Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Obama 32 Czars Flavors

Name the issue President Obama probably has a Czar responsible for tackling the issue. The President has a Energy Czar Carol Browner and Bank Bailout Czar Herb Allison. There are upwards to 32 such top officials, all with lengthy official titles but known in the media by Czars, and next week President Obama will probably name a God Czar, Sex Czar and Hollywood Czar. There are no constitutional requirements that Czars undergo those ridiculous Senate Conformation Hearings. There happen to be liberal experts who say Obama's reliance on Czars can be helpful in focusing attention on a big issue and making someone responsible for it, but it can also lead to turf fights and add another cumbersome bureaucratic layer. Sen. McCain said that Obama has more Czars than the Romanov's who ruled Russia for three centuries. Congress did not authorize or give consent to President Obama to create all these Czar positions. Therefore, ever since this practice of appointing Czars began years ago, it has always been considered unconstitutional. but it has never built to critical mass to elicit a court fight. These Czars a few and far between, and rarely did anything that seriously ruffled any feathers. But President Obama has taken it to a unprecedented level, to the point where these appointments are dangerous to our constitutional regime. Finally. this why the Founding Fathers put into the Constitution that the Senate should exercise there power to confirm individuals who are appointed to the President Cabinet. The Founding Fathers wanted to stop any President from having absolute power over our nation.

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