Only one new czar in the past couple weeks, who is actually a retread czar, but The Emperor continues to bypass Senate confirmation using recess appointments. Three of those recently including the rationing, socialist new Medicare chief.
Obama bypasses Senate for new Medicare chief
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., whose committee would have held Berwick's confirmation hearing, also said he was troubled by the recess appointment. "Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power," said Baucus. Berwick was nominated in April, and Finance Committee staff was still at work on the vetting process it undertakes prior to scheduling a confirmation hearing.
The Elite Turn Against Obama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/8874_aspenideasfestivalobamalosessupportofnationseliteThomas Sowell: Santa and Frank
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/07/06/santa_and_frankExcerpt:
People who remember the old comic strip "Peanuts" will recall an often repeated situation where Lucy offers to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Then, as Charlie coming running up to kick it, Lucy snatches away the ball and Charlie Brown loses his balance and goes crashing on his backside.
The reason this same scene remained funny, despite how often it was repeated, is that in the later repetitions Charlie Brown would express suspicion at Lucy, recalling how she had tricked him before. She would then come up with some claim that she wasn't going to do that any more-- and of course she did.
People who remember the old comic strip "Peanuts" will recall an often repeated situation where Lucy offers to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Then, as Charlie coming running up to kick it, Lucy snatches away the ball and Charlie Brown loses his balance and goes crashing on his backside.
The reason this same scene remained funny, despite how often it was repeated, is that in the later repetitions Charlie Brown would express suspicion at Lucy, recalling how she had tricked him before. She would then come up with some claim that she wasn't going to do that any more-- and of course she did.
There is a similar routine that has been repeated many times in Washington, over the years, with the Democrats playing Lucy and Republicans playing Charlie Brown.
It goes like this: Democrats start spending money wildly, handing out goodies to a wide range of people who they want to vote for them, while Republicans complain about deficits and the national debt. Then, when the public becomes alarmed about the debts that are piling up, the Democrats get the Republicans to vote for higher taxes to deal with the debt crisis, in the name of "fiscal responsibility."...
Obama to create 'Gulf recovery czar': spokesman
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hdmuVvf0q4Sy4YmSZyVWUvq0K4jg
Auto czar Montgomery resigns for post at Georgetown University
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100615/BIZ/6150366/1001
SEC seeks to ban former 'auto czar' from Wall St. activities for up to 3 years
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/02/AR2010060204644.html
Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/27/counterterror-adviser-defends-jihad-legitimate-tenet-islam/
Cal Thomas: Sinking Climate Change
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/06/03/sinking_climate_change
Wikipedia's list of executive branch czars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars
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