Over at National Review Online, Reason economics columnist Veronique de Rugy points to this list (pdf) from Taxpayers for Common Sense showing that the federal government currently has 31 various "czars"—more than Russia had in its entire imperial history.
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Xeones|7.6.09 @ 3:34PM|#
The Obama administration is a bunch of czarfuckers. There, i said it.
|7.6.09 @ 3:47PM|#
Sometimes I think Reason does posts on Russia just for the ads that get generated. (And if so, I appreciate it.)
|7.6.09 @ 4:10PM|#
Work with me here, people:
If its a federal bureaucrat, the preferred term isn't "czar", its "tard".
DM|7.6.09 @ 4:15PM|#
Our relations with Moscow could be better. Maybe we need a Russian czar.
|7.6.09 @ 4:18PM|#
We need a czar czar.
|7.6.09 @ 4:39PM|#
What percentage of these, like the drug czar, were created well before the Obama administration?
Nicholas Romanov, II|7.6.09 @ 4:41PM|#
"We need a czar czar.'
I'm available. Will work for food!
ChrisO|7.6.09 @ 4:49PM|#
Cue the hemophilia jokes...
monkey on juice|7.6.09 @ 5:11PM|#
"If its a federal bureaucrat, the preferred term isn't "czar", its "tard"."
But we have a tard czar. (cue Marine Band playing "Heil to the Chief")
|7.6.09 @ 5:26PM|#
ZOMBIE CZAR!