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Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 7:31:34 AM
CZAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACES
THE REAL POWER IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS UNCONFIRMED AND UNACCOUNTABLE
By MICHELLE MALKIN
So far, czars have been installed in at least 35 posts through
presidential executive orders that require no Senate approval. No
Senate review, no questions. No questions, no problems.
The Obama administration has created a two-tiered government --
fronted by Cabinet secretaries able to withstand public scrutiny (some
of them, just barely) and then managed behind the scenes by shadow
secretaries with broad powers beyond congressional reach. Bureaucratic
chaos serves as a useful smokescreen to obscure the true source of
policy decision-making. Energy czar Carol Browner epitomized the
secretive dealings of these offices when she advised auto industry
executives this month to "to put nothing in writing, ever" about their
meetings with her.
While past administrations dating back to the Nixon era have
designated such "super aides," none has extended the concept as widely
as Obama has. Currently, 35 out of 44 current "czar" slots are
presidential appointments. They are among the highest-paid staffers at
the White House. Most of Obama's key czars have Cabinet counterparts
already in place.
It's not just the unprecedented quantity of White House-appointed
bureaucratic commissars that galls. It's their shockingly compromised
ethics and integrity. Here are three of Obama's most
interest-conflicted, superfluous, and criminal czars and czarinas:
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