Not Obama's Czars but his Commissars

The American Thinker ^ | July 20, 2009 | Bruce Walker

[Scanian]

The three dozen or so people that Barack Obama has surrounded himself with to handle this problem or that issue, and yet are not confirmed by the Senate or operating an agency created by Congress, are not really his "czars." These people are, instead, his "commissars." Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany both called those vague, undefined figures appointed by the Leader to carry out his intentions "commissars" (Hollywood never speaks of Nazi commissars for the same reason that it never notes that Nazi Party members called each other "comrade" - the pretense that Nazis and Bolsheviks were polar opposites rather than identical twins is too vital a myth to dispel.)

In our constitutional republic, government does not have a role in every part of life. That is why Congress has to create departments, agencies and administrations. Everything that the federal government does must, in some way, relate to its powers under the Constitution. The first cabinet offices dealt with clear cut federal duties - diplomacy, war, justice, money, and postal services. Before Congress creates a federal office, a threshold question is whether the Constitution allows the work of that office to be done by the federal government. That is the heart of limited government.

There is, for example, no Department to Promote Politically Correct Thinking. No Congress would ever pass a law creating such an entity. A terrified Reichstag or the Central Committee of the Communist Party, on the other hand, might well do that. In those totalitarian regimes, "government" does not really exist: the party exists or, rather, the party and the state in a hopeless confusion of purpose and function. The very independence of Congress, even a venal and silly Congress, is a natural check upon a party-state with a leader at its apex.

[ChocChipCookie]

More than anything, Obama’s world is looking more and more like a replica of the old USSR. As one Freeper said a while back, “You can prepare for a hurricane. You can’t prepare for communism.”

[musicman]

“You can’t prepare for communism.”

[corvus]

Thank you. Much more appropriate word. Significance to our Constitutional Republic the same. Their loyalty to party leader, not to “we the people”.

[cajungirl]

very good article, a must read.

[greyfoxx39]

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[SierraWasp]

Thanks for this ping! I thought they also called these types “Apuratchiks”(sp?).

[greyfoxx39]

Thanks for this ping! I thought they also called these types “Apuratchiks”(sp?).

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[greyfoxx39]

Thanks for the link to “Hope n’ Change”..as you see, I borrowed from your post.

[musicman]

[EdReform]

BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

Excellent.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2296418/posts?page=8#8

[Ultra Sonic 007]

One for the list.

[phillyfanatic]

This guy, Holderen as well as Holder are such radicals that one wonders who in the Kremlin planned BHO’s administration.

[bamahead]

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[SierraWasp]

Thanks. It used to be so irrelevant to America that I never put forth the effort to learn to spell it. Thanks.

[greyfoxx39]

We can thank the following for the revival of the czars...