Obama's Shadow Government (One scary article

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A shadow government has been defined as a "'government-in-waiting' that remains in waiting with the intention of taking control of a government in response to some event."

With the Obama Shadow Government (which he has staffed and continues to staff with old Soviet-styled "Czars" who are accountable ONLY to him) the "some event" appears to be a series of events that Dictator in Chief Barack Hussein Obama and his followers have created themselves and brought to bear upon the current—traditional—US government.

Have any of you heard dissent from anyone in the Democrat-controlled US Congress?
We certainly won't hear any from the now almost completely State-run Obama media.
With his now-over-20 Czars whose sole purpose is to control We-the-People and our currently-being-flushed-down-the-toilets way of life, Obama has almost completed the foundational building of his totalitarian regime.  One of Obama's soon to be instilled (again with NO accountability to Congress or anyone other than the new US dictator) is a "Pay Czar" who will determine what We-the-People (beginning with CEOs and then extending to the proletariat-poor [by Obama-design] working class) are allowed to earn.  Big Brother has arrived and he hates all of us—except those who genuflect before him and willingly give him all of their possessions.


Obama's Totalitarian Czars:

Included amongst (but certainly not limited to) the dictator's czars are a "Health Czar" (who will determine who can and cannot receive medical care—one presumes Conservatives will be SOL) to oversee Dictator Obama's Universal Healthcare (which will soon after its implementation provide healthcare for few and eventually no one save the Obama Elite), a "Car Czar" (who is 31 years of age and an attorney who has never even run a small business) to determine what cars are allowed to be manufactured in the USA, a "Great Lakes Cleanup Czar" (in saner times the comment to this appointment would be "He has to be kidding!"), a "Cyber Czar" to determine the content of the US Internet—NOT to check on real terrorists—including who may and may not post commentary (Obama's opposers will soon be banned) and now his "Pay Czar."

The US Constitution is now moot and—via lack of use or importance to the current administration—null and void. In other words, We-the-People no longer—officially—exist.


Tipping point for end of US Republic reached:

The "tipping point" that ends the USA's Republic that many had wondered about has now been reached.  Not one of our so-called "leaders" is really even questioning the usurper to the US presidency.  Either they don't care, are afraid of the dictator and his exponentially-increasing power or agree with him that American citizens can no longer be allowed to be in charge of their country and its policies.  Oh—and for those of you who still think you can vote Obama and his Commissars out of office in 2010 and 2012 respectively you can forget it.  Obama is planning to rule the USA for life.  Once his almost absolute power over us has been attained—and with his current speed that will be VERY soon—the Republic will be officially ended.  Obama has no plans to relinquish power over the USA and its citizens—ever.  He and his cohorts have already—although unofficially—disbanded the US Constitution and rendered it effectively moot.  Soon, its end will be official.  Leftist judges are now ruling—with increasingly wild abandon—against this Constitution. Judi McLeod and Jean Coutu ask in their recent column "End of Live Free or Die Rally end of free assembly for America?"  It strongly appears the answer is "Yes."

When even Russian columnists see the USA as now being a communist country it remains a mystery as to why so many living in it refuse to admit it.  Tragically, it seems that most of these American sheeple will never wake up.... Sher Zieve


Sher Zieve is an author, political commentator, and staff writer for The New Media Alliance (www.thenma.org). Zieve's op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Boston Star, Massachusetts Sun, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Ms. Zieve is currently working on her first political book: "The Liberal's Guide To Conservatives."

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Obama's Shadow Government

Time for a Czar Czar?
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 
By Glenn Beck

Here's the one thing: A Shadow Government is giving the Obama administration unprecedented power with virtually no oversight.

I'll explain exactly what I mean, but first, let me play history teacher for a minute because it's important to understand how we got here.

Our system of checks and balances was designed to protect liberty by ensuring that power could never be concentrated. Yet, over the years, progressives on both sides of the aisle have been slowly chipping away at that fundamental idea.

During FDR's administrations, some executive positions were actually called "dictators" — like the "dictator of steel," "dictator of lumber," etc. The idea was for them to control supply within each industry in order to keep up prices.

Richard Nixon did the same thing, but instead of calling them "dictators" he called them "czars." The first was an "energy czar" who was charged with overseeing the 1970s energy crisis. (And what a bang-up job he did. We are a-OK on the old energy front these days!)

Other presidents have also named czars, but no one can hold a candle to President Obama who has named 16 czars so far — and he's not done yet!

