What Are Elections For, Anyway?

According to this article, one gets the impression that the Governor is quite serious about rooting out waste in state spending.

Gov. Perdue announced Thursday the initial membership of her Budget Reform and Accountability Commission.
The commission’s first task will be to conduct a detailed review of the state’s entire continuation budget to identify inefficiencies and develop options for cuts and consolidations

Funny, here I thought the voters of North Carolina already selected a group "to identify inefficiencies and develop options" regarding the state budget. Why do we need a special "commission" to do the job the Governor and General Assembly is already supposed to be doing?

Want to find inefficiencies and waste? Gee, I dunno, maybe you could start by reducing the number of commissions, boards and committees in state government.

Oh the irony.