Dumb laws are dumb laws, regardless on whose watch they occur.

The public never seems to understand or accept the process from statute creation, to setting up the organization within the Executive to make it happen, to getting the staff for the organization, to training the staff for the organization, to writing the regulations the organization and the public will have to work under, to getting the regulations blessed through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to solicit and receive public comment on the proposed regulations, then write the final regulations, then publish the regulations in the Federal Register, then revise the current fiscal year's budget through OMB and submit the next three years' budgets with full justification, and then start answering public inquiries, prepare a Report to Congress on what's been done so far with timeta bles for the rest, andTHEN start to work.

That's a brief synopsis of what happens when it goes smoothly, and it takes many, many months to get from Statute to Operating Organization. Title 5, U.S. Code, Part 1, Chapters 5-9 codify the process, and the President and Congress know this process intimately. However, there's no headlines in process activities, so usually once the statute becomes law, the public expects instantaneous action, Congress makes a lot of noise about lack of action, but the law is the law, and it's Congress' law.