We’re up to 20.

20 ?

Here’s Betsy Newmark:
Next week we’ll get one to deal with cbyer security. At some point isn’t Congress going to get jealous of its prerogatives and insist that the Senate should have the ability to confirm major appointments to the Executive Branch. They should want the same level of oversight over these appointments that they have over those administrators who go through the normal confirmation process. After all, why should he need someone outside of HHS to deal with domestic violence? Why can’t Homeland Security deal with cybersecurity? And if there is no budget or power for these individuals, are they anything more than just public relations gimmicks? And if they do have power will there be clashes among the heads of the various departments as they clash with czars who have overlapping jurisdictions.

Yet again, this would be a good reason for divided government. I can well imagine that if a Republican president had appointed so many czars, we’d have Democratic leaders, particularly Robert Byrd making a speech a day and planning legislation to limit such appointments. With a pliant Congress, we don’t hear a peep out of them guarding their separation of powers.

Czars do not have to go through Congressional approval and experience no oversight. Its a power grab by Obama that at some point even Democrats will have to say something at some point. How are all these Czars funded anyway?

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