the war on czars. you know, the drug czar, the car czar. of course, republicans don't seem to know there aren't actually any czars in the american government. the term here is used as an invasion of a lazy news media that prefers drug czar to the job's real title, director of national drug policy control. director of national drug control policy. see, that's why they prefer drug czar. a lot easier. in our third story on the countdown, republicans are now leading the charge against the obama administration's appointment of policy advisers, the same kind of policy advisers every administration has had. the right wing's war on imaginary czars, high level policy advisers who do not face senate confirmation has led republican congressman jack kingston of georgia introduce legislation barring any presidential adviser unconfirmed by the senate from joining the federal payroll. mr. kingston joined by an anti-czar chorus, among them senator susan collins along with five other gop senators firing off a letter to the president singling out 18 advisory

car czar, climate czar, and pay czar. all told, some 30 specialized czars.e congressional lawmakers felt like they were cut out of the vetting process. >> the constitution makes it very clear they should be put up by the president and confirmed by the senate. and these czars are simply deliberately sirkm venting that process. >> van jones was president obama's green czar. he resigned after it was revealed he signed a pudition that showed the bush administration allowed the 9/11 attacks to happen and separately, that he used a vulgar term to describe republicans. glenn beck was the first to criticize jones. this after a group co-founded by jones, the color of change, tried to lead a boycott of beck's sponsors. it's led to new scrutiny of other obama appointees. among them, markloid. in 2008, lloyd made these comments at a media reform conference in which he appeared to praise leftist leader hugo chavez. >> he had an incredible revolution to put in place, saying we're going to have this key moment. >> reporter: conservative radio hosts have narrowed in on lloy

why don't we have a czar against corruption, a czar against tax increases, a czar who would look over cost benefits and make sure we're not implementing stupid policy which does not benefit us nearly as much as the cost? >> jack, do you think we need more czars? >> absolutely not. we need fewer. we have upwards of 30, 35 different czars running various policy making decisions of the executive branch of government. these people have not been elected, confirmed or vetted by congress. it's bad news. obama has gotten a slow start with his czars. they're not making a lot of progress. that is the only good news. >> it rubs against the american gain, the czar idea? >> quomption at all. smart people who are experts in their field doing work in the public service that. is totally american. what i like about it is that it is out this and public. i would rather have a czar that i know about working then bch an energy c.e.o.s meeting with the last administration to design energy bills. >> there is no senate confirmation hearing or background checks. both sides of the aisle have finger-pointing si

terrorism czar, the regulatory czar, technology czar, the car czar, and now, the cyber czar!is a d.n.c. ad. i mean, do they know i'm not running for office? it's crazy! by the way, d.n.c. just answer this -- were any of them socialists, communists or anti-capitalists in the bush administration? >> well, the fact is, you know this is getting a lot of attention in the senate, because the constitution actually gives the senate the power of add size and consent. that's where a lot of republicans, including some democrats you mentioned, russ feingold a few minutes ago, are truly pretty concerned about what is going ofnl >> i wonder if they will make fun of russ feingold or feinstein about this because they are against the star czars now, too. >> nancy pelosi said this this morning "i don't know what they passed in the senate? what did they do? they defunded acorn?" that was this morning she said that. what did the house do today? >> they voted to totally defund acorn, to totally ban all federal funds to acorn. it was a stunning turnaround. the house leadership didn't have to allow

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. >> the czars. sean: land of the czars returns. >> i'm here because i want to talk with you about your education. sean: the president takes his message directly to your kids. >> you are doing good stuff. sean: dr. phil is back in the hannity hot seat. all of that plus michael steele, alexis glick, dana perino. a busy hannity starts right now. sean: after his controversial statements and alliances were revealed, green jobs czar van jones was forced to step down late saturday night after midnight. it would be easy to dismiss jones' appointment as a fluke and assume his radical allegiances were accidentally overlooked by administration vetters. that is not the case. van jones signifies the radicalism of this administration and he was appointed to his position precisely because of his radical beliefs. now, the white house itself has testified to this fact. just last month senior obama advisor valerie jarrett told a crowd just how long she had been watching and admiring van jones. let's take a look. >> v

