Posted on 05/29/2009 2:12:51 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Name a top issue and President Barack Obama has probably got a "czar" responsible for tackling it.
A bank bailout czar? Herb Allison. Energy czar? Carol Browner.
There's a drug czar, a U.S. border czar, an urban czar, a regulatory czar, a stimulus accountability czar, an Iran czar, a Middle East czar, and a czar for both Afghanistan and Pakistan, which in Washington-speak has been lumped together into a policy area called Af-Pak.
There are upward of 20 such top officials, all with lengthy official titles but known in the media as czars, and next week there will be one more, when Obama appoints a czar for cyber-security who will be charged with improving the security of computer networks.
"In short, America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cyber-security," Obama said on Friday.
Experts say Obama's reliance on czars can be helpful by focusing attention on a big issue and making someone responsible for it, but that it can also lead to turf fights and add another cumbersome bureaucratic layer.
Or, as Republican Senator John McCain likes to say, Obama has "more czars than the Romanovs," who ruled Russia for three centuries.
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Czar is Russian for King.
We don’t need any kings in this country.
We need to get away from this “czar” garbage.
(Started by Reagan IIRC).
“Czar is Russian for King.”
Czar, as is “Caesar”.
As the “czar of czars”, I guess that makes Obama the Shahanshah (”king of kings”)....
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Maybe more specifically started by the press during the Reagan era.
Why don't the AP call Obama what he really is...Communist. Communist spending, communist practices, communist names.
Except Obama is only a false king of kings, which...makes him the Anti-Christ, or a precursor thereof.
(Maybe more specifically started by the press during the Reagan era.)
Maybe so.
Seems he is putting in place a shadow govt right in plain sight..the actual cabinet will be merely figure heads and nothing more by the time HRH The Dear Leader is done.
I seem to remember the Russians overthrowing some Tsars, things didn’t end well for them.
I have no respect for this pinko piece of trash.
So far my Senators are deaf, dumb and blind and I wonder why the heck they even warm chairs.
Why not just get rid of the lot of them and allow King Obama to rule? /s
The Executive Branch is organized hierarchically, top-down, by department (Defense, Treasury, etc.).
The Czars have political influence and power ACROSS the Departments. The addition of the Czars changes the structure of the Executive Branch into a Matrix Organization structure.
For example, Carol Browner, the Energy Czar's responsibility is to ensure compliance with Obama’s energy agenda across the Departments.
Oh, and the Czars report only to Obama.
Barack the Terrible
“Czar is Russian for King.”
Czar is actually Russian for emperor.
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