So, what's the problem? I mean, czars can cut through the bureaucracy and get stuff done, right? Right... but who do they answer to?

They don't need to be confirmed by the Senate; they rarely go before committees; they can claim "executive privilege" when asked to testify, and they're accountable to no one but the president himself.

But look at the power we've handed to these unelected, unconfirmed people.

On the low end, you've got the "Great Lakes czar," who has a budget of $475 million. But on the high end, you've got the economic czar, regulatory czar and government performance czar that can oversee trillions of dollars.

In between you've got a "drug czar," "terrorism czar," "urban affairs czar," "technology czar," "intelligence czar," "cyber czar" and six other "czars" — we could really use a "czar czar" to stay on top of.

Could our founders really have been dumb enough to write a Constitution that would allow this to happen? Of course not. The Constitution says that all revenue bills must start in the House and that oversight is one of the most important jobs of the legislative branch — two concepts that are now being shredded.

Besides, if this isn't just a power grab, then why do we need a "health czar" when we already have a confirmed health and human services secretary? Why do we need a "border czar" when we have ICE and a secretary of homeland security? Why do we need a "car czar" when we already have Treasury and Energy Departments?

The answer: Because none of that bureaucracy answers directly to the president... the czars do. Everyone else answers to you. The czars don't.




FOX News Blogs » The Glenn Beck Blog
June 9th, 2009 12:11 PM Eastern
Rise of the Czars
by Web Producer
Supporters of presidential czars say the positions are helpful by focusing attention on a big issue and making someone responsible for it. Critics claim they can lead to turf fights and add another cumbersome bureaucratic layer to government.

A look at how recent presidents have expanded the number of czars:


President Reagan: 1 Czar

Drug Czar
Carlton Turner: 3/12/1985

   

President George H. W. Bush: 1 Czar

Drug Czar
William Bennett: 3/10/1989
Robert Martinez: 3/21/1991



President Clinton: 3 Czars

Health Czar
Ira Magaziner: 1993

Drug Czar
Lee Brown: 6/21/1993
Barry McCaffrey: 3/1/1996

AIDS Czar
Kristine M. Gebbie: 6/25/1993
Patricia S. Fleming: 11/10/1994
Sandy Thurman: 4/7/1997

 

 

President George W. Bush: 4 Czars

National Intelligence Czar
John D. Negroponte: 4/21/2005
Mike McConnell: 2/13/2007

Cybersecurity Czar
Rod Beckstram: 3/7/2008

AIDS Czar
Scott Evertz: 4/9/2001
Dr. Joseph O'Neill: 7/19/2002

Drug Czar
John Walters: 12/7/2001

 

 

President Obama: 16 Czars (and counting)

Drug Czar
Gil Kerlikowske, former Seattle police chief

Energy and Environment Czar
Carol Browner

Homeland Security Czar
John Brennan

Health Czar
Nancy-Ann DeParle

Urban Affairs Czar
Adolfo Carrion, Jr.

Economic Czar
Paul A. Volcker

Regulatory Czar
Cass R. Sunstein

Technology Czar
Vivek Kundra

Government Performance Czar
Jeffrey Zients

Border Czar
Alan Bersin

WMD Policy Czar
Gary Samore

Intelligence Czar (Director of National Intelligence)
Dennis Blair

Car Czar
Steven Rattner

Pay Czar
Kenneth R. Feinberg

Great Lakes Czar
Cameron Davis

Cyber Czar
TBA 


Monday, December 15, 2008
Re: Czars   [Jonah Goldberg]

I do find all the talk about czars fascinating. If you read through newspapers and magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, you'll find that the word "dictator" was used pretty much exactly the way we use czar today (though obviously that wasn't its only usage). "Dictator" had a negative connotation back then, but not solely negative. We had a "dictator for steel" and a "dictator" over at the NRA and elsewhere (and countless notables begged FDR to become a "dictator"). For obvious reasons, "dictator" went out of fashion by the 1940s. The use of czar seems to have filled its place. You can see the appeal as pretty much no one has a living memory of life under the Czars. It has a romantic sound and people don't know its roots in the word Caesar (ditto Kaiser). Americans wouldn't tolerate a "car king" or "car dictator" or even a "car Caesar." But "car czar" sounds both ironic and quaint.

But it seems to me that "czar" came in fairly late (the first mention of an "energy czar" in the NYT was in 1973. First mention of "drug czar" was 1983). Was there a word that came between "dictator" and "czar" in Beltway parlance? I feel like I should know the answer to that.