Rise of the Czars
Supporters of presidential czars say the positions are helpful by focusing attention on a big issue and making someone responsible for it. Critics claim they can lead to turf fights and add another cumbersome bureaucratic layer to government.
A look at how recent presidents have expanded the number of czars:
President Reagan: 1 Czar
- Drug Czar
Carlton Turner: 3/12/1985
President George H. W. Bush: 1 Czar
- Drug Czar
William Bennett: 3/10/1989
Robert Martinez: 3/21/1991
President Clinton: 3 Czars
- Health Czar
Ira Magaziner: 1993
- Drug Czar
Lee Brown: 6/21/1993
Barry McCaffrey: 3/1/1996
- AIDS Czar
Kristine M. Gebbie: 6/25/1993
Patricia S. Fleming: 11/10/1994
Sandy Thurman: 4/7/1997
President George W. Bush: 4 Czars
- National Intelligence Czar
John D. Negroponte: 4/21/2005
Mike McConnell: 2/13/2007
- Cybersecurity Czar
Rod Beckstram: 3/7/2008
- AIDS Czar
Scott Evertz: 4/9/2001
Dr. Joseph O'Neill: 7/19/2002
- Drug Czar
John Walters: 12/7/2001
President Obama: 16 Czars (and counting)
- 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
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Dougie you hit the nail on the head. A few corrections I think are in order. If is not what has happened to our country,it is what is HAPPENING to our country. Obama and his henchmen are to blame and the average citizen is not stupid, but a lot of them were paid to vote for mr. president (acorn) and some wanted to believe the lies obama was reading from his telepromter. Mr. Beck tells us the truth and if you and your socalled stupid average will listen to him, there will be many changes in the next election, if it is not too late. Keep listening America to Mr. Beck and for once, HEAR THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!
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If there is anyone tearing this country apart it is the Glenn Becks and Rush limbaughs, with some lies
but mostly half truths at best. Nobody has exerised “their” right as Fox Network and these very-far-right
wingers over the last several years. (1st Amendment). The word “Czar” is a joke anyway you look at
it, only a Republican can make a word “dirty”. The people Beck calls czar’s probably do not even know
they are, so mark it up to Beck’s Stupity & showmanship. (another Fact)
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SOCIALIST FASCHISTS!!!!! I still can’t believe Glenn Beck isn’t on comedy central yet…
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Fox News Rules! They need all the other network combine to compete with Fox!
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The ignorance of the American Public, in part, can be attributed to at least two decades of text book writers, with increasing socialist and marxist ideologies, gradually moving text book contex in civics, government, history, and geography books to favor socialist globalization. Students are VICTIMS of the socialist-marxist agenda. Texts issued in the last four years are the worst, but the content of texts as early as the 1990’s, even the late 1980’s reflect content redefined by liberal language and opinion. Conservative and traditional language is demeaned, deleted, and de-emphasized, if not entirely left out. Today’s text book content teaches the liberal agenda in the absence of traditional conservative history. Textbooks from the 12th through 6th grade are affected. Glancing through them might not easily reveal their bias. Sometimes the bias is blatant as if challenging teachers to object. Written context is far more insidiously marxist or third world in orientation. Textbooks need to be investigated and the ‘in group’ of California, Texas, Chicago, publishers confronted and their liberal monopoly broken. Teachers are so overburdened with record keeping, individual lesson plans per student, and daily grind, plus concern with KEEPING their jobs, that if they do question the media, that they use in the classroom, they shrink from confronting educational policy. Most of the teachers I have met are not crusaders.
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Glenn Beck Rules!!
Keep exposing the hypocrisy and showing the people just who they are.
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It is not that the current or last president had Czars. It is that some of these Czars are very extreme in their positions. They have claimed to be communists, international socialists, fond of Mao Tse Tung, fond of Hugo Chavez, and they have made some very radical statements. Sure Glen asks questions that nobody else is asking. That’s the problem. There is a serious double standard of hypocraisy in the media. When the last president was in power and the left wrote numerous books about how evil and stupid his was, nobody tried to silence them. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, the opposition is treated with contempt and cited as cry babies. Something is wrong here. You cannot trust the media because they are only supporting their liberal views. I know that if they would have truly investigated him the way they tried to investigate Bush, Obama would have never been elected. We would still have problems, but we would not have a closet international socialist in the White House.
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After reading some of these comments, I now better understand Glenn Beck’s success. He’s appealing to people with no real knowledge of our history or the desire to discover the simple truth. Fear is not the way — knowledge is. And the answers are all out there, you just have to really care enough about the truth to find them. “What does he need czars for? Who’s paying for them? What’s happened to our country?” Jerks! If our country fails, it won’t be because of President Obama or his advisors, but because of the stupidity of the average American citizen. And, the fear and ignorance mongers like Glenn Beck.
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