"Head Start works. It has a proven record. [Abandoning it] to the 50 winds of this country is a major step back for the children of this country." -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. quoted in the Washington Times.

I think that Kennedy's allegation of the incompetence of state (and local) governments is characteristic of most Congressmen, especially the Liberal Democrats in the Senate.

I think it is further evidence for a need to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, and put the States back into the national legislative process.