Obama's 32 Czars

WASHINGTON POST, 7/30/2009, by Eric Cantor - Too Many Presidential Czars Keep Congress in the Dark. "The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States." -- Sen. Barack Obama, March 31, 2008

To say President Obama failed to follow through on this promise is an understatement. By appointing a virtual army of "czars" -- each wholly unaccountable to Congress yet tasked with spearheading major policy efforts for the White House -- in his first six months, the president has embarked on an end-run around the legislative branch of historic proportions. Read more at the Washington Post...

Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John writes, "Nixon was criticized for having an imperial presidency but as I remember, his imperialness was trappings, not czars."