Ranking Democrap says Husseins 32 Czars Unconstitutional
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by Ken Klukowski
Last week President Obama appointed yet another "czar" with massive
government power, answering only to him. Even before this latest
appointment, the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate wrote President Obama a
letter saying that these czars are unconstitutional. President Obama's "czar
strategy" is an unprecedented power grab centralizing authority in the White
House, outside congressional oversight and in violation of the Constitution.
As of last week, Czar Kenneth Feinberg has the authority to set the pay
scale for executives at any company receiving government money (and how many
aren't, these days?). Czar Feinberg has the power to say that someone's pay
is excessive, and to make companies cut that pay until the czar is pleased.
Congress did not give Czar Feinberg this authority. For that matter,
Congress has not authorized any of the czars that President Barack Obama has
created. Over the past thirty years presidents have each had one or two
czars for various issues, and once the number went as high as five. But now,
by some counts President Obama has created sixteen czars, and there may be
more on the way. Each of these has enormous government power, and answers
only to the president.
Ever since this practice of appointing czars began years ago, it has always
been considered possible that they are all unconstitutional. But it never
built to a critical mass to elicit a court fight. These czars were few and
far between, and rarely did anything that seriously ruffled any feathers.
But President Obama has taken this to an unprecedented level, to the point
where these appointments are dangerous to our constitutional regime.
This has become too much for the longest-serving senator in U.S. history to
stomach. Democratic Senator Robert Byrd is the president pro tempore of the
U.S. Senate. Even though Senate rules vest most powers in the Senate
majority leader, the president pro tempore is a constitutional officer, and
third in line to the U.S. presidency (after the vice president and the
Speaker of the House). This office is held by a Democrat, who has been
serving in the Senate since before Barack Obama was even born.
Senator Byrd wrote a letter to President Obama in February, criticizing the
president's strategy of creating czars to manage important areas of national
policy. Senator Byrd said that these appointments violate both the
constitutional system of checks and balances and the constitutional
separation of powers, and is a clear attempt to evade congressional
oversight. (Didn't this White House promise unprecedented transparency?)
And Senator Byrd is exactly correct. The Constitution commands that
government officers with significant authority (called "principal officers")
are nominated by the president but then are subject to a confirmation vote
by the U.S. Senate. And principal officers include not only cabinet-level
department heads, but go five levels deep in executive appointments, to
include assistant secretaries and deputy undersecretaries.
Deaf Power
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You hate America.
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FUCKIN HUSSEIN!
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Yeah no shit !
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