Shooting for the Czars
Van Jones is out. He made his resignation announcement on Saturday afternoon, probably hoping that the 3-day weekend will delay the anti-Obama shockwave of discontent that this will fuel.
I wonder what was the worst about him? The fact he called Rpublicans "Assholes" in a speech several years ago, that he signed a "Truther" petition implying that Bush caused 9/11 to happen as a prelude to war, or that the organization he co-founded targeted Glenn Beck and tried to take him off the air by lobbying Beck's sponsors into withdrawing their ads?
Obama's "Green Czar" is gone... but there are more Czars appointed by "The One" with other skeletons in their closets... Many more.
John Holdren, Science Czar: Believes that forced abortions, mass sterliziations, and putting birth control in the water are viable means of controlling overpopulation... At least he believed that in 1977 when he wrote a textbook that included those opinions.
Cass Sunstein, regulatory Czar: Supports taking people's organs against their will - he thinks that the Opt-in organ donor program should be an opt-out system instead. He is also in favor of allowing people to sue on behalf of animals for their rights... a position that would turn the meat industry upside down and escalate the cost of ranching exponentially, as trial lawyers would be getting a larger piece of the pie.
Mark Lloyd, FCC's Chief Diversity Officer: Wants to secretly re-enact the Fairness Doctrine which was abolished by the FCC in 1987 because it's a violation of the 1st ammendment. Publicly, Lloyd says that he is not in favor of re-enacting it, but he does call for "new ownership rules to promote program diversity". [Sounds like just another way to accomplish the same thing!]
The number of "Czars" that Obama has appointed to various high-level positions, WITHOUT senate approval is more than any previous president.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26781.html
Senator Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, put it best I think:
I wonder what was the worst about him? The fact he called Rpublicans "Assholes" in a speech several years ago, that he signed a "Truther" petition implying that Bush caused 9/11 to happen as a prelude to war, or that the organization he co-founded targeted Glenn Beck and tried to take him off the air by lobbying Beck's sponsors into withdrawing their ads?
Obama's "Green Czar" is gone... but there are more Czars appointed by "The One" with other skeletons in their closets... Many more.
John Holdren, Science Czar: Believes that forced abortions, mass sterliziations, and putting birth control in the water are viable means of controlling overpopulation... At least he believed that in 1977 when he wrote a textbook that included those opinions.
Cass Sunstein, regulatory Czar: Supports taking people's organs against their will - he thinks that the Opt-in organ donor program should be an opt-out system instead. He is also in favor of allowing people to sue on behalf of animals for their rights... a position that would turn the meat industry upside down and escalate the cost of ranching exponentially, as trial lawyers would be getting a larger piece of the pie.
Mark Lloyd, FCC's Chief Diversity Officer: Wants to secretly re-enact the Fairness Doctrine which was abolished by the FCC in 1987 because it's a violation of the 1st ammendment. Publicly, Lloyd says that he is not in favor of re-enacting it, but he does call for "new ownership rules to promote program diversity". [Sounds like just another way to accomplish the same thing!]
The number of "Czars" that Obama has appointed to various high-level positions, WITHOUT senate approval is more than any previous president.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26781.html
Senator Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, put it best I think:
- "The rapid and easy accumulation of power by White House staff can threaten the constitutional system of checks and balances," wrote Byrd. "At the worst, White House staff have taken direction and control of programmatic areas that are the statutory responsibility of Senate confirmed officials."