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Democrats Mock Beck's Czar Hunt

Bogus name tars legit jobs, they say, but even some Dems aren't sure

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 17, 2009 8:18 AM CDT

(Newser) – Democrats are fighting back against the anti-czar fervor that has taken hold of the Republican party. Many of the so-called czars these officials insist must be confirmed by the Senate actually already have been, writes Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post. Others occupy positions they themselves voted to create, and others still are random functionaries they’ve decided to label czars.

So the DNC has issued a new ad turning Glenn Beck’s own anti-czar rants against him, pointing out how many of the czar positions he’s railing against were created by President Bush. But this week Democrats Russ Feingold and Dianne Feinstein broke ranks to voice objections about the czars—though Feinstein acknowledged the mislabeling, saying it isn’t “quite fair,” to call the deputy Interior secretary a czar.

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Sep 22, 2009 12:12 AM CDT

osu1067, just do an easy internet search. You'll find there are ZERO ("0") czars, because czars is not a job title and never has been. However, I can do something like call Hawking earth's science czar, etc. and viola, I've made up a czar. But is he really a czar? Is that one or is that still zero? So the answer to your question is go through a list of administration and government position, figure out which ones you want to label czars and there you go: Now, you know how many czars there are in your government. And now you know why Beck is crazy.

riffran

Sep 18, 2009 1:05 AM CDT

HEY I know that song *singing*" DON'T TURN AROUND UH OH..CHOP CHOP DER KOMISER'S IN TOWN UH OH"..

NewserScooter

Sep 18, 2009 12:03 AM CDT

They are in effect Komisars. Czars is a mistaken term.

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Democrats Mock Beck's Czar Hunt