It’s Monday — Time for a New Obama Czar
[Guest post by DRJ]
Today’s contestant is Ron Bloom, Manufacturing Czar:
“In Cincinnati tomorrow, President Obama will announce that he’s appointing Ron Bloom his Senior Counselor for Manufacturing Policy, White House sources tell ABC News.
Bloom is currently Senior Advisor to Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner as a member of the President’s Task Force on the Automotive Industry, named to that position in February. He will remain in that position even while he takes on his new task.”
Thirty-three weeks. Thirty-three Czars.
— DRJ
Thirty-three? Obama really does consider himself the Messiah…
Mike LaRoche (82fa1f) — 9/7/2009 @ 12:09 amBetter than 88 czars in 44 weeks.
It’s nice to know that the United States has a ‘czar’ to help out with ‘manufacturing policy’, since the US has always had such a tough time in the past manufacturing anything.
It can’t be too tough, though, as he still gets to keep his old job running the auto industry.
This is insanity.
Apogee (e2dc9b) — 9/7/2009 @ 12:11 amWhat’s his budget? I think the better way to attack this whole ridiculous czar thing is to show the budgets and then remind people that these czars are spending millions of tax dollars and are utterly unaccountable to anyone for what they do. They are unelected, unconfirmed by our elected officials and unconstitutional.
The czars were always unconstitutional, but this proliferation is crazy.
Vivian Louise (e35449) — 9/7/2009 @ 4:13 amCan we question his patriotism now, that he has repeatedly shown an utter disregard for the legitimate structure of our government?
He has quite remarkably patterned his administration after a now defunct totalitarian dictatorship rather than embracing a “We the People” approach.
Kind of as if he just doesn’t give a shit what the People think.
EW1(SG) (edc268) — 9/7/2009 @ 6:32 amMr. Bloom will be manufacturing czars I guess. Isn’t Obama doing that well enough on his own?
Yes, let’s check the budgets. Van Mr. Nobody Jones had a budget of $33 billion, most of which was due to be sent to political supporters I’m sure.
Patricia (7aaa75) — 9/7/2009 @ 6:53 amIf he worked for Timmah, did he pay his taxes? Just asking. And many in the populace are starting to catch on to this czar crapola – here’s one consituent making the same point to his esteemed congresscritter:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/05/video-constituent-lectures-congressman-on-executive-power/
Dmac (a93b13) — 9/7/2009 @ 7:55 am“Van Mr. Nobody Jones had a budget of $33 billion, most of which was due to be sent to political supporters I’m sure.”
Patricia – But he was a low-level flunky appointee, a nobody with no authority or portfolio according to the meme developing on the left about him being hounded from the administration.
daleyrocks (718861) — 9/7/2009 @ 8:08 amI’ll send a support check to the first politician who puts forth a bill closing this loophole around Senate Confirmation.
Sure, Bush and past presidents had their own czars, but this is just abuse of the concept and system.
Techie (482700) — 9/7/2009 @ 8:14 amJake Tapper sure skated over Bloom’s union ties. Check this out from last February:
That’s the United Steelworkers Union.
He’ll just fit right in.
Is any of this bad? I don’t know; more research is needed. But it certainly follows the overwhelmingly union-friendly path Obama has taken up to this point.
It also begs the question why Tapper made only a passing mention of Bloom’s USW ties. If Tapper wished to conceal that, or play misdirection, a scan of the comments to his post show that nobody is fooled.
Paul (creator of "Staunch Brayer") (784fd8) — 9/7/2009 @ 9:03 amWhere’s Felix Dzerzhinski, when you need him?
AD - RtR/OS! (fad78f) — 9/7/2009 @ 9:13 amHe knew how to deal with Czars.
Any day now, I expect to read in this blog about a Czar appointed to manage the Czar’s.
GM Roper (85dcd7) — 9/7/2009 @ 10:49 amPaul,
Patricia (7aaa75) — 9/7/2009 @ 1:17 pmHave you seen the article on big business/government/union bond. Mr. Bloom is their Renaiisance Fascist dream date.
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