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“There are no czars in America”

posted by Susan Johnson | 11:22am Saturday September 5, 2009

An angry constituent demands that Rep.Tom Perriello tell Obama that there are no czars in America. Obama has over 30 unvetted (by Congress at least) czars, cabinet level positions that Congress hasn’t approved. No one is challenging Obama on this overreach (not the press or the Congress), imagine if Bush had appointed over 30 czar. You’d be calling it a shadow government as well (yes, you would, you know you would).(via)



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JWAT

posted September 5, 2009 at 12:19 pm


A great example of the rather quick death of “democracy” in our country over the last several years. Some would argue whether or not it existed in the first place.



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Robert

posted September 5, 2009 at 3:49 pm


Democracy is not a Reformed Christian “thing,” JWAT. You do realize, Michelle, that the term “czar” in these instances is a figure of speech?



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MH

posted September 5, 2009 at 6:52 pm


I know the use of the word czar in US politics has been going on since at least the Nixon administration. Heck George Bush had an Abstinence Czar!



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MH

posted September 5, 2009 at 6:59 pm


This is hilarious Elliot Abrams was the democracy czar under George W. Bush. From what I’ve found using Google George W. Bush had 29 Czar positions and no president is required to submit their names for senate approval.
So this seems like a complete non-issue.



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Ellie Dee

posted September 5, 2009 at 7:42 pm


Here just might be the difference. None of G.Bush’s Czars were avowed Communists. Secondly, I never heard any of them be racist when they spoke, nor do I believe any of them were in jail at any point in their lives. Nor did I ever hear them call the other party A-holes to impress an equally ignorant crowd. As for the abstinence Czar, sorry to say, Mr and Mrs Jones didnt follow his lead.



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Scott R.

posted September 5, 2009 at 8:19 pm


The people in that audience are morons, and this just proves that there are a lot of very stupid people in this country.
They did vote for GWB twice after all.



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Chicago11

posted September 5, 2009 at 10:14 pm


Elloe Dee: “None of G.Bush’s Czars were avowed Communists.”
So are you stupid or just crazy?
What are you talking about? To throw out unfounded accusations of ‘avowed Communists’ is hyperbolic, incendiary, totally irresponsible and anachronistic-what decade are you living in that avowed Communists are the bogeymen under the bed?
Use some sense, some intelligence, some logic, and update your imagery!



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MH

posted September 5, 2009 at 10:22 pm


Chicago11, I Googled her claims and found it on the Fox website and in clips from the Glen Beck doom bunker. There were some fact checking on some other websites which refuted Beck claims.



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Chicago11

posted September 5, 2009 at 11:18 pm


MH – Thanks. She’s just stupid, then.
PS – are there even “avowed Communists” existing anywhere on the planet? That era is just so over.



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Igor

posted September 6, 2009 at 12:33 am


As Russian and Communistical, I am welcoming of finally realize Obama that tsar is way to be going. Too much nice guy is problem American politicals. Tsar/czar is only way get stupid Amerikans act like adults not babies.



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anonymous reincarnate

posted September 6, 2009 at 1:25 am


“So this seems like a complete non-issue.”
mh, it’s an issue now, because it’s a democrat in office. we never heard republicans whine about bush’s czars.



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cx

posted September 6, 2009 at 6:14 am


Please, Michelle, don’t project your lunacy on the sane people of our country.



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Ellie Dee

posted September 6, 2009 at 8:47 am


Sorry Chicafo 11. His resume and his life, spoke of exactly who and what he is. I didnt call him a Communist, he did.
I would also sugest, a “non issue”, means only that, to those who dont care about. Sorry I cared.



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Les Prouty

posted September 6, 2009 at 9:34 am


Well, thankfully there is one less czar this morning. Good bye Mr. Jones. We’ll NOT miss ya!



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Kelly

posted September 6, 2009 at 11:55 pm


Again Michele can’t tax herself to do a little research. She must rely on Glen Beck for her information. What does the bible say about bearing false witness?
“For one thing, they keep insisting Obama has done something unprecedented. He hasn’t. During the Bush/Cheney years, the White House created new czars for almost every conceivable policy challenge. In the span of about six years, Bush oversaw the creation of a “food safety czar,” a “cybersecurity czar,” a “regulatory czar,” an “AIDS czar,” a “manufacturing czar,” an “intelligence czar,” a “bird-flu czar,” and a “Katrina czar.” It was such a common strategy for Bush that it quickly became the butt of jokes. Newsweek satirist Andy Borowitz suggested in 2007 that the White House needed a “lying czar” to “oversee all distortions and misrepresentations.”
For another, Beck and other far-right Republicans continue to say these “czars” are “not confirmed by Congress” and answer “only to the president.” In Grown-Up Land, that’s wrong — many of the “czars” at issue here were vetted by Congress and subjected to Senate confirmation.
Moreover, some of these “czars” only deserve the title in the most colloquial sense. In the State Department, for example, the administration has an official who works full time on shaping a policy on the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. This hardly sounds outrageous, but the job is usually referred to as the “Guantanamo closure czar.”
Beck has also argued that Obama has more “czars” than his predecessors. That’s largely true. But let’s also remember that some of these new “czars” only exist because they’re working in response to new efforts and/or challenges. Previous administrations didn’t need a “TARP czar” before, because TARP didn’t exist. The “stimulus accountability czar” wasn’t needed before there was a stimulus. The “car czar” wasn’t needed before the collapse of the American auto industry. These are temporary gigs, not a new, permanent layer of bureaucracy.”



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Henrietta22

posted September 7, 2009 at 12:22 pm


Kelly, your intelligence is so refreshing.



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Ty

posted September 7, 2009 at 8:16 pm


idiot. Republican presidents, including your false god, lousy president Reagan, had czars as well. of course, they were white…



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uldwynahun

posted July 9, 2010 at 6:54 pm


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devonnebou

posted July 9, 2010 at 6:56 pm


scenarios tropical early



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