http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Industrial_Recovery_Act

Heard Mike Savage talking about a current article written about this. Need to find it.

We can not let a crisis go to waste.

from the wikipedia article.

Extraordinary conditions may call for extraordinary remedies. But the argument necessarily stops short of an attempt to justify action which lies outside the sphere of constitutional authority. Extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional power."[