So Many Czars, So Little Time: Michelle Malkin Explains Who Obama's "Special Assistants" Are
On Glenn Beck’s TV show Monday, author Michelle Malkin lamented the existence of the dozens of so-called czars that President Obama has appointed to help bring radical, unwanted change to America. Czars are powerful special assistants focused on specific issues; they are appointed by the president and do not require Senate confirmation.
Vivek Kundra, a convicted shoplifter who tried to evade the police, is now Obama’s infotech czar and in charge of sensitive government-information infrastructure, Malkin said. Â
Health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle was a well paid lobbyist and consultant, but now she may be meeting in secret with health care executives with financial ties to her as she promotes a government takeover of the nation’s health care system, Malkin said. Van Jones is an admitted Communist yet he’s now in charge of the Obama’s administration’s “green jobs” program that has yet to produce a single job.
Meanwhile, Robert Farley of the St. Petersburg Times‘ PolitiFact.com, a fact-checking website, took the show to task for a claim made on it Friday. Farley excoriated Fox anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle, a prominent and accomplished former prosecutor, for saying on the show that if one accesses the government’s Cash for Clunkers website (cars.gov) from a home computer, the government can “seize all of your personal and private” information, and track one’s computer activity.  The claim, which seems consistent with the disclaimer Beck read on air that pops up on the website, is hardly as farfetched as it might initially seem, as Beck demonstrated on the Friday edition of his show. Nonetheless Farley decided to play Perry Mason, preferring his interpretation of the law to Guilfoyle’s. He ruled Guilfoyle’s assertion “false.”
On the Monday show, Beck noted that as a result of the adverse publicity received, the government changed the disclaimer on the cars.gov website. Of course, Farley ignores the fact that Beck helped to generate the citizen outrage over the disclaimer, thereby forcing the government to alter it. Farley merely mentions that the disclaimer was changed Aug. 3 without explaining why.Â
Earlier this year Farley performed a hatchet job on Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) for asserting that between the Obama stimulus package and the fiscal 2010 HUD budget, the radical Alinskyite group ACORN — infamous for its voter-registration fraud campaigns and its support for subprime loans) was technically eligible for $8.5 billion in federal funds this year. After making a series of factually incorrect statements about how certain federal programs work, Farley ruled Bachmann’s claim “false.”
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We need a cheeseburger czar. There is too much fat in those burgers and I need the government to protect me.
The Czars exist for two reasons: (1) To server their Emperor Obama, and (2) to enrich themselves. They have no use for constitutional limits or restraints and for congressional oversight. They represent a concentration of power in the Executive Branch which is unprecedented and dangerous. But then, the entire Obama Administration presents more danger and risk to this nation than Radical Islam. Obama & Associates have accomplished a coup de’tat while we were busy watching ‘American Idol’.
Never mind the Czars, who says Obama has the right to be President. He refuses to show his Long Form Birth Certificate, why? Hes had his attornies in the cost of 800,000 plus to stop anyone from viewing it. The document lists Obama’s parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham, the birth date as Aug. 4, 1961, and the hospital of birth as Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.
So I ask you, is this President really our President or is there someone in office that has fooled us all trying to destroy America?
If there is nothing to hide then he would show his Long Form Birth Certificate and allow it to be Verified. Why not clear this all up if he has nothing to hide.
Go to: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105764 and read all abut it.
Thanks to Michelle Malkin’s explanation of the Czars. Is there anywhere in our Constitution that says the President can appoint Czars to be special assistants? And why is no one protesting, or is it just that the media has blocked the protests. I’m disgusted at even the idea of Czars in America, or are we still the United States of America?
To understand Obama and his cronies we need to understand this one thing: they do not have any use for the Constitution, for American traditions or history, for churches, Bibles, or – in their view – “cherished” but anachronistic ideals and morals.
They have taken the American government hostage and will probably not surrender it except at the point of a gun. They are like the tyrants we have detested and defeated many times over in our history, whether at home or abroad. We need to see them for what they really are and stop listening to their propaganda and lies. We need to rise up and throw them overboard, like tea bags, before 2012 – if not sooner.
I think we need Czar to keep an eye on the other Czars.
Once again, people need to read their history. CZar, is a russian shortening of the word Ceaser. As in the roman emperor.
In this land of freedom, we don’t need Czar’s, who the senate can’t control, the house can’t get information out of, and who are beyond the law. In my opinion, Czar’s are no better than Communist party officials, or KGB agents.
What someone needs to do is put these Czar’s under congressional oversight, and make them answerable to somebody. Or better yet, fire them and make them get real jobs.