e. coli conservatism

Once in power, E. coli conservatives shrink government by hamstringing it. They weaken rules that protect people, slash the budgets of consumer agencies and appoint industry friends to oversight commissions. The result: Some government regulatory agencies that we trust to protect us have shrunk to insignificance or serve private industry rather than consumers. . . . Enough. Instead of talking about the size of government, we should be debating how to make our government more effective. How many more people have to get sick before the government reclaims its mission to serve the people?

it's happened all over government---aside from katrina and the ongoing issues surrounding the f.d.a.'s monitoring, or lack thereof, of our food supply, one of the better examples of this was the revelation that the f.a.a. was referring to the airlines as its "customers"---we, common citizens, are but chopped liver where mammon rules