the economic czar, border czar, homeland security terrorism czar, the regulatory czar, technology czarthe car czar and now the cyber czar. bill: all right. here is beck again. so, you know, a whole political ad. >> i don't know if they know this. i'm not running for anything. i mean, i saw that. i was watching tv and i saw it on tv and i'm like what, am i running for office? what is that? bill: but, wait, they want to marginalize you, the democratic party does, because you are doing some damage to president obama. but that was a pretty good ad because bush did have a lot of czars, did he not? >> yeah. if anybody like to do their home work on me i wasn't really a fan of george w. bush either. i just want to make sure the man for change is -- his defense is well bush was doing it. change. bill: change we can believe in. i'm going to have more czars than he has. good, beck. i like that. >> the other side of this is did george bush or anybody else because we have had czars and i pointed this out on the show. we have had czars way back, i believe the first one we had was fdr. some of them h

watch. >> czars are anti-democratic, czars are usually russian, not americans. imperialists, not democrats. the dictionary says czars are autocratic rulers or leaders, that's not consistent with the kind of government that we want to have in america. >> okay. here to make their case on the czar wars, our jason lincoln, political reporter with the huffington post and conservative blogger liz mayor who blogs at liz mayor.com. welcome to both of you. jason, didn't a lot of the previous republican administrations grow and use a lot of czars? >> the first instance i can find of a czar joining a government was in the nixon white house. and yes, the term has been used throughout, throughout -- since then and the bush white house also pointed a lot of persons that they termed czars. i appreciate the definition that lamar alexander offered but we should be clear, a czar is a shorthand that allows the media to express border czar instead of department of homeland security assistant secretary for border affairs, nothing to do with russian imperialism. >> what about that, l

we have got a great legs czar. we have got a border czar -- a great lakes czar. if we have cabinet secretaries, be it under a republican or a democratic administration, why do we need these? >> it is the function of these so-called czars that has changed. in the bush administration, they were more like advisers, and if you talk to the white house, they would prefer that you call them advisers speak with carol browner, van jones in charge of directing a lot of the stimulus for green jobs, nobody knows how to deal with them. neil: it did not work out well for the last guy. that is a good point, and this is a point that i will raise with you, republican or democrat, 32 right now with this president, is there a limit, and should there be? when i had susan collins on, she said, yes, there needs to be a limit, so what is the statute of limitations on czars? >> well, i think the obama administration is testing the limits right now when they put these people into policymaking positions. there was something that i learned about today that senator david vitter is talking a

the land of the czars.esignation of van jones and more radicals popping up every day, we are going to shine a spotlight on the shadow government that president obama has created in this country, so let's take a trip back to the land of czars. all right, me to ron bloom. he is the man president obama has tapped to be is manufacturing czar -- meet ron bloom. back in july, we reported that the president had installed him as his second cars a czar, despe the fact that he had no experience in the automotive industry, and now, he will work directly with the white house economics team. bloom was not subjected to any scrutiny before the other appointment and will now avoid that scrutiny for a second time being we will continue to examine the radical people joining this administration in the days ahead, so please stay with us, and we have been doing a lot of talking about the white house czars recently, but why do we call them "czars "? "? mostly, it is because they do. >> i was asked whether or not they have too mu

been some czars. the question of checks and balances, andnd

the number of czars previous to the 34, 35 czars appointed by president obama, in his first eight months in office, was during the clinton administration. and he had only 10 czars. a remarkable change of emphasis on czardom, if you will. >> yes. you know, if you take a look at the numbers that the dnc put out, one of the things that they do is they count all of the czars that president obama had, as opposed to counting the positions. so if you really want to compare apples to apples here. if president obama is start wig 30 czar positions, think how many can float in and out of those positions. you could well as over 60. >> in other words, they were counting the number of people that rotated in over two terms? >> exactly. over eight years. that's exactly what they were doing, as opposed to the positions. >> how open and transparent the dnc. thank you very much, lisa. lisa sylvester. >>> up next here, is criticism of president obama, is it racist, or is it political? or is it all about public policy perhaps? that's the subject of our "face-off debate" tonight. >>> and a new wave of drugly

