politics: The department of redundancy, repetition and redundancy department

Had I been in the mood for it, this article would have made me laugh.

Um. Isn't it the job if the FDA to be independent and to ensure drug safety? It was selling out government to the corporations that made it nothing more than a toxic rubber-stamp agency, not some organizational flaw.

So the Republican Regime response? Add another agency! Add another department! Add another commission! Add another board!

It's very like their response to all of the redundancy and confusion amid cross-communication involved in coordinating terrorism intelligence: Add another layer of bureaucracy!

Spend more! Add more departments! Have meetings about having meetings about scheduling a discussion about having a meeting someday about some agenda item as yet undecided, but that will be decided in a committee meeting about six moths from now after several other meetings intended to help set up that meeting.

Fiscal responsibility, my left nut! People are dying because of your greed and incompetence, you idiots. On the streets of America and in their houses, on the streets of Iraq and in their houses. You are so black of heart and empty of soul that the death of the commoner means nothing to you as long as it advances your power.

I hope a particularly painful and debilitating disease strikes you, purely by chance and not by anyone's design, and that the drugs you take, the ones approved by this disastrously corrupt institution are every bit as safe and effective as you've made sure they are.

And then I hope you burn in hell for eternity, alone in your torment while we are deaf to your screams.

Sorry. Feeling a little grumpy today.