Czars

[tombogan03884]

Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Czars:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_09_06-2009_09_12.shtml#1252210704


   Others have pointed out that having offices called "czars" is an odd
   naming choice for a democracy. But czars weren't just authoritarians.
   They were ultimately authoritarians who left their country far poorer
   than their more democratic counterparts, lost a world war, and of
   course paved the way for an even worse system of government. The label
   "czar" thus doesn't historically connect to a model of strongman
   effectiveness -- it connects to a model of strongman failure.

   (Of course, I recognize that czars in the federal government don't
   have even a fraction of the truly dictatorial power of their
   namesakes. But the label was used for a reason, presumably to evoke
   the positive connotation of strong authority that Gets The Job Done.
   Yet the specific strong authority that the label evokes proved to be
   unable to get the job done, at least under anything approaching modern
   conditions -- under any sensible definition of "job," possibly with
   the significant but narrow exception of the job of defeating Napoleon
   -- and unable in a way that culminated with a disaster of historic
   proportions.)

[Ichiban]

And he does love his Czars. 

"Faith-Based Czar" - What's up with that?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26779.html

President Obama's 'Czars'

Afghanistan Czar: Richard Holbrooke
AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley
Auto recovery Czar: Ed Montgomery
Border Czar: Alan Bersin
California Water Czar: David J. Hayes
Car Czar: Ron Bloom
Central Region Czar: Dennis Ross
Domestic Violence Czar: Lynn Rosenthal
Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
Economic Czar: Paul Volcker
Energy and Environment Czar: Carol Brower
Faith-Based Czar: Joshua DuBois
Great Lakes Czar: Cameron Davis
Green Jobs Czar: Van Jones
Guantanamo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried
Health Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
Information Czar: Vivek Kundra
International Climate Czar: Todd Stern
Intelligence Czar: Dennis Blair
Mideast Peace Czar: George Mitchell
Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein
Science Czar: John Holdren
Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney
Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration
TARP Czar: Herb Allison
Terrorism Czar: John Brennan
Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra
Urban Affairs Czar: Adolfo Carrion Jr.
Weapons Czar: Ashton Carter
WMD Policy Czar: Gary Samore

[Kid Shelleen]

He has more Czars than ever before and none of these jokers have to get Congressional approval, neither have any Czars of the past, but no one else has every gotten so carried away.

[Badgersmilk]

http://gunowners.org/a090809.htm