Maybe Bush and Reagan were Democrats?
Or maybe it's just politicians in general ...
Reminds me of a speech by Michael Crichton called Fear, Complexity, and Environmental Management in the 21st Century. Short version: almost everything we tinker with goes wrong and has unintended consequences that were made worse than if we hadn't tinkered with it.
http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/182h/Climate/Fear,%20Complexity,%20&%20Environmental%20Management%20in%20the%2021st%20Century.htm