[marron]

Every federal agency should have to underego examination to determine if they are authorized by the Constitution.

Yes. Absolutely.

Any agency that is not constitutionally federal in nature should either be dismantled, or divided into 50 parts and handed back to the states. That puts political control closer to the control of the citizen. And, it allows 50 ongoing experiments in governance, which is what our system is supposed to provide. There is nothing wrong with having 50 different policies on a given subject; if we are free people, it is a certainty that we will have 50 different policies that should converge over time, but never completely agree.

And I agree with your earlier post; to even think about doing this, it is going to take a clear Repub majority in Congress... not just Repubs, of course, but conservative small "L" libertarian Repubs, to get this job done.

[Jim Robinson]

And I agree with both of you. We must elect the most conservative candidates as possible. The big "L" and the little "l" libertarians should take a lesson from Ron Paul. If they really want to get elected to make a difference, as opposed to just sending a message that will never be heard, they should pool their resources and get some of their best people through the primaries and onto a Republican ticket where there are numbers to actually win a race. Ron Paul is great, but the Libertarian Caucus in the Congress is a virtual graveyard. There's only one man standing. Give the man some help. He deserves it. We all deserve it.