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Obama's House of Czars
« on: August 20, 2009, 10:31:27 PM »
This got posted on PJTV:

http://www.pjtv.com/v/2333

The video seems amusing, but then, as the Bard would have it: "some word there was, I would forget it fain; but oh, it presses to my memory."

"The TARP Czar, the former CEO of Fannie Mae oversees how TARP funds are spent".

I had to rewind it a few times, because I wasn't sure I heard it right. What kind of thought process would bring someone to make that hiring choice?
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Re: Obama's House of Czars
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2009, 10:44:25 PM »
What is it with calling them Czars? I'd never heard this before until Obama.
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Re: Obama's House of Czars
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2009, 10:49:42 PM »
Quote from: freakazoid on August 20, 2009, 10:44:25 PM
What is it with calling them Czars? I'd never heard this before until Obama.

The term Czar has been around since the Reagan era, just not the numbers we now a days. There was a Drug Czar during Reagan.

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Re: Obama's House of Czars
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2009, 10:56:48 PM »
Nixon had an energy czar, according to google.  This is not new.
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Re: Obama's House of Czars
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2009, 03:12:02 PM »
Russia used to have Czars, too. I'd be hard-pressed to tell you which were worse: the Czars or the commisars.
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Re: Obama's House of Czars
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2009, 06:36:59 PM »
Quote from: Standing Wolf on August 21, 2009, 03:12:02 PM
Russia used to have Czars, too. I'd be hard-pressed to tell you which were worse: the Czars or the commisars.

Falco didn't write a song about the czars....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Kommissar_(song)
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Re: Obama's House of Czars
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2009, 10:45:53 PM »
It's been around since Nixon (at least, this is going before my time....)

But as I understand it they did not receive the same power as Obamas, and certainly not near the number of them.

Personally, I think they should be booted out.  The Senate should be reviewing and confirming anyone who will be running things.
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