The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog

While I blogged about Brownback and the Bush spying scandal back on Dec. 23rd, the story is getting new prominence from a front page post at Dailykos. I was going to write another blurb, but Terry over at Nitpicker beat me to it. Here is his explanation for Brownback’s definance of the Bush Administration:

…I think he was pushed into it because he wrote an article entitled “A New Contract for America” for Policy Review in 1996, in which he argued that Republicans ought to:

” redesign the executive branch to be consistent with its constitutional authority instead of one still operating on 20th-century, centralized government experiments. We will replace the 14 cabinet-level agencies, which impose more than half a trillion dollars worth of regulations upon the U.S. economy each year, with perhaps nine, and restrict their regulatory powers under constitutional principles. The Constitution does not authorize at the federal level, for example, many of the activities within the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Education, and Energy.”

He also made some “protect the Constitution” noise, but he’s said nothing against Bush until now. This was the point that would have opened him up to all kinds of arguments against his honesty. You do have to give him credit here, but, on the other hand, he’s made no moves to actually implement any of the changes he argued for in the article. Does he remember, I wonder, when he was going to decrease federal spending?

Go read the entire post, and then add Nitpicker to your blogroll and / or bookmarks. The man knows his stuff.