Further typifying what’s wrong with “presidentialism,” President Obama sounds like he will wind up appointing a White House “czar” for just about everything this side of hemorrhoids.
It makes a hash of Cabinet government and Constitutional intentions that the executive be accountable to Congress.
The most notable example is Larry Summers as economic czar. And, should his tax problems trip him up as Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Daschle can just become Obama’s health czar instead.
The inanity began with Bill Simon as Nixon’s energy czar, then took off with drug czars, who ought to be shot like their Romanov namesakes.
Back to the seriousness, though.
Obama’s already appointed several “czars,” in the area of foreign affairs, with specific portfolios, including Holbrooke, Ross and Mitchell. I mean, isn’t Hillary Clinton pretty emasculated/defeminized as Secretary of State?
On economics, what happens when Geithner tries to show independence from his former guru?
And, how much more is Obama’s executive office budget going to be because of this?
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