Obama continues government by ad-hoc committee

I’m all with President Obama’s plans to upgrade the Food and Drug Administration with more inspectors, more inspections, etc. I am not so much with him forming a special ad hoc cabinet-level working group to study other ways to improve the food safety and supply, etc.

First, when you put multiple cabinet secretaries together, you’re pretty much guaranteed turf battles. Second, Ag and HHS are pretty much guaranteed not to see eye-to-eye on many of the issues involved.

Obama’s learned too many of the wrong ideas of governance from Jack Kennedy, the first president to really start the idea of ad hoc executive government.