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latimes.com - 3/5/2009
President Obama's czar system concerns some - Los Angeles Times
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Reporting from Washington -- As President Obama names more policy czars to his White House team -- high-level staff members who will help oversee the administration's top initiatives -- some lawmakers and Washington interest groups are raising concerns that he may be subverting the authority of ...
latimes.com - 3/10/2009
Obama's fear-mongering - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — Discuss Article (189 Comments) Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend... the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? Or would you think ... (more) Obama's fear-mongering - Los Angeles Times

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latimes.com - 3/6/2009
A way out of Prop. 8 - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — What if California got out of the marriage business altogether? What if the state merely licensed or... just recognized private, contractual civil unions with all the benefits of marriage, and couples went to the religious or private institution of their ... (more) A way out of Prop. 8 - Los Angeles Times
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latimes.com - 3/5/2009
President Obama's czar system concerns some
— latimes.com — He has 'super aides' for healthcare, the economy, energy and urban issues, with more to come --... prompting some lawmakers and groups to worry that he may be concentrating power and bypassing Congress. >  ... (more) President Obama's czar system concerns some

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Newspaper Roundup for Mar. 5, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines — Home News National CNSNews.com Newspaper Roundup for Mar. 5, 2009 Thursday, March 05, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor BBC: Venezuela seizes US rice producer Houston Chronicle: NASA projects too long, too costly, GAO says House hearing set for Thursday Politico: McConnell: No gov't health insurance Los Angeles Times: President Obama's czar system of super aides concerns some Boston Globe: Battle looms on White House authority ACLU worries that Bush views on power linger Jerusalem Post: ...

Around the Web in 80 Seconds, 03.05.09
The Latest on Air America — ... , because it can't turn just yet against Rush "Icarus" Limbaugh. Obama's Tzar system of super-aides has come under scrutiny as a backdoor approach to jamming desired programs into action while bypassing Congress.   To counter the stranglehold kosher salt has on America, a retired barber has come up with ...

May the Lord bless and keep the czars … far away from us!
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... the two act in balance to keep the worst of either extreme from happening, but in times of turmoil, the efficiency impulse usually overwhelms accountability.  This leads to dumb proposals to create “czars” on particular policy, people who have plenary power to enforce policy with almost no oversight.  Usually, the latter gets promoted as a feature rather than explained as a bug. And now, we seem to have an entire executive branch comprised of czars of one sort or another.  The Los Angeles Times reports that this impulse towards autocracy worries more than just a few ...

Obama’s New Era Of Czars And Serfs
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — LA Times: President Obama’s czar system concerns some He has ’super aides’ for healthcare, the economy, energy and urban issues, with more to come — prompting some lawmakers and groups to worry that he may be concentrating power and bypassing Congress. By Tom Hamburger and Christi Parsons Reporting from Washington — As President Obama names more policy czars to his White House team — high-level staff members who will help oversee the administration’s top initiatives — ...

Obama’s massive staff of “czars” centralizes too much Presidential power, bypassing Congress
Flopping Aces — ... Tom Hamburger and Christi Parsons from the LA Times has picked up the ball… tho late… and taking it further down the field with their article today, President Obama’s czar system concerns some. ...

Oba-Czar Alert: Nancy DeParle
Riehl World View — ... Hmm. Does Obama want to have his czars and make America eat it, too? By appointing them as czars they get to duck the confirmation process. It looks to me as though some of this below might have made for some interesting discussion, wouldn't you agree? Meet the head of Obama's WH Health Reform Office, Nancy DeParle ... and her portfolio. ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/6/2009
Gates of Vienna — ... Obama Subverting Authority of Congress? [Comments from JD: Didn’t this ‘czar’ type structure exist in the communist structure?] ‘Czar’ system raises concerns about concentrating too much power in presidency He has ‘super aides’ for healthcare, the economy, energy and urban issues, with more to come — prompting some lawmakers and groups to worry that he may be concentrating power and bypassing Congress. Reporting from Washington — As President Obama names more policy czars to his White House ...

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