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president bush's aid czar. as aids czar, insisted that countries who wanted any of america's aids funding had to promote abstinence and denounce prostitution. that turned out to be very awkward when randall tobias' name turned up on the d.c. madame's phone list. they also singled out lamar alexander and bob bennett back in 2003 when president bush was the one appointing the czars, this was lamar alexander's stance then. >> the president of the united states yesterday in a labor day speech in ohio talked about jobs and specifically manufacturing jobs. he talked about appointing a sort of manufacturing job czar in the commerce department, which i would welcome. >> which i would welcome. manufacturing czar, sure, sounds great. but now that president obama is the one appointing the czars -- >> these czars are an affront to the constitution. they're anti-democratic. they are a poor example of a new era of transparency which was what was promised to this country. >> senator lamar alexander. as for senator bennett, he

we had a drug czar, homeland security czar, etc. but iteally is unprecedented the scope and the breadth of the czars that barack obama has appointed. and by the blogosphere's count there may be up to 44 of them now who have been installed by presidential authority. and in many cases they're completely superfluous. we have a secretary o housing anurban development, why do we need an urban czar? a lot of people don't even know we have him. we have a secretary of health and human services, why do we have a health care czar, nancy deparle, who i recently mentioned? and i think one of the reasons is that the obama vetters got into so much trouble during the formal nomination process that they just threw up their hands or somebody cleverly thought of the idea of completely circumventing it and creating this shadow cabinet. >> host: this e-mail, the problem is hannity and o'reilly don't check facts and promote lies. >> guest: they're as cannibal as anybody else an they know the rest of the fox bashers are going to be on them like white on

czar.f you take that list, the convoys, -- the invenvoys -- pick somebody overseas that will have a lot of stature in the region. if you take those couple have four. if you then take the people that are without any debate confirmed career government officials, who are actually serving in some cases in congressionally approved tasks, the stimulus accountabilities are, earl detainee, that was -- a host: and he had to be approved by congress, correct? guest: he was appointed under bush. that is about 11 people. this may be debatable on these people separately. there is the short-term economic crisis people that have been appointed to meet immediate things that will probably not exist a year or two from now. that would be like the manufacturing star that was also working on the car bailout or the auto recovery czar. paul volcker is almost never in town and is overseeing the advisory board. we have somebody like the white house adviser on violence against women. that is being called the domestic

afghanistan czar, auto recovery czar, car czar, great lakes czar, pay czar, guantanamo closure czar, special representative for border affairs and border czar. so, madam president, i said on monday, as senator byrd said more eloquently, the problems with too many czars. the first problem is the constitutional checks and balances described by senator byrd. the second with the problem is a poor way to manage the government. i was always taught when i was a young white house aide that the job of the white house staff is to push the merely important issues out of the white house so you can reserve to the president the handful of truly presidential issues for his attention. his job is to set the country's agenda, to see an urgent need, advise a strategy to meet the need and persuade at least half the people he's right. he can do that much more effectively if the government is managed by secretaries and cabinet officers. and then finally, czars are antidemocratic. czars are usually russian, not american. czars are usually imperialists, not democrats. the dictionary says czars are autocrati

their is a car czar, a drug czar, and there are more. the significance is that' if thy move to add power to the executive branch -- by having people who are not subjected to not on the senate confirmation, but these people cannot be called back to the senate or the house to answer questions because they can invoke privilege because they are appointed directly by the president, so increasingly, you are seeing is cabinet agencies getting left out in the cold, some of these distant, where most agencies, and the people lack the power of the people in the executive branch who do not have to answer to anybody except one man, the president himself. greta: we have these cabinets with these carved up jurisdictions, and i find it hard that we have to ask somebody. other presidents have done this. president bush, president clinton, president bush 41, president reagan had one, but why is this being handled by different cabinets? >> i think in some cases, it is justifiable. for example, after hurricane katrina, president bush appointed a katrina czar

no one is really sure how you classify a czar.are well aware that the white house is not very excited about calling them czars. the letter said, we need their work history, and details about them because nobody really knows. trace: and you also heard van jones name mentioned. their complaint was that people are just not going through senate confirmation. you could pretty much name anybody to anything. >> exactly. they say he is a prime example of someone they have a great concern about. they say a lot of these people are taking top policy positions. they are worried about some of these people have positions that are counter to our own democracy. they say van jones at one point was a self-described communist. to assemble google search. he will definitely be the poster child for this movement. they say they need to know a lot more about these folks. trace: shannon bream, thank you. more on our top story, the ongoing health care debate. last however, we watched senator max baucus unveil his proposal for health care reform, clearly st

