Posted on 08/31/2009 2:45:13 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
For the past several days, FOX News' Glenn Beck has been exhorting his viewers to lay aside their ideologies and ask themselves, with open minds, whether what they are witnessing in the Obama administration is congruent with what they would expect of a President governing from somewhere near the center of the political spectrum rather than from the extreme left. A key figure upon whom Beck has focused his attention is Van Jones, Obama’s "Green Jobs Czar."
Jones is one of approximately 32 czars whom Obama has appointed thus far. These czars have been described as "super aides" who work across agency lines to push the President’s agenda, and who have the power to shape national policy. Most significantly, a majority of czars can be appointed without confirmation hearings or Senate approval; thus they (and the President) are insulated from accountability to Congress. Such an arrangement threatens to increase the power of the President beyond what is Constitutionally mandated. Even lifelong Democrat Senator Robert Byrd has said the czar system "can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances."
If we look at Van Jones' background, it is difficult to believe he would have been approved for a cabinet post by the Senate. If we are correct in making that judgment, does it suggest anything about the President's motives for having appointed Jones as a czar rather than as a member of his cabinet?
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If President Bush had tried such a naked power grab, the MSM would have been screaming from the roof tops...
does it suggest anything about the President’s motives for having appointed Jones as a czar rather than as a member of his cabinet?
Obama’s goal is to destroy America as we know it.
All motives actions etc gotowards that end.
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Robert Byrd has suggested it can threaten checks and balances, but what has he or any other member of the Senate done to stop it?
Why havent they done anything to stop it? What are they frightened of? Are they blind to the fact that their authority is being slowly bled away? Dont they care? Harry Redi is their leader is he too stupid to see the problem? Why arent the republicans jumping up and down over this. Is this a conspiracy to bring the government under the control of the presidency?
Glenn Beck may be a little off the wall here, but who can answer these questions?
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