Instapundit linked up this Virginia Postrel note that claims the breast implant controversy is not a medical problem, but a flat out culture war. Further, she notes that the divisions driving the debate haven't changed perceptibly since she wrote this extremely interesting op-ed in 1992:

But the breast-implant debate reveals at least three other fundamental divisions -- about the interests of consumers, of women and of science -- that reflect very different sets of values and ways of understanding the world: How much justification must consumers give the government for their choices? Are women liberated by rediscovering their natural femininity or by seizing control over their biological destinies? And, at least for the sake of public policy, how do we sort evidence from anecdote?

The longer clinical research revealed no link between silicone breast implants and connective tissue diseases, the more I became convinced this was politics and agenda-pushing rather than any real attempt at protection. It was one of the things that pointed me down the road of dynamism and libertarianism (the "it's-my-damned-money-I'll-do-what-I-please-with-it" school of South Park conservativism, if you will).

No, the current administration and congress isn't much, if any, better. But thinking getting Bush or the Republicans out will make it all better misses the point. When you hold a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you want to keep someone from trying to open a wine bottle with it, you don't give the hammer to a different person, you take the hammer away.