President Obama may have never met a “czar” he didn’t like and he’s not about to bid farewell to any of them now, despite a budget deal he struck with Republican leaders last week that eliminated four of these positions. The budget compromise that Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid […]
March 26, 2011
The unofficial czar of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren, told Congress last week that her organization is “the most constrained and the most accountable agency in government,” and then repeated similar claims on CNBC Tuesday. If nothing else, you have to admire her nerve. Let’s start with that “most accountable” howler. The […]
October 21, 2010
Appropriately, the thuggish face of the Obama Administration’s auto task force — the aptly named “auto czar,” Steve Rattner — is now up to his neck in legal soup. With charges of financial kickbacks sullying his name, Rattner’s triumphal return to Detroit to promote his tell-all book about his reign over the Detroit auto bailouts […]
April 17, 2011
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