Republicans Demand President Obama Institute A New Unelected 'Czar'

[applegrove]

Republicans Demand President Obama Institute A New Unelected 'Czar'

by Hunter at Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/06/1334674/-Republicans-demand-President-Obama-institute-a-new-unelected-czar

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Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., said Saturday that while he "hate[s] to invoke the term 'czar,'" President Obama needs one to combat the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. [...]

The congressman said the United States needs a "George Mitchell type character" to lead "one central office that's a clearinghouse" to unify the efforts of government entities like the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As Steve Benen points out, Rep. Jack Kingston was the House Republican who introduced legislation banning czars, so dangerous they were to democracy as we know it, and got over a hundred fellow House Republicans to co-sponsor the thing. Senate Republicans were up in arms over it as well, in addition to a great many Republican pundits. But that was then, and this is now, and now appointing unelected czars to oversee things is exactly what Obama should be doing so shut up.

Also demanding a new czar: Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who released a conspicuously bitter statement to that effect. So far there's no suggestion that the "crisis," which Burr asserts to be a matter of "national security," would muster Burr's party to stop blocking Obama's nominated Surgeon General in the Senate, but in the absence of that they'll be fine with Obama appointing an unnominated, unblockable czar instead.




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[valerief]

1. But we're "too broke" for a czar.

[belzabubba333]

2. how about a get your ass in gear, republicans czar. how about a stop blocking everything czar ,

a jobs czar, a help the homeless czar (those living on the streets are gonna be real susceptible to ebola) you want czars I can think of better czars.

[Cha]

3. How about a Surgeon General, Idiot? the gop is using the Elbola crisis to rage and distract

from their shite.

"As Steve Benen points out, Rep. Jack Kingston was the House Republican who introduced legislation banning czars, so dangerous they were to democracy as we know it, and got over a hundred fellow House Republicans to co-sponsor the thing."

thank you, applegrove~

[Zambero]

4. Mr. Kingston should be informed

That no U.S. government position, appointed or otherwise, has ever had the term "Czar" in it's title or job description. There is a Surgeon General position however, one that has been vacated for an extended period due to partisan obstructionism. If Kingston longs for a modern-day Czar, perhaps he should take a one-way flight to Mother Russia and see what Vladimir Putin can do for him.

[gratuitous]

5. Well, who coulda known?

Cut funding for every government program, and one day, it turns out you need a government program to deal with something. But it can't do it's job because it's underfunded, overworked and understaffed.

Although it occurs to me that we've got some government workers drawing a full paycheck right now, who aren't doing a goddam thing. Mr. Kingston? Mr. Burr? Howzabout one of you get off your dead and dyin' ass and go do something useful for a change?

[Major Hogwash]

6. Czar? Sounds too Russian to me! Did the GOP become unhinged overnight or what?

First they wanted to call their new department "Homeland Defense" like we were Nazi Germany . . and then they started appointing "czars" like they were jealous of Russia's past.

Serious people need to be serious about it when they talk about this stuff.
And I mean it.

This time.

[freshwest]

7. GOP response to Obama's initative on Ebola was to slash the funding in half. Will they raise taxes?