What this is about is about the latest craze sweeping up all the beaten dogs that comprise the remnants of the “Republican Revolution”. That’s right, “Czars”. They’re crazy about this and think they have something they can hit back at the President with. I’ll say one thing…they’re crazy stupid.<\/p>\n
Czars in this sense aren’t Russian dictators. They’re not autocrats. What is a “Czar” in the sense that that what are these people they’re so fired up about?<\/p>\n
The term “czar” is an invention of the “media” and a term of “branding” that has been used in place of a person hired reflexively to deal with a particular problem that requires the attention and focus that an elected official or an official that has to undergo congressional approval doesn’t have the time or focus to deal with. <\/p>\n
Corporations hire these people all the time. Their job is to come in as a specialist when a team is underhanded, overworked, or underqualified to do a particular task and get that work done. Most companies have budget room for these people. In fact, I happen to be this sort of employee, hired to help facilitate the release of a product or to tackle a difficult part of a project where I can bring more expertise to the game.<\/p>\n
A “czar” is, essentially, an undersecretary to an undersecretary. They do a very focused task, such as coordinate with the police about drug policy, work with corporations in regards to air or water pollution policy, and other things like that. In short, they’re gophers. They’re underlings to underlings to underlings. They don’t have a lot of ultimate power. Their job is to sit in an office and do paperwork, occasionally make some face time in a meeting, and generally deal with the sort of crap that has to be dealt with, but is too important to risk slinging at an intern or some other unqualified staffer. In that sense, they’re a GOOD thing. Many leaders would just throw that work to interns, and the results can be disastrous for everyone involved if this is just some kid trying to play suck up to his politician boss. Instead of getting in that situation, they find some guy or lady whose written books about the subject, who clearly has a passion about the subject to handle that work with the utmost care, thus probably getting better quality government for everyone and a better bang for your tax dollar.<\/p>\n
Do you honestly think Congress has enough time to stop everything they’re doing every day and approve some assistant to an assistant in some branch of the Federal Government? Absolutely not. Every session, there are piles upon piles of unfinished work because of ridiculous nonsense like this. The position is a reflexive one, requiring that you need to be able to put someone in charge of that work and get it done with the least amount of disruption to everyone else. But if you enjoy paying more for less government, then feel free to make Congress vet every single peon that the Administration hires. They never suggested nor considered doing it during the entire 8 years of the Bush Presidency where he was appointing people who gave him a “whole hell of a lot of money” to these jobs, but hey, you can’t count on a Republican to ever bring up the issue if there’s a Republican President. That’s why they’re out of power right now, by the way, and why they keep losing elections. The American people have them figured out, but right now, they’re pissed because the Democratic Party couldn’t ride right in and clean everything right up for them because the Republicans continued to make a big stink in the room like they do with a new non-issue every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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