Well, that's appropriate....

This is from Bob Harris' blog. As it's a short entry, I'm going to cut & paste the whole thing.

From Rolling Stone (with thanks to alert reader Mark):

The proposal, spelled out in three short sentences, would give the president the power to appoint an eight-member panel called the "Sunset Commission," which would systematically review federal programs every ten years and decide whether they should be eliminated. Any programs that are not "producing results," in the eyes of the commission, would "automatically terminate unless the Congress took action to continue them."

... the commission would enable the Bush administration to achieve what Ronald Reagan only dreamed of: the end of government regulation as we know it. With a simple vote of five commissioners -- many of them likely to be lobbyists and executives from major corporations currently subject to federal oversight -- the president could terminate any program or agency he dislikes. No more Environmental Protection Agency. No more Food and Drug Administration. No more Securities and Exchange Commission.

This should be no surprise to anyone paying attention. The Chimpsters long ago sniffed out the Social Contract as a communist plot. They've been trying to stamp out every vestige ever since.

Really scary stuff (particularly for someone that works for a non-profit organization that will probably be one of the first to get the boot), but I had to shake my head in disbelief at the title...

The Sunset Commission?

So... Bush commissions, policies, what have you are leading us basically into the pitch-blackness of night. And they're openly admitting it with the ridiculous names that they're giving to these things.

Every time he appears on television, Bush should just stand there, giving us the finger, as he speaks. Because that's basically what he does with even the smallest details of every goddamned thing he does.

(cross posted from my blog)