A Conservative Review of the Obama Administration Part 2 (The Czars)
Posted: Monday, January 18, 2010
by Jim Anderson
Weddings That Last
The number of Obama's czars were a concern early on in his administration. At my last count, I found 32 of them, but there could be 35. There are more than any other administration. Though they have been dubbed "czars" lately, they are really just special advisors that usually don't have policymaking power. However, in this administration, some have been granted policymaking power outside of the accountability of the U.S. Congress. Here are some of the notable ones: Auto Recovery Czar Ed Montgomery. His position deals with issues that would usually be handled by the labor department. We don't know a whole lot about this guy, but when we look at how GM has broken its contract with bondholders, it has set a new precedent in investments. Bonds are now just as risky, if not more, as common stock. This guy's job is to prop up an industry that needs to fail and be reinvented. Our strategy is to prop up poorly performing businesses, which will be a drag on the economy. I suspect it has more to do with political obligations to the unions than it does with what is in the best interest of the country.
Border Czar Alan Bersin. There are government agencies to handle our immigration issues, but this position has existed to deal with overseeing this important political issue. Under this administration, this advisor will be seeking to support the idea of amnesty for illegal immigrants. That seems like a rather simple way to deal with the immigration problem, until you understand how it fits into the progressive strategy. Amnesty for illegals will give them the ability to start getting benefits from the Federal Government. Taxpayers will be supporting illegal immigrants on social programs, which is a part of our government that has already grown too large. This is poised to become a big issue in the near future.
Green Jobs Czar Van Jones. This guy is no longer holding this position, but it is notable because of the fact there are so many different czars that are dealing with the environmental issues. He is the most notorious. Van Jones is also part of the Apollo Alliance, which participated in the writing of the economic stimulus package and he has a background that would have shocked us 40 years ago to the point of extreme anger. In 1993, he was arrested at the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of police in the Rodney King beating. He was also arrested in 1999 in Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization. In an excerpt from a Nov. 2005 interview in the East Bay Express here is what came out. Jones planned to move to Washington, DC, where he landed a job and rented an apartment. While in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" He stayed in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." In 1994, he participated in forming the Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. They held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and advocated creating a multiracial socialist utopia. In 1996, he started the Ella Baker Center. After all this came out, the administration was silent. It was only after it came out that he signed a petition declaring a government conspiracy in the World Trade Center destruction in 2001 that he was removed from his position quietly on a weekend night.
Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg. A new position in the executive branch, which seeks to limit compensation of executives in large companies. An unprecedented role for government to play in a free society.
Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein. This is one scary position in the government when the position is held by someone with the ideals as this guy has. He is a proponent of severely limiting free speech and the media, spying on people on the internet in discussion groups, paying people to spread government propaganda incognito, shutting up anyone who has a "conspiracy theory", wants to repeal the right to bear arms from the U.S. Constitution, and the list goes on.
There are far too many of these to discuss in these articles, but the picture that emerges concerning these special advisors is not a pretty one. We have progressive activists all throughout in key positions that are putting a progressive structure in place that will undermine the U.S. Constitution.
To continue reading about this go to A Conservative Review of the Obama Administration Part 3.
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