Tuesday, January 30, 2007

The Surreality-Based White House

In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries.

Because that worked out so well in the U.S.S.R.

And hasn't he already taken on enough things that he can't seem to manage?

Add to the inanity of this idea the following bald-faced lie:

In an interview on Monday, Jeffrey A. Rosen, general counsel at the White House Office of Management and Budget, said, "This is a classic good-government measure that will make federal agencies more open and accountable."

Gory details in the NYT.

4 comments:

billie said...

and swell the bureaucracy even more. the new fiscal conservatives?

bjkeefe said...

Yup. And for all of that extra money, we won't even be getting people who are trained in the fields that they'll be overseeing. Just KGB-style political officers.

Has it been two years yet?

Zo Kwe Zo said...

I believe the word is zampolit. If we're going to steal the idea, we should at least give them credit for it.

bjkeefe said...

Ah, yes. I was reaching for "commissar" during the original posting, but I wasn't sure.

"Zampolit" initially sounded even more to the point. However, the link that you gave says "zampolit had no rights to interfere with operative orders of a commander."

So I guess I meant something even more sinister.

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