This is a spoils system corruption scandal as much as it is a power grab. Obama figured out that he could get away with all sorts of things, and is pressing his advantage. Hot Air is absolutely correct in labeling this a “shadow government.”

This czar system provides an excellent network for syphoning off huge amounts of money at a time when the government is shoveling out money — with minimal accountability — at a rate not seen since the New Deal and WWII. Since this money is not buying tanks, aircraft carriers and planes (as it did back then), that leaves plenty of loose cash, doesn’t it? Combine that with deliberate efforts to emasculate the IGs and other forms of oversight, and we have the makings of the largest corruption scandal in the nation’s history.

I had made the point repeatedly in 2008 that the Obama crowd are not merely redistributionists, but also retributionists. Without getting too much into the delicate issue of race and ethnicity, this administration is top-heavy with members of the “aggrieved” faction of American politics, who believe they are owed reparations of all sorts. This provides them with a spectacular and never-to-be-repeated opportunity to loot America and punish its majority for “past crimes.”