Defying Critics, Obama Names Another Czar After Resignation of Environmental Adviser

FoxNews ^ | 9/7/09

[Sammy67]

President Obama's announcement of his selection of Ron Bloom as "manufacturing czar" follows the weekend resignation of Van Jones, the White House "green jobs czar" who had come under fire in recent weeks for past inflammatory statements.

As one White House "czar" departs amid a cloud of controversy, an undeterred President Obama is naming a new one to advise him on manufacturing, defying conservative critics who have raised concerns about these advisory positions that do not require congressional oversight.

Obama chose a Labor Day union picnic on Monday as the backdrop to announce his selection of Ron Bloom, a member of his auto industry task force, as senior counselor for manufacturing policy. Bloom planned to travel to Cincinnati with Obama for an afternoon announcement at the AFL-CIO event.

[True Republican Patriot]

Remember that OBOZO has NVER don a “BLOOMING THING” in his entire LIFE! No Pun Intended! The POS can’t even find his own Birth Certificate! OBOZO has his CZAR of the TOILET! “REGGIE LOVE!” so why NOT a CZAR of BLOOMING!

[papasmurf]

I have been looking and looking, yet I can’t find anything on their power or scope of authority, their control over money or budgets, not even who they report to or liaison with, if they fall under the protections of the “Executive”, nor how much we are paying them for their Social/Marxist “advice”.

Do you have any links to share?

Thanks

[GeronL]

I am not the Czar watcher. There are some sites and FReepers out there trying to get a handle on them. I thought I saw that some of them were paid pretty well though.

I’ll keep an eye out and get back to you.

[Freedom2specul8]

bookmarked for later

[mojitojoe]

Updated list;

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]
41. Ron Bloom, manufacturing czar
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

[firebrand]

You can see the czars by searching for “COMPLETE LIST OF CZARS” on google. I couldn’t copy the url. This is Glenn Beck’s list as of July 20.

[firebrand]

I see there is an updated list of czars right above my reply. The Glenn Beck list gives more information about each one for those who are interested. Tells which agency could have handled the area, and salary, when known, plus much more stuff about the people themselves.

[firebrand]

See hint below in reply 46. Tells whom they report to, salary, etc.

[papasmurf]

Thanks, that will help with my table.

[Berosus]

Yep, that’s at least twice as many “czars” as Russia had.