List of Obama's Czars

GlennBeck.com ^ | 8/14/09 | Glenn Beck

[EGPWS]

This isn't good, however why would the first elected IOTUS even use the title of “Czar” for his unelected cronies and put up with the scrutiny that comes with it, or is the IOTUS so focused that Czar is the only title he could think of?

This administration is amazing in a fearful sort of way.

[upchuck]

Not vetted by Congress, no oversight by Congress, they’re a bunch of loose cannons running loose.

And prolly completely unconstitutional.

How come the Repubs didn’t scream bloody murder when he anointed the first one? Way too late now.

[EGPWS]

Does anyone know who which president created the first “czar?”

Franklin D Roosevelt.

And us "seasoned ones" know how that fart in church went over throughout the decades because of the FDR directives.

[mojitojoe]

Update that list. We wish there were still 32. Try this on for size:

50 Czars! Bypassing the authority of Congress, Barack Obama rules through czars — the beginnings of dictatorship: 1.Herbert Allison Jr., bailout czar, [replaced Bush bailout czar Neel Kashkari, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability confirmed by Senate]
2.Alan Bersin, border czar
3.Dennis Blair, intelligence czar [Director of National Intelligence, a Senate confirmed position]
4.John Brennan, counterterrorism czar
5.Carol Browner, energy czar
6.Adolfo Carrion, urban affairs czar
7.Ashton Carter, weapons czar [actually Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and so subject to Senate confirmation]
8.Aneesh Chopra, technology czar
9.Jeffrey Crowley, [openly gay white man] AIDS czar
10.Cameron Davis, Great Lakes czar
11.Nancy-Ann DeParle, health czar
12.Earl Devaney, stimulus oversight czar
13.Joshua DuBois, religion czar, aka God czar
14.Arne Duncan, education czar
15.Kenneth Feinberg, pay czar
16.Daniel Fried, Guantanamo closure czar
17.J. Scott Gration, Sudan czar
18.Melissa Hathaway, [soon to be] cybersecurity czar
19.David J. Hayes, water czar [a Deputy Interior Secretary and therefore subject to Senate oversight]
20.Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) czar
21.John Holdren, science czar
22.Kevin Jennings, safe schools czar [nominated to be Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, a newly created post; openly gay founder of an organization dedicated to promoting pro-homosexual clubs and curricula in public schools]
23.Van Jones, green jobs czar
24.Gil Kerlikowske, drug czar
25.Ron Kirk, trade czar
26.Vivek Kundra, infotech czar [Shoplifted four shirts, worth $33.50 each, from J.C. Penney in 1996 (source)]
27.Douglas Lute, war czar [retained from Bush administration, married to Jane Holl Lute, currently a Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security]
28.George Mitchell, Mideast peace czar
29.Ed Montgomery, car czar [replacing Steve Rattner, who stepped down amid controversy over his former firm’s role in a possible kickback scandal]
30.Lynn Rosenthal, domestic violence czar
31.Dennis Ross, Mideast policy czar
32.Gary Samore, weapons of mass destruction czar
33.Todd Stern, climate change czar
34.Cass Sunstein, regulatory czar
35.Larry Summers, economic czar
36.Michael Taylor, food czar
37.Arturo Valenzuela, Latin-American czar (nominee) [although this post is referred to as a czar, he is nominatied to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and so is subject to Senate confirmation]
38.Paul Volcker, economic czar number two
39.Elizabeth Warren, TARP czar [chair of the [Congressional Oversight Panel for the Trouble Assets Relief Program; note that Herb Allison is more frequently called the TARP czar]
40.Jeffrey Zients, government performance czar [replaced original nominee Nancy Killefer who withdrew her name after issues with her personal income tax filings surfaced]
Positions established but not yet filled...
41.behavioral science czar
42.copyright czar
Positions being planned: 1.income redistribution czar
2.land-use czar
3.consumer financial protection czar, aka mortgage czar (source)
4.radio-internet fairness czar
5.student loan czar, to oversee a program of mandatory service in return for college money (source)
6.voter list czar
7.zoning czar

[Son House]

30. Urban Affairs Czar - Adolfo Carrion Jr.

Title: White House Director of Urban Affairs Salary: $158,500

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Salary: $158,500, Salary: $158,500, Salary: $158,500 ect...

[Jemian]

I just counted. Russia only had 32 czars and it spanned 592 years (1325 - 1917). We have over that in less than 6 months. Although, each month with Caligula, has seemed at least a century long.

[Wardenclyffe]

Information Czar - Vivek Kundra

[kara2008]

GOP Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia is sponsoring a Czar Accountability and Reform Actof 2009 that would “would bar the use of appropriated funds to pay either expenses or salaries of members of task forces, councils, or similar offices established by the president and headed by a person appointed inappropriately to such a post without Senate advice and consent.”

Here's an article about this by Michelle Malkin.

Support the Czar Accountability and Reform Act of 2009

[TigersEye]

I just started to compile a file on his administration today. This jump starts my research by an order of magnitude.

[arthurus]

We need to call them what they are. They are COMMISSARS.

[arthurus]

They are probably all Democrats or Communists and thus probably have not paid taxes. Elite leftists are Exempt.

[dajeeps]

Thanks for the update. My head was spinning as it was. Now we have 18 more to digg around in.

I bet Obama’s strategy is to overwhelm us with these people so it’s hard to focus on exactly what is going on. There’s just so much abuse of power going on, it’s hard to know where to start.

[dr_who]

Sounds like his shadow cabinet....or just a way of rewarding certain donors with cushy jobs....or a bureaucratic way of paying lip service to lots of campaign promises for a president whose grip on policy isn’t really as good as advertised. People have been complaining that these positions have been sort of borderline extra-constitutional, perhaps. But I wonder if they have much in the way of real power, and if not, what the heck are they for?

[dajeeps]

27. TARP Czar - Herb Allison

Title: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability Salary: unknown Reports to: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Appointed: June 2009 Department that might have handled similar issues: Treasury

• Leads the government's $700 billion financial rescue program in the office of financial stability • Veteran Wall Street banker and interim head of the mortgage-finance company Fannie Mae • Worked at Merrill Lynch for 28 years, reaching position of president and COO • Was CEO of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (2002 to 2008); CEO of the Alliance for Lifelong Learning (2000 to 2002) • Has undergraduate degree from Yale and MBA from Stanford • 2000: was John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign finance chairman • In 2008, donated $2,300 to Obama's presidential campaign

[dr_who]

Methinks it’s the Chicago way.

[444Flyer]

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[Cheerio]

How are the CZAR salaries and office expenses paid for? Does it come out of the White House budget? Where is the line in the BUDGET to cover these buffoons that are outside the oversight of CONGRESS? Congress is the only entity that can appropriate funds - where is it coming from? Someone please answer this.

[kenavi]

Like Generales in the Mexican Army...

[smokingfrog]

It's Nixon's fault.

[musicman]

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