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09 September 2011

Something that should put a smile on your face

From Café Hayek:
Behold, the Office of the Repealer. "Office of the Repealer" is a wonderful title. I wonder who gets to be Chief of Repeals.

It seems like this could morph and take on an awful lot of the duties that an Ombudsman's Office would perform in Scandinavian nations, though the added nod to the concept of limited government and its long, proud tradition in the US will hopefully prevent it from becoming part of the very problem it hopes to solve. The function of the Ombudsman has traditionally been to help the citizen (or subject, as is more generally the case in Scandinavia) negotiate the bureaucracy and act as a sort of liaison. Even this might be helpful, though it may not be useful at the federal level, where it would almost certainly metastasize in malignant ways.

Nevertheless, this is a welcome advancement in US governing. May it be replicated until Grover Norquist can at least get one good night's sleep.

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