…shut down Detroit?
…pay their own taxes?
…manage your lives?
…screw in a light bulb?
…etc…etc…etc?
Obama has set a new record for circumventing the Constitution with his self appointed underlings. People that answer to no one, but him.
Yes its true, he was not the first president to do so, and it even started under Preside Reagan with a “Drug Czar”, which was continued under the senior Pres. Bush. Expanded to three under Pres. Clinton, then up to 4 under our last president.
Obama has stretched this up to 16 positions. You can argue the same ol’, same ol’….others started this, its the tact a politician would take. Or you could say, I don’t care who started it, it was wrong then, and it is wrong now, and it has to stop.
A president does not have the authority to make such appointees, even with the best intentions. You destroy the system of checks and balances written into the perhaps most important document written by the founding fathers. The bad thing is this, there are already departments to handle all of this. Its either a case of a politician reacting to something, and instead of enforcing laws that already exist, but insist on passing a new law….OR….it is the President seizing more power for himself and the federal government.
Here is a list of all of Obama’s Czars taken from Glenn Beck’s website.
President Obama: 16 Czars (and counting)
· Drug Czar
Gil Kerlikowske, former Seattle police chief
· Energy and Environment Czar
Carol Browner
· Homeland Security Czar
John Brennan
· Health Czar
Nancy-Ann DeParle
· Urban Affairs Czar
Adolfo Carrion, Jr.
· Economic Czar
Paul A. Volcker
· Regulatory Czar
Cass R. Sunstein
· Technology Czar
Vivek Kundra
· Government Performance Czar
Jeffrey Zients
· Border Czar
Alan Bersin
· WMD Policy Czar
Gary Samore
· Intelligence Czar (Director of National Intelligence)
Dennis Blair
· Car Czar
Steven Rattner
· Pay Czar
Kenneth R. Feinberg
· Great Lakes Czar
Cameron Davis
· Cyber Czar