This explains a lot:
Cass Sunstein (the guy who Glenn has called the most dangerous man in America because of his regulatory powers) summed up the main issue conservatives have with progressives. Glenn plays the recently unearthed clip of Sunstein saying, “Some conservative legal thinkers like Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas think that the Constitution means what it originally meant.” [italics added]
The Glenn is the Beck man. Sunstein:
taught at the University of Chicago Law School, where he continues to teach as the Harry Kalven Visiting Professor. [He] is currently Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he is on leave while working in the Obama administration.
His gummint job:
In September 2009, the Senate confirmed Professor Cass Sunstein to be Director of the White House OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs – the so-called “regulatory czar,” so named because all major proposed regulations go through the office for approval.
This Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs was
established in the 1980 Paperwork Reduction Act. OIRA is located within the Office of Management and Budget, which is an agency within the Executive Office of the President. It is staffed by both political appointees and career civil servants . . . . In addition to reviewing draft regulations under Executive Order 12866, OIRA reviews collections of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act, and also develops and oversees the implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information technology, information policy, privacy, and statistical policy. [italics added]
Lot of power there, but his appointment “generated controversy among progressive legal scholars and environmentalists,” who feared him as anti-regulatory, says Wikipedia, citing The Center for Progressive Reform and The Wonk Room: Think Progress, who are probably impossible to please in these matters.
Blithe Spirit 