The federal government has become too large when we have czars for a specific species of fish, folks.

The White House has tapped a former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Wildlife Federation as the Asian carp czar to oversee the federal response to keeping the invasive species out of the Great Lakes.

On a conference call today with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin and other congressional leaders, President Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality announced the selection of John Goss to lead the near $80 million, multi-pronged federal attack against Asian carp.

“This is a serious challenge, a serious threat,” Durbin said. “When it comes to the Asian carp threat, we are not in denial. We are not in a go-slow mode. We are in a full attack, full-speed ahead mode. We want to stop this carp from advancing.”

If only Democrats talked about stopping terrorists with the same gusto. Instead, we’re supposed to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, curb our domestic counter-terror programs, close Guantanamo Bay, and treat captured terrorists like they’re simple, domestic criminals.

But the Asian carp invade the Great Lakes and Dick Durbin dons body armor and begins talking like George C. Scott in Patton.

The new Asian carp czar will be charged with making sure the millions we’re spending to fight an invading fish are spent efficiently. The federal government never spends our money efficiently, so basically he’s there to make those affected feel like the Obama Administration cares about their fish problem.