steve: let's talk about the czars. pat caddell. czars go back to hoover.ere for a very long time. nobody has had as many as obama. is this a good idea, effective idea to run government or abuse of power. >> usually it's been a couple of people and then started exploding exponentially, clinton and then bush. it really exploded and now it's out of control. not only out of control but what we just said is we are putting penal in who are not being vetted the thing about van jones i couldn't believe is look to get white house pass in the carter administration i had to have a full fbi field check. nobody checked this guy. you just put him in there. i mean, you know, it's amazing. bill: they have been able to get around the rules somehow because rather than as a permanent employee, it's like a daily hire thing. >> you are running part of the government. in many cases, some cases the should be vetted. >> to me it is an abuse of power not because of the czars themselves. just because of the number of them. if it were a few, that would be different. but i think the

, the regulatory czar, technology czar, the car czar, and now the cyber czar! >> the democratic national committee counted up, there were 47 czars, as opposed to 30 in the bush administration. 47 czars served under president bush. how's that for a precedent? >>> will the senate get 60 members to support the health care reform? that's the big question. we'll talk to a key member of the chairman finance committee, leader of the gang of six, senator kent conrad of north dakota. turn right. what is goin' on ? i got my subaru for the confidence of all-wheel drive. my friends thought that was smart... ( hip music pumping ) my new friends think there's something more. feel the love. ♪ ♪ which one's me - for a cool convertible or an suv? ♪ ♪ too bad i didn't know my credit was whack ♪ ♪ 'cause now i'm driving off the lot in a used sub-compact. ♪ ♪ f-r-e-e, that spells free credit report dot com, baby. ♪ ♪ saw their ads on my tv ♪ thought about going but was too lazy ♪ ♪ now instead of looking fly and rollin' phat ♪ ♪ my legs are sticking to the vinyl ♪ ♪ and my posse's

, the regulatory czar, technology czar, the car czar, and now the cyber czar!e democratic national committee counted up, there were 47 czars, as opposed to 30 in the bush administration. 47 czars served under president bush. how's that for a precedent? >>> will the senate get 60 members to support the health care reform? that's the big question. we'll talk to a key member of the chairman finance committee, leader of the gang of six, senator kent conrad of north dakota. if you're using other moisturizing body washes, you might as well be. you see, their moisturizer sits on top of skin, almost as if you're wearing it. only new dove deep moisture has nutriummoisture, a breakthrough formula with natural moisturizers... that can nourish deep down. it's the most effective natural nourishment ever. new dove deep moisture with nutriummoisture. superior natural nourishment for your skin. >>> here's what's happening. congressional republicans say they will fight a decision by the obama administration to scrap plans for a missile defense shield over eastern europe. the pe

appointing of czars to the white house date back to fdr. richard nixon had an energy czar. president bush appointed the first drug czar. some put the number of czars in this white house at 30, but that's under a very broad definition. a more conservative count would easily half that number. but david gergen says the number is still high. >> we have never seen anything like that before. we have seen powerful white house aides in past administrations, we have not seen this many power white house aides. >> reporter: but he says there's merit to having czars. >> the president does need someone to bang heads together to coordinate a very complicated executive branch. >> reporter: some political observers say expect republicans to push the czar issue. >> it's a great argument for a party that is trying to portray a president as pushing too far, too fast on too many advanced topics. >> reporter: and it's not just republicans, one vocal critic has been west virginia democratic senator robert byrd who began questioning the president's use of policy czars back in february. >>> coming

clinton czars and presidential czars of the past.fensive because of political reasons or are you equally offended -- >> it's the number of czars. every president has had a handful of czars, special task force guys. the obama team is up to 34 czars. to put it in perspective, russia, over a three-year period of time had 18 czars. they have an open door to the president. and article 2 section 2 of the constitution says the president must seek advice and consent of the u.s. senate when they need principle advisers. the administration went around the constitution. >> as a representative of the american people, from the state of georgia, what can you do and what can others in congress do to, at the very least, bring the czarist culture, that we are living in, if you will, and how do you bring the light to that? is there a piece of legislation you could offer up? >> yeah, i introduced house resolution 3226. it's called the czar accountability account. it says czars need to have senate confirmation, in order to get the offices funded. if he

