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2009-09-07 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-09-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 May the Lord bless and keep the czars far away from us! (Fiddler on the Roof)

Posted by DMFD 2009-09-07 00:36|| 2009-09-07 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's call them Kaisers. Same word, different language, more accurate connotation.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-09-07 02:53|| 2009-09-07 02:53|| Front Page Top

#3 If you cannot handle that executive office with the current appointment staff and have to double it, you are clearly incompetent.

These 40 something fools are not good managers anyway. What a train wreck. Maybe it is time to audit the executive branch - especially the white house to find out how much all this crap is costing us.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-09-07 06:52|| 2009-09-07 06:52|| Front Page Top

#4 The MSM isn't going to investigate these 'czars'. I guess it's up to Drudge, talk radio and blogs.

Posted by Steve White 2009-09-07 09:25|| 2009-09-07 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 So with all these czars... what is Obama actually doing? Any work at all?

Posted by DarthVader 2009-09-07 10:36|| 2009-09-07 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 So with all these czars... what is Obama actually doing? Any work at all?
Posted by: DarthVader 2009-09-07 10:36

Darth, when you are the ONE everyone has been waiting for, you don't need to work. Just be who you are and bask in all the adoration.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-09-07 11:28|| 2009-09-07 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't get it. Are these people working under existing departments and cabinet secretaries or are they independent? If they are working under existing departments and secretaries then why all the hoopla? If they are independent shouldn't there be some kind of legislation that authorizes their activities and any expenditure of funds for said activities?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-09-07 13:17|| 2009-09-07 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Therein lies the problem Abu.

They are 'outside' the departments but have near-presidential authority over the department. Separate but near equal to (and in some cases exceeding) the cabinet secretary.

They are also outside the normal checks and balances built into the system. While its normal for a president to appoint a special advisor in a certain area to 'advise him' in special circumstances - no president has appointed so may and with such wide-ranging authority. Just what the fark is the 'International Climate Czar' anyway?

All according to design - to circumvent the congressional approval process.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-09-07 14:44|| 2009-09-07 14:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Not only approval, but oversight and appropriations. Congress has little formal leverage over them because they have little formal authority or power. But their direct access to the oval office gives them tremendous informal, and unaccountable, power.

Both parties have used them, but it has gotten out of hand and will be reined in in 2011.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-09-07 14:59|| 2009-09-07 14:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Where's the Putz Czar?

Posted by JohnQC 2009-09-07 15:58|| 2009-09-07 15:58|| Front Page Top

#11 We have a Manufacturing Tsar. Ron Bloom, former SEIU big wig.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-09-07 16:56|| 2009-09-07 16:56|| Front Page Top

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