MICKEY KAUS: “The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has left a decades-long swath of urban destruction in its wake. It has been hampered, in part, by the peculiar disabilities legalistic liberals have imposed on government agencies they claim to support–including a relative inability to get rid of bad tenants without special court-enforced procedural rights (on the grounds that a government benefit is ‘property’ under the Constitution). If a farsighted liberal President were looking for a way to cut back government bureaucracy to a sustainable level, this ‘mid-sized’ agency (9,000 employees) would be a good place to start.”

Well, I’d go for the TSA first, but yeah. Only who is this “farsighted liberal President” you’re talking about?