we had a drug czar, homeland security czar but it is some precedent the scope and the brett of the czars that barack obama has appointed and by the blogosphere's count there maye up to 44 of them now who have been installed b presidential authority. they don't have any congressional oversight and in ny cases they are completdly superfluous. we have the cretary of housing and urn development. y do we need an urban scire? adolfo consigliere a lot of people don't know we have him. why do we he a health care czar? nancy deparle, who were rectly mentioned in one of the reasons is the obama bettors got io so much trouble during formal nomination process, they just threw up their hands or somebody offered the idea of completely circumventg it. >> host: this e-mail going back to the show fox news, the problem is hannity and o'reilly bilicheck factand promote lies >> guest: they are as accountable as abody else and they know that the rest of the mainstream media, the fox badgers are going to be on them li white on bryce and a lot of these left-wing organizations that dedicate their lives to thumb

unczardom. >>> "the washington post" reports the bush had 46 czars in 36 czar jobs. new developments in watergate? what john dean found in documents in a book published over 17 years ago is nothing less than the answer to the question, what exactly were the burglars looking for inside democratic headquarters? what exactly did richard nixon want? john dean reveals it exclusively tonight on "countdown." >> i'm not a crook. >>> good evening from new york. the south carolina supreme court this week ordering a health insurance company to pay $10 million in punitive damages for reprehensible decision to rescind the health insurance policy. a teenage college student tested positive for hiv a year after he had taken out the policy. if this there had been any doubt that significant health care reform were needed those doubts have been shouted down and not just by the justices of that south carolina highest court. president obama taking his campaign for health care reform to the university of maryland where he told thousands of cheering college students that congress must resi

czar. if you take that list, the convoys, -- the invenvoys -- pick somebody overseas that will have a lot of stature in the region. if you take those couple have four. if you then take the people that are without any debate confirmed career government officials, who are actually serving in some cases in congressionally approved tasks, the stimulus accountabilities are, earl detainee, that was -- a host: and he had to be approved by congress, correct? guest: i think he was uprooted -- appointed under bush. you go through that, that is actually about 11 people. then there is -- this may be debatable, but there is kind of what i would call the short-term economic crisis people that have been appointed to meet immediate things that will probably not exist a year or two from now. this would be the manufacturing so-called czar, ron bloom, also working on the car bailout. where the auto recovery czar. economic czar paul volcker is almost never intel. that leaves us with seven people that do not ap

bret: some republicans and at least one democrat are taking on the white house over czars. correspondent shannon bream reports the lawmakers want information about the people helping the p president make policy. >> dozens of men and women have been named to top-level policy positions in the obama administration. the majority without any traditional vetting process or senate confirmation, and now capitol hill is looking for answers. >> are these czars advisors or are they policy makers? if they become policy makers^ , then transparency is important. accountability is important and confirmation by the united states is mandatory. >> a number of house republicans have introduced resolutions calling on the p president to provide answers about who these people are and what their jobs entail. congressmen darryl isis went a step farther sending a letter to the white house expressing grave concern that some like former green jobs czar van jones have positions, quote, contrary to the very core of our democracy. white house press secretary robert gibbs said he had no problems with rep

richard nixon had an energy czar and george h.w. bush appointed the first drug czar. of czars in this white house at 30, but that's under a very broad definition. a more conservative count would easily half that number but david gergen who has advise the both republican and democratic presidents says the number is still high. >> we've never seen anything like that before. we have seen powerful white house aides in past administrations. we have not seen this many powerful white house aides. >> reporter: but he says there's martd to having czars. >> the president does need someone to bang heads together to coordinate a very complicated,tive branch. >> some say expect republicans to push the czar issue. >> it's a great argument for a party that is trying to portray a president as pushing too far too fast on too many advanced topics. >> reporter: and larry sabat w.h.o. you just heard there says expect this issue to continue throughout the fall, suzanne, with the van jones resignation fueling this debate now. >> okay. thank you, mary. >>> boy, they are touted by some as an

