Czars here, czars there, czars everywhere, and blammo wants even more czars

[CG6468]

Obama Proposes New Czar
Townhall.com ^ | September 19, 2011 | Lurita Doan

Posted on Monday, September 19, 2011 6:51:13 AM by Kaslin

As the Obama agenda proves increasingly impotent, Americans have witnessed Obama's czars crash and burn or run for cover over the past thirty months.  From Van Jones to Kevin Jennings  to Nancy-Ann DeParle to Todd Stern to Ron Bloom, Obama's style of management--bypassing the senate-confirmed agency heads--has failed to yield the results promised to the American people.  You would think Obama would give up on the failed idea of using a curious collection of White House czars to manage complex economic and regulatory issues. No way.

Instead, in the American Jobs Act, Obama is proposing a new group of czars as a part of his "jobs" act-- the American Infrastructure Financing Authority (AIFA) czars.  President Obama’s newest czars will be given the authority to manage over a trillion dollars of federal funding for roads, bridges, buildings, waterways, dams and other infrastructure.

Here we go again.  No doubt, Obama hopes that few legislators or American citizens will read the deadly details buried within the 199 pages of his proposed American Jobs Act that will establish this latest czar-ship, nor understand just how expensive AIFA is going to be. 

As with Obama’s other czars, the AIFA czar comes with infrastructure requirements of his own: staff, office space and technology needed to perform the job. Managing what is in reality a trillion dollar budget is going to require a huge new staff that will, essentially represent an entire new federal agency.  Of course, nowhere does President Obama tell us why a new czar is required to manage infrastructure projects.  More importantly, Obama does not explain why the vast federal bureaucracy now responsible for these activities must be bypassed and a new, redundant agency is built.   

Make no mistake: the AIFA Czar position is redundant.  All of the infrastructure projects and tasks identified to be performed by Obama’s new Czar are already the responsibilities of the Senate-confirmed heads of Department of Transportation, the U.S. General Services Administration and the Department of Energy.

Some of these tasks are:

Czars today, with more czars in the forecast

[DumbAss Tanker]

This practice has gotten completely out of hand under Blammo.  He has his czars and legitimate appointees working at cross purposes with unclear priority of mission, access to him, and backing in a manner of disorganized leadership that truly hasn't been seen since the Third Reich, where Hitler set up overlapping and conflicting bureaucracies to prevent any one of them from becoming critical and an unassailable power base from which to mount a challenge to him.  As a few of you may know, that proved to be a bad idea in the long run.

Congress really needs to clean this up and require every executive branch office to trace directly to a cabinet officer or other person appointed on the advice and consent of the Senate, in order to bring this bullshit practice back in line with the responsibilities and accountability intended by Articles I and II of the Constitution.

Enough of this czar crap.  Just, enough.

[Eupher]

Just by the term "czar", I'm brought back to Russia's Tsar Nicholas II and, for that matter, to the Soviets.

I spent a lot of time in an institution that was dedicated to nullifying the Soviet threat. And we're gonna use a term that hearkens back to those guys and incorporate it in whatever administration happens to be in power?

I don't think so.  

[JohnnyReb]

All these czars should be clear evidence that he is unfit for the job...but I suspect that are more on the order of bag men...they take the bribes and then kick back, in cash of course, a certain to Obama without a paper trail to him and others.

Remember his instructions to his people when he took office, "...to not leave a paper trail."

Jusy my thinking.

[Janice]

If Boehner and the GOP had any stones, if they stood on conservative principles ... oh wait ...

[Karin]

The czars were the first thing to enrage me about zero's admin.  I could not understand how all the radical whackjobs were given powerful positions with no oversight.  How can this be in our system of government?  When a committed communist, Van Jones, was installed, I thought the country was done-for.  I wrote desperately outraged letters to everyone whom I was a constitutent for.  Probably sounded like a whackjob myself,  but oh well. 

[CG6468]

Before the emperor in the white mosque, I never believed it was possible to hate someone more every day.

Now it's not only possible, it's probable.

[Freeper]

The more I hear about Barry's bill, the less I like it, and I hated it from the first second he mentioned it.

[Eupher]

The more I hear about Barry's bill, the less I like it, and I hated it from the first second he mentioned it.

Barry doesn't present anything that has merit -- unless it's his resignation.

[Chris_]

Barry doesn't present anything that has merit.

It seems like he goes out of his way to do the exact opposite.  The worse a proposal is, the more you'll hear him talk about it.

[Freeper]

Barry doesn't present anything that has merit -- unless it's his resignation.

Except that would make Joe "Bite Me" president. 

[Eupher]

Except that would make Joe "Bite Me" president. 

Joe is an idiot, and everybody knows that. Barry is less of an idiot and therefore more dangerous.

[Ptarmigan]

How about a Czar Czar.

[CG6468]

Or maybe a Czar Toilet. Not a Toilet Czar, but a Czar Toilet to flush as many times as necessary.

[Janice]

Or maybe a Czar Toilet. Not a Toilet Czar, but a Czar Toilet to flush as many times as necessary.