Posted on 09/07/2009 10:38:28 PM PDT by FromLori
Today, President Barack H. Obama appointed yet another “czar”, making the announcement at an AFL-CIO Laborious Day picnic in Cincinnati today; Ron Bloom will make the 33rd Obamic Czar, counting Van Jones, who just resigned but will surely be replaced with a less explosive (but every bit as Marxist) appointee, and after Obama taps someone else to fill Bloom’s old position as Car Czar.
Thanks to Glenn Beck, who has done a bravura job of journalism, here are the Czars; entries in blue are those Czar positions created expressly by Barack Obama:
Richard Holbrooke — Afghanistan Czar Jeffrey Crowley — AIDS Czar Ed Montgomery — Auto Recovery Czar Alan Bersin — Border Czar David J. Hayes — California Water Czar Ron Bloom — Car Czar (moved to Manufacturing Czar today) Dennis Ross — Central Region Czar Todd Stern — Climate Czar Lynn Rosenthal — Domestic Violence Czar Gil Kerlikowske — Drug Czar Paul Volcker — Economic Czar Carol Browner — Energy and Environment Czar Joshua DuBois — Faith Based Czar Jeffrey Zients — Government Performance Czar Cameron Davis — Great Lakes Czar Van Jones — Green Jobs Czar (resigned) Daniel Fried — Guantanamo Closure Czar Nancy-Ann DeParle — Health Czar Vivek Kundra — Information Czar Dennis Blair — Intelligence Czar Ron Bloom — Manufacturing Czar George Mitchell — Mideast Peace Czar Kenneth R. Feinberg — Pay Czar Cass R. Sunstein — Regulatory Czar John Holdren — Science Czar Earl Devaney — Stimulus Accountability Czar J. Scott Gration — Sudan Czar Herb Allison — TARP Czar Aneesh Chopra — Technology Czar John Brennan — Terrorism Czar Adolfo Carrion Jr. — Urban Affairs Czar Ashton Carter — Weapons Czar Gary Samore — WMD Policy Czar In each case, the One has replaced functions normally carried out by cabinets or other agencies, headed by secretaries and directors who are subject to Senate confirmation (thus accountable to the United States Congress), with unelected, unconfirmed, unaccountable apparatchiks who ultimately answer to only one person: Barack Obama.
The departments raided of their authority in favor of Czars include the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, Treasury, Health and Human Services, Labor, Interior, Energy, Commerce, and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) — that’s the entire cabinet except for the Departments of Education, Transportation, and Veterans’ Affairs).
Specific sub-cabinet level agencies subject to the Senate’s “advise and consent” rules, now looted of their powers by the Obamic Czardines, include the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), National Security Council (NSC).
A less charitable observer might conclude that President Obama is systematically creating a shadow government of special commissars, which will allow Obama to bypass congressional oversight and the checks and balances of “independent” (in a sense) agencies to rule the United States directly by decree.
Every “czar” steals some of the authority that would normally reside in the permanent bureaucracy and instead secretes it behind the impregnable wall of an Executive Order: unquestionable, uninvestigatable, unreviewable, unviewable, and of course, un-overturnable by any other branch of government. In fact, I don’t believe Congress can even subpoena a czar to testify before Congress what he’s doing and why, since the president can declare the questioning off limits under “executive privilege.”
Obama has some precedent on his side: Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt also tried to overthrow our system of constitutional checks and balances, in order to rule by diktat, with some success. Wilson (if I recall correctly) wanted virtually all power invested in the Congress (mostly the House, the “people’s legislature”), whereas FDR demanded direct presidential control “for the duration” (of the Depression and World War II — which between them endured for all twelve years of Roosevelt’s tenure — which gave him a perverse incentive not to solve either “crisis”).
Shifting more and more governmental power into the hands of a single man on a white horse, who will personally speak for and on behalf of “the people,” is a classical sign of incipient fascism… which, coupled with Obama’s nationalization of the banks, of executive pay (even within companies that didn’t take a lick of “stimulus” money), energy production and distribution, news reporting and other journalism, labor relations, medical care — and soon food consumption and the body mass of each American — makes a chilling portent of what is to come. As one of Obama’s predecessors wrote, “Everything inside the state — nothing outside the state — nothing against the state.”
I wish somebody would tell me how many elements of fascism must come bubbling to the surface of the new administration (not even a year old… seems like a hundred) before we’re allowed to suggest that Barack Obama, the head of the fish, must himself be a liberal fascist.
Must we wait until he re-enacts Wilson’s sedition act and starts throwing in prison anyone who criticizes the government, the president, or any of the president’s policies?
Unconstitutional to the extreme.
“Every “czar” steals some of the authority that would normally reside in the permanent bureaucracy and instead secretes it behind the impregnable wall of an Executive Order: unquestionable, uninvestigatable, unreviewable, unviewable, and of course, un-overturnable by any other branch of government.”
And I’ll add unthinkable to your unconstitutional.
This being the Chicago Machine the illegal Czars will be used to cover up vast criminal activity.
Yes! Next question?
Seems so. Not a riot to be seen anywhere... Wait... nope, that's just the usual grumbling at the welfare office...
Obama appoints yet another czar on the heels of Mike Pence calling for a cessation of the appointment of czars until Congress can review constitutionality.
The Russian Revolution overthrew Ruassia’s Czar to create a socialist republic; the people of the U.S. will need to throw over an army of socialist czars to keep the U.S. free and capitalistic.
A convenient network for billions of Porkulus dollars to flow through: bribes, pay-offs, hush money, community organizing shams, vote-buying, slush funds, campaign cash, retirements, etc.
I haven’t seen nor heard any of our elected Republican reps making any noise about this either. They are probably curled up in dark corners somewhere... as usual.
Suggest that BHO is fascist?!!! Ha!
Barack Hussein Obama is 100% fascist.
Hey all of you libetards out there...Your boy Zero is the poster child for FASCISM. And you were afraid of GWB!!! Ha! Ha! LMAO!!!!
well, the bright side to all this is that all those libtards existing on government handouts will be the first to feel the wrath of this broke fascist.
And when this horrible wrong is corrected, they must be put on trial for their treason and shown the gallows.
If everyone wrote that to their senator, we'd see some movement and accountability develop regarding the czars.
That’s actually a good idea.
Amazing how many of these commie-sars have ties to Center for American Progress run by John Podesta and bankrolled by Soros.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_American_Progress
I’ve been wondering who’s pulling Obama’s strings, who’s been writing these thousand-page bills - now I know.
You'd be the second because they'd be at your house right away demanding your 'stuff.'
Buy more ammo.
Does anyone have any info on what these czars are actually doing?
What... are they just going around talking?
Giving orders to congressmen?
Giving orders to businesses?
Writing legislation?
Or are they just “advising” the president?
Who is keeping tabs on these 33 jokers?
What are they doing?
What power do they REALLY have, and HOW HAVE they exercised it???
Dont get me wrong... I’m Not defending them... THEY DONT BELONG!... but I really dont think defeating them all like Jones has been defeated is really going to work, nor will it stop the practice.
Surely these people are doing SOMETHING.
What?
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