Republicans introduce bill to eliminate Czars

[Lief 🗽]

Ah, another genius and well-thought out piece of legislation to create jobs. Thanks, Republican House majority!

[SvenssonRS]

Ah, another genius and well-thought out piece of legislation to create jobs. Thanks, Republican House majority!

Name one thing you people have done in the past two years to advance that goal. Preferably one that worked without a catch.

Although, that said, I do agree that now really isn't the time. They should be spending time on the deficit cuts that pretended they would pass.

[Lief 🗽]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009

[tpfkaw]

Ah, another genius and well-thought out piece of legislation to create jobs. Thanks, Republican House majority!

Name one thing you people have done in the past two years to advance that goal. Preferably one that worked without a catch.

They created jobs for 100 Republicans.

[phk]

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

"If not now, when?"


Obama delayed his promise to reign in earmarks because, "it wasn't as important".


For those of you asking, "is this really important"? What is so pressing that they could otherwise be doing? Fixing the economy is like achieving world peace. There is no magic bullet to do it and spending a few hours or even days to pass a much needed reform doesn't seem like a waste to me or in any way hindering an economic recovery. 

I thought the "czar" thing was stupid in any administration........but do they need to do this right now?

Yes. Czars are only a problem when Democratic Presidents have them and when said Democratic Presidents are effective in getting an agenda passed that the Republicans don't want.

Well, Obama has used quite a few of these people to handle a lot of issues, a lot more then Bush or Clinton. I do think it is wise to reign them in as it is a problem regardless of who is President. 

WRONG

39 used by Obama vs 32 by Bush. Meh.

This bill just strikes me as being a "f you Obama" sort of bill. It doesn't really change things much. Actually, since I hate the drug czar position, go ahead and git-r-done Pubbies.

A 21% increase (7/32 =21%) would count as "a lot" in my book. Certainly not worthy of you yelling "wrong" like some child would, Smash.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I would rather they get rid of the title than make it some sort of confirmable position. A President is going to have a wide variety of advisors with their own staffs anyways, there is no need to call them "czars" or whatever.

Who the hell said anything about confirmations?

The actual bill the Republicans introduced.  From the OP (emphasis added by me).

The bill defines a czar as "a head of any task force, council, policy office within the Executive Office of the President, or similar office established by or at the direction of the President" who is appointed to a position that would otherwise require Senate confirmation.