[sspadowsky]

You're not alone, Cosmo. I don't see how it ever could've been regarded as a good idea, especially given the Republican party's typical bent toward "smaller government."

"Hey, guys, I've got a great idea! Let's take several large bureaucracies and merge them into one HUGE, INCONCEIVABLY IMMENSE bureaucracy!" By god, if that isn't a recipe for efficiency, then I don't know what is.

EDIT: Didn't mean to hijack the thread. Wouldn't you think that, by now, Tom Ridge would be sick of looking stupid for issuing fake alerts that people stopped paying attention to a long time ago?