Jon Moseley
2010-04-04 10:37:35
TO FIONA and others:
The concern about czars is not merely the situation today, but the danger that tolerating the practice will allow it to GROW over time.
So you say that the czars are levers that don’t connect to anything, that is that czars have no power. Actually, the whole POINT of most czars is that they can bully and intimidate government agencies and knock heads to do what they want simply because they are in the White House.
So the fear is that in a moment of cricis, especially, czars would become an alternate set of power centers that would seize control and act like they’re in charge, a la Alexander Haig saying “I’m in charge here” when Ronald Reagan was shot and in the hospital.
