Monday, April 25, 2005

"Bush's Most Radical Plan"

This excellent Rolling Stone article was pointed out to us from a massdems.org user in Middleboro.

If you aren't aware of President Bush's 'Sunset commission' you absolutely should be.

From the article:
"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."

Any program? Scary stuff.

Thanks to our contributor!

3 Comments:

At 11:18 AM, April 25, 2005, Blogger Shawn Hartman said...

No problem for the OT Lisa,

We do have a calendar of town events, but not all our towns post their events on it. I would contact the chair of Watertown. His information can be found here:

http://www.massdems.org/getlocal/chairslist.cfm

 
At 4:21 PM, April 26, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I really do not see a prtoblem with this. Sunset provisions are written into many laws now and the commission would not be able to look at anything before its birth. And Congress can exemptany future legislation from the sunset commission

 
At 10:08 AM, April 27, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the author of the article and Rep. Waxman have pretty convincing arguments of the dangers of this plan....

"...the commission not only threatens the environment and public health -- it would also violate the constitutional separation of power between Congress and the executive branch, enabling the president to dismantle programs created by lawmakers. "Under the administration's proposal, Congress would relinquish its constitutional power to legislate," says Rep. Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California who has been the commission's most vocal opponent. "Power would be consolidated in the executive branch, and the legislative role would be emasculated...

...opponents consider the commission a serious threat. "The end result," says Waxman, "would be a field day for corporate lobbyists.""

 

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