A Collectivist Congregation of Czars

How many Czars does it take to screw in a light bulb… or to screw up a country?

It is hard to come up with a number for either question but there is reason to believe we will know the answer to the second soon enough.

President Obama is appointing “Czars” at a rate that is alarming to many of those who still recognize the Constitution as the Law of The Land.

The Constitution makes no provision for Czars and I have not been able to find any published information as to the limits of the power they exercise.

A Czar is a person appointed by the president and not required to be approved by or report to congress. Their power is said to be virtually unlimited. They are empowered to decree “Regulations” that have the force of law without the nuisance of having them debated in congress.

Senators and Representatives are elected to serve while Czars are appointed to rule.

We borrowed the word “Czar” from the Russians who used it to refer to a person with absolute power and no one and nothing to hold him accountable.

Many conservatives are beginning to question the wisdom of allowing so many Czars to be appointed – there are nearly three dozen now – and are beginning to worry that no administration in our history has amassed so much power in the hands of so few.

Czars answer to the President so that, ultimately, all the power they hold is in his hands – 30+ areas of our national life under the absolute rule of one man.

This is not as it should be!

This completely circumvents our system of checks and balances and, if Congress allows it to continue, they will find that they no longer have much to do as it will all have been done by the white house.

I believe the Pundits & Pontificators of the right are concerned with the wrong Russian word. They should give some consideration to “Politbureau”!

WEBSTER’S THIRD NEW INTERNATIONAL UNABRIDGED defines Politbureau (or Politburo) in two ways:
The principal policy-making and executive committee of a communist party…
an organized group held to resemble a Communist Politburo in having a controlling position and absolute power.

I am most interested in that second definition.

Some of the Czars currently holding power within the administration are avowed communists – this is an undisputed matter of public record. I believe it is their intention to rule the country as a politburo rules other countries without regard for the constitution or for precedent and for checks and balances.

I hope that I am wrong but I believe congress should begin an investigation of the backgrounds of the various Czars and try to ascertain what their objectives are for the future of our country.

Copyright Aug. 2009, Doug Todd and Talkin’ Freedom