people are wondering who these 34 or 35r czars are. and we have had one exposed to the extent that he eventually resigned. people are starting to understand more and more that are these czars are being appointed by the president with no confirmation by the senate. and they're beginning to say, hey, how is this happening? what's going on here? how long are they going to serve? do they work directly for the president? who are they accountable to? what if they have some type of job that's under ms. mrs. napolitano: or under geithner or whatever. who do they report to? what's the deal? they report directly to the president. . so we need, really, sunshine on all the appointment, but especially as the gentleman from louisiana, h.r. 3569, it leads to sunset on all these czars. so you know, this is something that the american people are very inquisitive about. i think that because of the number of these czars and because of some of the really communist views and really ultra left wing views that some of these czars have that are being exposed,

quick, get the czars, make them go away, and what did they do? they moved van jones under the surface. he has announced today that he is part of the center for american progress, the soros group. yeah, what a surprise there, so he's underneath the surface. he's still doing stuff, ok. it's not about what's above. it's not about what you can see. it never is with this administration. it's what's under the surface. i have shown you that there are people in the white house that are taking it very seriously and not the way, if you voted for obama, that's fine. but it's being translated, change is different, i'm guessing, than what you thought change would be. people in the white house are taking seriously the effort to fundamentally transform america as barack obama has promised us five days before he was elected. when the president truly believed in that fundamental change the same way that van jones or mark lloyd or cass sunstein view changes, radical surgery that will leave the constitution in a condition where you will not even recognize it anymor

czar, a terrorism czar, regulatory czar, guantanamo closure czar, a climate czar, a cyber space czar, many more. they even had for a while a de facto car czar who wasn't a czar but ultimately he became the car czar even though initially they said there wasn't going to be a car czar. now, the challenge here is that this appears to be an extra constitutional approach. now, the constitution says government officers with significant authority, the principle officers of the government, are to be appointed by the president subject to approval by the senate. now, this has been interrupted with the -- interpreted with the expansion of government even to go five layers down that they're expected to have delineated duties, deputy secretaries, directors of different offices, come up to congressional committees, come up to the hill, if not actually to get approved by the senate but at least to be accountable for what they do. we have it in the government reform and oversight committee. we call in many of these different people who have all sorts of delineated duties. now a clear way to avoid the

and then there's the intelligence czar, the economic czar, border czar, homeland security terrorism czarthe regulatory czar, technology czar, the car czar, and now the cyberczar! >> the democratic national committee counted up, there were 47 czars, as opposed to 30 in the bush administration. 47 bars served under president bush. how's that for a precedent? >>> will the senate get 60 members to support the health care reform? that's the big question. we will talk to the finance the chairman committee, leader of the gang of six, senator kent conrad of north dakota. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. um bill-- why is dick butkus here? i hired him to speak. a lot of fortune 500 companies use him. but-- i'm your only employee. we're gonna start using fedex to ship globally-- that means billions of potential customers. we're gonna be huge. good morning! you know business is a lot like football... i just don't understand... i'm sorry dick butkus. (announcer) we understand. you want to grow internationally. fedex express announcer: trying to be good to your heart? so is campbell's healthy

take a look at this. >> i call it the drug czar. >> please welcome our new drug czar.its tune? michelle malkin joins us from seattle. whether you call them czars or point persons, there are so many of these guys -- no president has ever had more. they are not vetted and we do not know what they do. >> i think that this white house reality check that they have just posted is an indication that it is really getting under their skin. the fact is, it is not just some kind of partisan and noise, which is the term that they always use when their critics speak up. in fact, there are many democrats now -- robert byrd was one of the first to call attention to the troubling constitutional issues and legislative and bureaucratic questions here. most recently, russ fine gold -- not exactly glenn beck there. steve, as you said, it is the fact that there are so many of them that is unprecedented. a lot of these leftist defenders will say, bush had about 20 of them. over eight years. if you actually look at the czars that they point out, most of them were appointed. in this case, it

president george bush had 35 czars, including an abstinence czar.of these czars are holdovers from the bush administration. at least nine or ten have been already confirmed by the united states senate. so i think this is just -- president obama has reached out to get people to come back into government. ambassador holbrook, to help on very important policy issue. afghanistan, the middle east. i think the members of congress should focus on what shethese so-called policy people are doing to help the country and get away from the politics. >> i remember bill bennett, our contributor, and he was the drug czar in a republican presidency. he wasn't confirmed by the senate. >> historically what has happened is when we created czar, an energy czar under nixon and obviously a drug czar, we created cabinet posts after that. bill ended up being a cabinet officer. energy became a department. i just argue that you're really overlapping. a president is entitled to whoever he wants. my issue is not what the senate's issue is. but i think to a certain extent you'r

