The whole federal government is. It has crept that way since 1989 at slower or faster pace under one POTUS and Congress or another, but never without steady encroachments. Obama is a mere pustule. The federal system is the pox. Treat the disease and not the symptom.
Go back another hundred years. It began when Vladimer Lenin sent Julious and Armand Hammer to the USA to raise money for the Communists in Russia to help them overthrow the Tsar. Two of their early recruits were Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, and Senator Albert Gore Sr., of Tenn.