
Bill Maher is the latest convert to the idea that America's addiction to regulatory process and public input is preventing us from having nice things like renewable energy and new housing.
In a Friday monologue on his HBO show Real Time, Maher laid into "the real deep state" of "regulators, administrators, contract reviewers, project managers, fee accessors, special commissioners, zoning officers, and consultants whose job seems to be to make sure that nothing ever happens and then charge you for it."