Republicans vote to defund Obama's 'czars' [The vote was 249-171......]

Republicans vote to defund Obama's 'czars' By Andrew Restuccia - 02/17/11 07:01 PM ET

The House GOP approved an amendment to a government-spending bill that would block funding for the Obama administration’s so-called policy "czars,” appointed advisers to the president that have been much-criticized by Republicans.

The amendment, offered by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), specifically targets Obama’s “climate czar” by blocking funding for the assistant to the president for energy and climate change, the position's official title. The amendment would block funding for the 'czars' through the end of the fiscal year, when the spending bill would run out. The underlying bill also includes a provision to block funding for the position.

"I think this sends a strong signal to the president that we are tired of him running this shadow government, where they have got these czars that are literally circumventing the accountability and scrutiny that goes with Senate confirmation," Scalise said after the vote.

Carol Browner, who currently holds the position, announced last month that she will resign, leaving the future of the office in doubt.

"We are going to save millions of taxpayer dollars, but we are also going to send him a signal that he is going to have to hold his administration accountable to the same transparency that he promised, but has unfortunately failed to deliver," he said.

Republicans railed against Browner and Obama’s other policy advisers, arguing they played too great a role in the president’s policy decisions for officials that were appointed rather than confirmed by Congress.

The amendment would also prohibit funding for the director of the White House Office of Health Reform; the State Department’s special envoy for climate change; the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the Council on Environmental Quality; the senior adviser to the secretary of the treasury assigned to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and senior counselor for manufacturing policy; the White House director of urban affairs; the special envoy to oversee the closure of Guantanamo Bay; the special master for TARP executive compensation at the Department of the Treasury; and the associate general counsel and chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission.

Hard to stomach Obama's appointees like onetime WH Communist Van Jones who fronted as Obama's "green jobs czar," and regulatory czar Cass Sunstein, who wants to muzzle conservatives for daring to oppose the president.

Homo-erotic czar Kevin Jennings's job is to insure homosexuals get lots of willing young sex partners---Jennings oversees "safe schools" program and is the founder of the pro-homosexual GLSEN organization. Jennings was involved in the 2000 "Fistgate" scandal in which homosexual adults at a GLSEN youth workshop "guided young teens on how to engage in sexual perversions, including the violent gay sex practice known as "fisting."

Obama's vicious anti-male feminist Domestic Violence Czar, Lynn Rosenthal- Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, supports male castration.

Fat-happy White House promoting "Health food czar" Sam Kass......a comical move even for czarist Ohaha, who has rewarded dozens of cronies with faked-up titles. Kass was the Obamas' personal Chicago cook is "Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives." The Chicago chef's rapid ascension from kitchen help to high-level govt employee was kept secret.

Better eat those Hardee's Thickburgers, Chicago hot dogs and Geno's cheese steaks now.......before they're banned.

ACTION NOW Czar funding to date needs rigorous scrutiny. Czars had to sign off on numerous official documents. Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of deceptive and intentionally ambiguous information contained therein.

RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) may have been violated by generating fraudulent documents to extort taxpayers and steal govt monies.

Repubs should place a hold on all czar documents. Czars that may have stolen or conveyed or destroyed official govt records get 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. L/E should also look at Computer Trespass--a class C felony if access is made with the intent to commit a crime and/or the violation involves a computer or database maintained by a government agency.

Czars need to prove where they spent govt money. Hope it didn't go up their noses . But judging by all the homos Obama hired, rear entry is more likely (/snix).

A STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE Diversity Czar Threatens Free Speech
IBD Editorials | August 31, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
FR Posted 08/31/2009 by Kaslin

Mark Lloyd, a disciple of Saul Alinsky and fan of Hugo Chavez, wants to destroy talk radio and says free speech is a distraction. The new FCC diversity "czar" says Venezuela is an example we should follow.

When Mark Lloyd was appointed July 29 as the chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission, a nation focused on ObamaCare and a deteriorating economy took little notice. But as angry constituents flood town hall meetings and call in to talk radio, a man dedicated to silencing them sits at the right hand of the president. They share a common hero — Saul Alinsky — who wrote the community organizer's bible, "Rules for Radicals." It speaks of confrontation or, as candidate Obama put it, of "getting in their faces" as a way to obtain power, not from the people or for the people, but over the people.

Lloyd has written that we make too much of the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech and the press — for "the purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance." We thought we were democratically governed. We thought we could vote as we choose after a vigorous and open debate. Once the major networks served as information gatekeepers controlling what we saw and heard. Now talk radio, the Internet and cable news have enhanced democracy by promoting the free flow of information and discourse. Lloyd wants to stop all that. (Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...

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Mark Lloyd is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches communications policy and conducts research on the relationship between communications policy and strong democratic communities. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a nonprofit, non-partisan project he co-founded to bring civil rights principles and advocacy to the communications policy debate.

Previously, Mr. Lloyd worked as General Counsel to the Benton Foundation, and as a communications attorney at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, D.C. representing both commercial and non-commercial companies. He also has nearly twenty years of experience as a print and broadcast journalist, including work as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN, and is the recipient of several awards including an Emmy and a Cine Golden Eagle. He has served as board member of dozens of national and local organizations, including the Independent Television Service and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.

He has also served as a consultant to the Clinton White House, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Soros' Open Society Institute and the Smithsonian Institution. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

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