Will the real Democrats please stand up?

Kevin Drum hints a bit at one of the fears I've voiced openly on this blog several times before, i.e., that even Democratic presidential candidates may be reluctant to roll back the extraordinary powers that Bush has claimed because they too will want to be powerful.

This move [to place political operatives at the head of every regulatory agency] has prompted the usual withering scorn, most of it undoubtedly well deserved. But let's not stop at scorn, people. After all, Bill Clinton was no slouch at consolidating White House control of cabinet agencies himself. Bush has taken this to stratospheric heights -- mainly in a backdoor attempt to gut laws that are too popular to get repealed in a straight-up fight -- but it's hardly an exclusively Republican preserve. What's more, there's a pretty reasonable argument that an elected president should have greater policy control over the rulemakers in our farflung executive bureaucracy.

So let's find out. Are we really opposed to this? This is an executive order, after all, and that means the next president can rescind it at will. So let's get all the Democratic presidential candidates on the record: if you're elected, will you rescind this order? Who's up for this?