on how the transfer takes place. Notice how for almost all the changes only a few at the top were consulted, headed off not only leaks but any attempts by Dems to undermine with false contentious issues(in an attempt to protect turf). He's not duplicating, but rearranging and moving. Notice that much of the budget comes out of the budget for other departments. And with any move there is usually an inventory taken, simplification, and a clearing out of excess.

Now there is almost no way Congress can substantially change this, the public is going to support it bigtime as a common sense reform. So Bush has strong public backing and gets to tear into some of the entrenched beauracracy and shape a new, leaner agency. Yet if he had proposed directly earlier this year that he was going to cut the fat in many departments, he might have faced enough opposition to have never been able to get them implemented. Brilliant, and it crept up quietly. So if Bush can stealthily pull off some trimming of the fat, what other conservative moves is he plotting to pull off that we haven't been tipped off to?

So if Bush can stealthily pull off some trimming of the fat, what other conservative moves is he plotting to pull off that we haven't been tipped off to?

You are DELUDED! Jorge has been adding fat to the federal government faster than Hillary's been adding it to her thunderous thighs. What could POSSIBLY make you think this move has ANYTHING to do with cutting the size of the Federal Government? Besides, of course, your blind and delusional belief that Jorge Bush is anything even approximating a conservative.

And with any move there is usually an inventory taken, simplification, and a clearing out of excess.

So Bush has strong public backing and gets to tear into some of the entrenched beauracracy and shape a new, leaner agency.

Exactly what I was thinking last night during the speech. Reforming existing bureaucracies is almost impossible so GW decided to rip out the chunks he wanted to reform and dump them into a new one that can be organized from scratch. He didn't give it any (or at least only limited) law enforcement powers so it's unlikely to become an American SS or KGB. Looks like a pretty smart move to me.