Twinkle Twinkle, Little Czar

There are about 20 czars now working for “Head Czar” President Obama. These are appointees of the Executive Branch granted much power and accountable to no one except the President.

Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat and the longest serving senator in history, has called this development “dangerous.” He warned, “The presence of the czars gives the president too much power.” He also said the czar system “can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances.”

“These White House staffers” Byrd continued, “are not accountable for their actions to the Congress, to cabinet officials, or to virtually anyone but the president. They rarely testify before congressional committees, and often shield the information and decision-making process behind the assertion of executive privilege. In too many instances,” Byrd asserts, “[they] have been allowed to inhibit openness and transparency, and reduce accountability.”

Czar is a Slavic term designating certain monarchs, or kings. Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, an autocratic ruler who claims the same rank as a powerful Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official. It refers especially to one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917.


Sen. John McCain has joked, “Obama has more czars than the Romanovs,” who ruled Russia for three centuries. These czars report directly to Obama and have the power to unilaterally dictate national policy on their subject area.

For example: Brian Deese is the new Car Czar. The New York Times, not exactly a bastion of right-wing thought, opined, “it’s not every 31-year-old who, in his first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rule of American capitalism.” Brain Deese has an interesting background. As a young college student he hosted a radio program called “Bedknobs and Beatniks.” Later, he worked for John Podesta’s left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress, which is financed by globalist, hedge fund mogul George Soros. Podesta, by the way, was head of Obama’s transition team and most recently a central figure in ABC’s irresponsible fear-mongering program “Earth 2100.” See: http://newsbusters.org/people/john-podesta.

Brian Deese suspended his Yale Law education to work for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. When she dropped out he was hired by Obama. Deese has never had any formal business education or business experience in the private sector, yet this “wonder kid” has been put in charge of managing nearly a half a million dollars of taxpayer’s money per month in this massive auto bailout!

What does politicizing our auto industry mean? It means someone like Rep. Barney Frank gets to call GM CEO Fritz Henderson and intervene to stop the closing of a distribution plant in his district of Norton, MA. It means centuries old case law regarding bankruptcy gets turned upside down. Even the most liberal Justice on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has weighed-in to stop the insanity of Obama’s Chrysler deal that has unfairly cheated the secured debt holders while also misappropriating the TARP funds. Does this make any sense whatsoever?

It makes about as much since as the rest of this czar mania. There is now a Great Lakes Czar who’s in charge of restoring the lakes’ environment. Doesn’t the EPA offer enough regulation already? Right now in California’s San Joaquin Valley, they are part of a Federal action that is shutting down a vital, irrigation canal in an effort to protect a minnow! Forty thousand jobs have been lost already due to these drought-stricken farmers, but apparently this is not enough power for some, who wish to dictate their dreams of an Ecological paradise where everything thrives except humans.

The list of czars also includes: Bank Bailout Czar, U.S. Border Czar, Urban Czar, Regulatory Czar, Iran Czar, Middle East Czar, Afghanistan/Pakistan Czar and Cyber Czar. There’ll probably be a LGBT Czar soon since Obama announced last week that June is “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender Pride Month!” Oh, and can’t forget, there’s a Stimulus Accountability Czar. That is especially needed since the Administration assured us that without the $800 billion stimulus bill the unemployment rate would reach 9%. At last check, it was 9.4% and climbing.

Neal Boortz, a popular, talk radio personality, put all of this government expansionism in perfect context the other day. He said, “government is not made powerful when you spend the money you earn, government is made powerful when they spend the money you earn.”

Don’t believe the seductive, sales pitch of socialism. Look at the results! Pride blinds the minds of the foolish, it also makes for a compliant populace to be ruled over by an endless array of Czars! (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).