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.

[Steely Tom]

I'd say that "defying critics" is a great strategy at this point in the proceedings, Obammy.

[Buck W.]

I’m sure that Mr. Bloom will enable the US auto industry to turn out Trabants even faster than the East Germans did.

[agere_contra]

Manufacturing czar? WTH is a manufacturing czar if not a way of controlling the means of production?

Hitler and Stalin had manufacturing czars (in all but name) - free countries somehow get by without them.

[Tarpon]

I wonder when the Congress will figure out they are being usurped. Hey even Democrats care about their power, which is everything when you are a politburo member.

Notice the new czar has no experience either, just another union thug.

[rovenstinez]

Bloom, is this where the term Blommin´ Idiot comes from? I’d be real cautious going into this job, knowing what happen in the game of political life that surrounds Pennsylvania Ave on it’s game plan to wreck the economy, so they can bring Gov’t control into every sector.

[agere_contra]

America leads the world in Czar-manufacturing.

[AFPhys]

Oh... THIS is going to play well...

[bethybabes69]

The longer Americans let this facade of appointing people into unelected positions of power in the US Government carry on, the more impossible it will be to remove the regime.

It's been said many times looking back at history that Hitler managed to bluff his regime into power, even on an educated population like Germany, right before the German Government was completely usurped by the Reichstag fire.

History has a terrible way of repeating itself.

Ask yourselves, what would happen if there was another 'terrorist attack' on American soil, that took out the majority of the sitting members of Government, except for a planned few? Methinks there would only be the President, his Aides and his Czars left to run the Country . . . .

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Do, re, do, mi, re, ti, la, so....

Oh damn is Obammy tone deaf.

[princess leah]

Pelosi and Reid screamed everytime Bush did ANYTHING without first calling up congress and now this fool has what, 40 czars, and all Pelosi does is grin like the Joker’s sidekick - the botox treatments ARE melting her brain!

[the OlLine Rebel]

"conservative critics who have raised concerns about these advisory positions that do not require congressional oversight."

Honestly, 1 could see this another way.

Uhbama is so incompetent that he instinctively feels the need to surround himself with "experts" as well as bodies to handle what he just can't.

[savedbygrace]

Obama put Bloom in as Car Czar in July, replacing Steve Rattner, whose equity company has been under SEC investigation.

Now he makes Bloom Manufacturing Czar less than two months later? The Obama administration seems to be ground zero for The Peter Principle World.

[RatsDawg]

Is this Obama’s idea of trying to put the Bloom back on the rose?

[dennisw]

Like I said before he got elected ..... Obama will govern like an African style dictator. Copying the ways of his socialist daddy. Obama has spent his entire life copying his absent father. Seeking approval from a daddy who was never even there.

-PATHOLOGICAL-

[FrankR]

"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. "

Coward that he is, he can't run the country without his support team.

This is the guy who will get setting manufacturing "profit" levels, as well as "salaries and bonuses". Another way to say it it, he will be in charge of "unionizing America"...especially fitting since he is a big union dude.

This appointment should give the remaining manufacturing plants that we have the incentive to move overseas, like most of them have already.

"Enviromentalism" is the excuse they use to keep us from drilling for oil in this country and offshore, but if you really study on it, if commiebama manages to kill capitalism, and run our companies and jobs overseas, the only basis he will have for his "power" is oil, coal and energy.

It is said that Colorado is sitting on oil reserves bigger than Saudi Arabia, and we all know of the vast reserves in Alaska and offshore, but logically, I think the left is planning on using those treasures to "rule the world".

What else does he have?

[SunkenCiv]

Van Jones and the W.H. casualty list
Politico | 9-6-09 | Alexander Burns
Posted on 09/06/2009 7:50:58 PM PDT by STARWISE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2333685/posts

Glenn Beck up, left down and Van Jones defiant
politico.com | September 6, 2009 | BEN SMITH & NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON
Posted on 09/07/2009 1:58:14 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2333785/posts

[Flag_This]

Have they released their Five Year Plan yet?

[ViLaLuz]

“Oh da** is Obammy tone deaf.”

I truly believe he is not tone deaf and this latest appointment is to show us that he is “in charge”, not us.

[FormerACLUmember]

A vast army of unelected, unaccountable, and unconstitutional petty tyrants.

Congress is supposed to investigate and vote on approval for them, but Congress has ceased to function. The democrat Congress has given up its Constitutional power and responsibilities, just as it rubber stamps unread vast thousand page laws written by Communist Front groups.