HEY… WHERE’S OBAMA’S COMMON SENSE CZAR?

Posted by mica on Jun 11, 2009 in Barack Obama, Congress, Culture, LEGAL ISSUES, LIFE, Obamaland, RANDOM, SARCASM & SNARKINESS, Uncategorized, business, political party, politics |

Or… maybe we need a Czar to manage all the Czars… all those appointees not elected, vetted, or scrutinized. If you’ve lost count of the number of Czars we now have… 16, this is from Pink Elephant Pundit:

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: TBA

Let’s talk a little more about this. Know how many Czars Reagan had? One. Bush 41? One. Clinton? Three. Dubya? Four.

Obama has already QUADRUPLED that. And since most of these positions are already covered by Secretaries, the overlap is wasteful.

And some are just inane (seriously, A GREAT LAKES CZAR? What is a Great Lakes Czar? Overlord of the Catfish? I don’t understand). Scariest part? Czars have no one to answer to but Obama. Know how much they are in control of? $1.7 TRILLION. Yeah. (emphasis mine)

Ah yes, but let’s get back to the Common Sense Czar, my personal choice for the next Czar in ObamaLand. What exactly would the Common Sense Czar ’s (hereinafter referred to as the CSC) duties entail? Since Czars apparently have powers not granted under the Constitution and are free to act as they please the CSC’s first actions would be to:

Get rid of all redundant and unnecessary Czars … that’s about 14 or 15 of the Czars that I can see.
Dictate that Congress can no longer pass legislation, like the $787 billion “stimulus bill” without reading it first!
Immediately get the government out of the car business before this becomes Obama’s economic Viet Nam
Insist that all credit card companies cap their interest rates to consumers at 13% or dictate that no bank can charge consumers more that 4 times the rate that they pay for SAVINGS ACCOUNTS! Banks paying consumers 5% for their saving accounts get to charge as much as 20% on credit cards . . . banks paying 2% on savings can only 8% on their credit cards.
Demand that every government agency look at their budgets and cut 10% … no make that 15% . .. cutting 10% is easy, 15% takes a little effort.
Dictate that every member of Congress and in the executive branch take a 10% cut in their salaries, since We the People are being asked to sacrifice and live with less, they should lead by example … Mr. Obama that means you.
Appoint a government Expense Review Czar to go over the expenses that our leaders and representatives are charging the taxpayers. Expenses found to be unnecessary or frivolous would have to be reimbursed to the taxpayers. That means no more trips to see the Pope, or trips to see Broadway show, or fly overs NY City for a photo op, just for the heck of it.
Demand that any member of a finance or banking related committee MUST TAKE a course in economics 101 before passing another piece of legislation. Additionally, they must demonstrate that they could operate a lemonade stand and make a profit!
Demand that every member of legislative & executive branches take a refresher course in political science and the Constitution. They would have to pass a test with a grade no lower than C before they enacting any new legislation!