rssGOP Rep Grabs ‘Czar’ List From FreeRepublic
Wednesday, September 09, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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Following up on this morning’s post about Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) calling for a hearing on “44 czars,” I asked McHenry’s spokesman Brock McCleary where that number came from.
“We’re using a variety of sources and finding everyone who has been referred to as a ‘czar,’” said McCleary. “It would be appropriate for the WH to release a formal list.”
In the meantime, McClearly provided me with two sources that McHenry’s office is using to build a czar list: this list from Politico, and this thread from the conservative web forum FreeRepublic.com. The FreeRepublic thread begins with a list from the conservative AmericanDaughter.com, which calls the appointment of czars “the beginnings of dictatorship” and includes several administration officials who’ve actually been confirmed by the Senate.
The FreeRepublic list, and some comments from that thread — which got pretty wild, as is the norm for the site — are after the jump:
- Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) czar, Richard Holbrooke
- AIDS czar, Jeffrey Crowley [openly gay white man]
- Auto recovery czar, Ed Montgomery
- Behavioral science czar, position not yet filled
- Bailout czar, Herbert Allison Jr., [replaced Bush bailout czar Neel Kashkari, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability confirmed by Senate]
- Border czar, Alan Bersin
- Car czar, Ron Bloom [Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury , under Senate oversight]
- Climate change czar, Todd Stern
- Copyright czar, not appointed yet
- Counterterrorism czar, John Brennan
- Cybersecurity czar, position will be vacant on August 21st [upon the departure of Melissa Hathaway]
- Disinformation czar, Linda Douglass [This is a new media buzz since our earlier list, a response by pundits to the White House request for informants: see Glenn Beck and Lew Rockwell]
- Domestic violence czar, Lynn Rosenthal
- Drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske
- Economic czar, Larry Summers
- Economic czar number two, Paul Volcker
- Education czar, Arne Duncan
- Energy czar, Carol Browner
- Food czar, Michael Taylor [a former Monsanto executive, or, the fox in charge of the henhouse]
- Government performance czar, Jeffrey Zients
- Great Lakes czar, Cameron Davis
- Green jobs czar, Van Jones [who has a communist background]
- Guantanamo closure czar, Daniel Fried
- Health czar, Nancy-Ann DeParle
- Infotech czar, Vivek Kundra [Shoplifted four shirts, worth $33.50 each, from J.C. Penney in 1996 (source). His last day in DC government was March 4 but on March 12 the FBI raided his office and arrested two staffers.]
- Intelligence czar, Dennis Blair [Director of National Intelligence, a Senate confirmed position. He is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral]
- Latin-American czar, Arturo Valenzuela (nominee) [although this post is referred to as a czar, he is nominatied to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and so is subject to Senate confirmation. Voting on his confirmation was delayed to clarify his position on Honduras. Watch WaPo's Head Count to track status of confirmation.]
- Mideast peace czar, George Mitchell
- Mideast policy czar, Dennis Ross
- Pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg
- Regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein
- Religion czar, aka God czar Joshua DuBois
- Safe schools czar, Kevin Jennings [appointed to be Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, a newly created post (that does not require Senate confirmation); openly gay founder of an organization dedicated to promoting pro-homosexual clubs and curricula in public schools]
- Science czar, John Holdren
- Stimulus oversight czar, Earl Devaney
- Sudan czar, J. Scott Gration
- TARP czar, Elizabeth Warren [chair of the [Congressional Oversight Panel for the Trouble Assets Relief Program; note that Herb Allison is frequently called the TARP czar]
- Technology czar, Aneesh Chopra
- Trade czar, Ron Kirk
- Urban affairs czar, Adolfo Carrion
- War czar, Douglas Lute [retained from Bush administration, married to Jane Holl Lute, currently a Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security]
- Water czar, David J. Hayes [a Deputy Interior Secretary and therefore subject to Senate oversight]
- Weapons czar, Ashton Carter [actually Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and so subject to Senate confirmation]
- Weapons of mass destruction czar, Gary Samore
Some comments from the thread:
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Oliver Willis, Dee Suhajda and Jamil Smith. Oliver Willis said: Oops. GOP rep calling for "czar" hearings got his list of 44 "czars" from Politico and.. FreeRepublic. http://bit.ly/v99q5 (via @daveweigel) [...]
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
Arne Duncan is the secretary of education, confirmed by the Senate. Sunstein is being held up in the Senate..among other examples. These people(the czar conspiracy theorists) make the Baby Jesus cry.
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
Nothing screams selective outrage like Free Republic…
'Except maybe WND.
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
Do they even know what a Czar is? Did they notice when Bush appointed 35 of them? Do they really think that anything Russian-sounding = Communist, despite the fact that the it was the Bolshevik Communists that dethroned the Czars? Of course not, they also call Obama a Communist and Nazi in the same sentence, even though the Nazis actively rooted out and executed Communists following their rise to power.
