I know one thing the "Results Commission" won't produce ...

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

The Bush administration plans to create two new commissions, the Sunset Commission and the Results Commission, that are designed, according to Charles Hunt of The Washington Times, "to evaluate all federal government agencies and eliminate those that did not perform as promised." I've always believed in the need for this kind of evaluation, but I hate to see it performed by the Bush gang. The same applies to another effort of the administration that I would ordinarily applaud--its attempt to make pay raises more dependent upon performance and less on seniority.

The problem is that what the Bushies regard as effective performance by an agency or an employee...