Suddenly, they’re czar-struck
[N.b. well-documented data, from 3 months ago, showing that Bush had more "czars" than Obama -- but the right wing had not yet gone entirely crazy back then.]
By Dick Polman, Phila Inquirer, 9/20/09
Inquirer National Political Columnist
The latest fit of conservative paranoia is that Barack Obama, the alien in our midst, seeks to transform America into Mother Russia, crafting a new totalitarian state that will be run by his own private army of policy “czars.” The lunacy never ends.
Yes, the Republican right has suddenly discovered the word czar – roughly 36 years after it was first used by the press as a nickname for Republican Richard Nixon’s in-house energy guy, a Republican named John Love. The word has been popular for decades, in part because, frankly, it fits snugly in a headline. The word actually makes no sense in the American context – after all, the real czars ordered pogroms – but it has become a thumbnail descriptive for the scores of policy mavens hired by virtually every president since Nixon. …
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Posted: December 21st, 2009 under National, Right wing.
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