czar, stimulus czar, sudan czar, tarp czar, technology czar, trade czar, urban affairs czar, war czar, water czar, weapons czar, and now we have a safe school czar. who are these people? and what do they do? is this a shadow government? since we continue to dance with the czars, it would be nice to know who brought us to the dance. and that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: so ordered. mr. boozman: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor keith moreriesons -- morrison as an angel of adoption. keith is very deserving of this honor and recognition because of his work and dedication to finding children from around the world permanent families. working as an alternative since -- attorney since 1984 he's represented hundreds of families throughout the united states both in domestic and international adoptions. he also regularly represents private adoption agencies. he continues his work beyond the walls ever his office. helping start c

czar, border czar, homeland security terrorism czar, the regulatory czar, technology czar, the car czarnow the cyber czar. bill: mr. beck will respond here tomorrow on the factor. and finally check 7, this coming saturday an opera about sarah palin will be open in boston. it's being put on by the gorilla opera company. we don't believe it's going to be complement tri to the governor. if you think about it just having the opera is a compliment as she remains one of the nation's most compelling political people. that is reality check. pinheads and patriots on deck tonight starring jennifer aniston and angelina jolie. quite a pair. right back with p. and p. pothole:h no...your tire's all flat and junk. oh, did i do that? here, let me get my cellular out - call ya a wrecker. ...oh shoot...i got no phone ...cuz i'm a pothole...so....k, bye! anncr: accidents are bad. anncr: but geico's good. with emergency road service. ding! are more than words here. it's personal. i have diabetes. rodney's kid too. so we're so proud to manufacture... the accu-chek® aviva meters and test strips... here in th

domestic violence czar. i go through this list, and we have already got such a monstrosity of a government. why these? >> i do not know if it is simply a question of not knowing how to govern or that they want to raise pigs to another level. you can look it carol browner, for instance -- one to raise things to another level. you can look at carol browner. she is in charge, according to her own words, for policy in the department of energy and the epa, so it seems to me that she is acting as a super cabinet secretary. cabinet secretaries are not truly relevant anymore, and you have to be a czar to have any real authority in this administration. greta: if you have a cabinet- level job or an ambassador, you fill out all sorts of forms, and the senate goes through. there is that scrutiny. we have seen what happens to the people that are not scrutinized. >> the great example is van jones, who was the green jobs czar. apparently, the white house did not do a simple google search to see his background and the assoc

czar, border czar, homeland security terrorism czar, the regulatory czar, technology czar, the car czarr czar. bill: mr. beck will respond here tomorrow on the factor. and finally check 7, this coming saturday an opera about sarah palin will be open in boston. it's being put on by the gorilla opera company. we don't believe it's going to be complement tri to the governor. if you think about it just having the opera is a compliment as she remains one of the nation's most compelling political people. that is reality check. pinheads and patriots on deck tonight starring jennifer aniston and angelina . bill: time now for pinheads and patriots. actress angeline no jolie continues her good work bringing attention to the world's poorest people. ms. jolie was recently on the kenya somali border very dangerous place trying to raise awareness of the problems at a massive refugee camp there she is a patriot. she is looking alarmingly thin in the arms as these pictures show. so we hope nothing bad is happening to miss jolie. on the pinhead front, you have to make the call on this one. jennifer an m

czar, border czar, homeland security terrorism czar, the regulatory czar, technology czar, the car czare cyber czar. bill: mr. beck will respond here tomorrow on the factor. and finally check 7, this coming saturday an opera about sarah palin will be open in boston. it's being put on by the gorilla opera company. we don't believe it's going to be complement tri to the governor. if you think about it just having the opera is a compliment as she remains one of the nation's most compelling political people. that is reality check. pinheads and patriots on deck tonight starring jennifer aniston and angelina gecko vo: you see, it's not just telling people geico could save 'em hundreds on car insurance. it's actually doing it. gecko vo: businessmen say "hard work equals success." well, you're looking at, arguably, the world's most successful businessgecko. gecko vo: first rule of "hard work equals success." gecko vo: that's why geico is consistently rated excellent or better in terms of financial strength. gecko vo: second rule: "don't steal a coworker's egg salad, 'specially if it's marked "t

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