Saturday, March 15, 2008

Small Enough To Drown in a Bathtub



That's how Grover Norquist memorably said the federal government should be. That the government also does useful things which would go down the drain of that mythical bathtub is often forgotten. For instance, the FDA might want to test all heparin products imported into the country, to save a few lives here and there. But the FDA needs to be a little bigger than bathtub-sized to manage that.