The Rise of the Fourth Branch of Government

Washington Post ^ | May 24th, 2013 | Jonathan Turley

[MinuteGal]

On several occasions since Obama stole office I've seen a list of his 30-40 (?) appointed czars along with their scary backgrounds and their duties.

Yet I've never seen a list of their salaries. Does anyone have such a list?

It would be interesting. These are patronage jobs which are filled with the most socialist, sleazy and questionable people imagineable.

Or are their salaries a state secret? With Obama, everything corrupt is possible, and usually - probable.

Leni

[Jacquerie]

Well, I am under no illusions. There are plenty who think they have “right” to vote for Senators and El Presidente.

I wouldn't be harping on this that much at FR if I didn't think Mark Levin was winding up to propose the same.

[Jacquerie]

IIRC, FDR, who signed the bill that granted statutory recognition of labor unions, thought it was insane to allow unionization of government workers.

[OneWingedShark]

Ideally the 17th Amendment gets repealed plus make a Senate term 4 years

Nah. Don't alter the term-length, just add a second section prohibiting consecutive terms. {That way a state could appoint a previous good senator if the next one is bad, and it would prevent them from staying in office and building political empires.}

[VRW Conspirator]

I’d suggest reading a few more of Turley’s article. He’s not you typical WaPo barking moonbat leftist

Fair enough.

[dennisw]

Good idea...No consecutive terms. We can dream can’t we? For a return to Federal sanity

[piasa]

bump since it’s relevant today