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 7:49 pm
Isn't the “Something Czar” simply a nickname or did Rachel Maddow have it wrong?
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 10:51 pm
Not that the “Freepers” will care, but the term “czar” is n invention of the media. If any Congressional wingnut decides to investigate any of them, one would hope that the legislation actually includes their job title, i.e. Director of National Security, as opposed to the word “czar” as it does not actually exist…
On the other hand, it would make it REALLY easy to ignore a subpoena! “But I'm not a czar!”
Comment posted September 10, 2009 @ 7:53 am
The copyright czar, although BUSH had one, does not exist.
There is no “behavioral science czar” planned. It is made up.
The funniest of this bunch is the “Dis-Information czar”. Glenn Beck, as a joke, on his show in early August, made up the title.
Ironic that Beck always refers to these crazy internet lists of czars to make his case, and now a czar he made up as a bit, is on the list. It even names Glenn Beck as the source.
Comment posted September 10, 2009 @ 7:54 am
Oh, yes, and by the way, the actual Secretary of Education, a Cabinet office, Arne Duncan, is listed as the Education Czar.
Pingback posted September 10, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
[...] a Czar? And now there are 44? It seems like just yesterday we only had 30 or so! Here is the most current list of them that I could find. They do seem a bit of a duplication of sorts. Maybe they would welcome [...]
Comment posted September 10, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
I spoke with God's messenger the other day. He told me that the almighty thinks the right wing needs to be secured so all the crazy nut jobs can sit confined their own garbage and leave the rest of us who are capable to have rational and sensible thoughts to ourselves so we can continue to progress and evolve… not gather like witches around a cauldron to spew a bunch of non-sense radical hate-speak, trying to keep the rest of the world in the dark ages.
Pingback posted September 10, 2009 @ 11:54 pm
[...] a Czar? And now there are 44? It seems like just yesterday we only had 30 or so! Here is the most current list of them that I could find. They do seem a bit of a duplication of sorts. Maybe they would welcome [...]
Pingback posted September 12, 2009 @ 9:00 am
[...] than others being circulated by conservatives, the Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel asked McHenry’s office where the number 44 came from. McHenry spokesman Brock McLeary responded with a list from Politico [...]
Comment posted September 14, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
I have been calling these Czars Politacal officers. I am sure he want one in everycommand in the military so they will not reclaim out nation.
Pingback posted September 17, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
[...] seen in this manufactured controversy. She was stunned by a list of “czars” provided by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who, as I reported, demanded that czars submit themselves to congressional hearings before he even had a list of them. [...]
Pingback posted September 17, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
[...] Education Secretary Arne Duncan to head the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (and who has been included among the list of “czars”). His crime: aiming to prevent gender- and sexual orientation-related bullying in [...]
Pingback posted September 22, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
[...] Having procured the scalp of Van Jones, whose job in the White House was to promote green jobs (a terribly nefarious task, I know), Beck has focused his all-seeing eye on the fact that there are people in the executive branch who have been referred to, at various times and by someone or other, as “czars.” Just what is a czar? There’s no definition, because the title doesn’t actually exist. Aficionados of the czar conspiracy have devised lists with the number of czars ranging from 29 to 44, depending on which right-wing blog’s comment thread they’re using as a source. And no, that isn’t a joke. [...]
Pingback posted September 22, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
[...] Having procured the scalp of Van Jones, whose job in the White House was to promote green jobs (a terribly nefarious task, I know), Beck has focused his all-seeing eye on the fact that there are people in the executive branch who have been referred to, at various times and by someone or other, as “czars.” Just what is a czar? There’s no definition, because the title doesn’t actually exist. Aficionados of the czar conspiracy have devised lists with the number of czars ranging from 29 to 44, depending on which right-wing blog’s comment thread they’re using as a source. And no, that isn’t a joke. [...]
Pingback posted September 22, 2009 @ 7:36 pm
[...] sobre los zares, presentó una lista de 32 zares. Un congresista Republicano ha solicitado una comparecencia para hablar de los 44 zares. En mi opinión son menos, insisto en que algunos de ellos están bajo supervisión del Congreso. [...]
Comment posted September 30, 2009 @ 8:29 am
Legal Czar should be Alex McGowin Studer. He's the first US citizen to file petition for injunction against HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius (mandatory H1n1 vaccination) . :)
Comment posted October 16, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
Has anyone actually looked at the backgrounds of some of these Czars. They are far from being communists/socialists. While Obama's Czar government is of concern it should be more from the perspective of how much is he trying to do an end around Congress. I'm sure Herbert Allison for example isn't a member of the socialist party.
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