Obama to name longtime political aide as 'Ebola czar,' bypassing senior health official | Fox News
President Obama plans to name Ron Klain, a longtime political hand with no apparent medical or health care background.
A Czar by any other name is still a bureaucrat owed a favor.
A Czar by any other name is still a bureaucrat owed a favor.
Public opinion & perception flacks is all they really are
Where's Jefferson's 13th Amendment when we really need it?
It's amazes me the title caught on without negative connotation.
An unelected official, all powerful within his domain, a lord above any oversight except his master's.
Yeah, we need a bunch more of those!
Me too! The name sounds like one of two things:
1. A sinister way of giving one unelected person broad powers justified by some boggyman of the day.
2. A large organization isn't effective at dealing some problem. Poor management leads to finger-pointing and inaction. Everyone's just keeping their head down. The only way to get people to take action is to appoint one person who will take the credit or the fall. That one person will be motivated to take action b/c she can't avoid blame, and everyone else can say they were just following the czar if things don't go right.
So it looks either sinister or inept.
I guess "Fatherland" and "Motherland" were already taken.
(Not that I'm truly equating We with They, but damn!)