Here's last night's 57-40 Senate roll call vote on the confirmation of Cass Sunstein to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget aka "Regulatory Czar." Six Republicans voted yes-- Bennett, Collins, Hatch, Lugar, Snowe, and Voinovich. Five Democrats voted no -- Begich, Lincoln, Nelson, Pryor, Webb. Independent...
Read MorePresident Obama's payoffs to Big Labor continue. The union bosses got not one, but two, Cabinet appointees: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. Former SEIU chief lobbyist and Soros-funded operative Patrick Gaspard is White House Director of Political Affairs. SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger serves on the President’s Economic Recovery...
Read MoreScroll down for updates... Bay Area Marxist/Truther/Mumia-supporting race hustler-turned-environmental justice guru Van Jones has resigned from his post as Barack Obama's green jobs czar. In classic Team Obama style, Jones blames an orchestrated "campaign" of "lies and distortions to distract and divide." Get ready for the coming media/left-wing martyrdom of Jones. Never mind his own...
Read MoreThe GOP is finally waking up on Obama czardom. I've mentioned GOP House Rep. Jack Kingston's bill on Czar Reform and Accountability before. Today, GOP Sen. Kit Bond called for congressional oversight on nutball green jobs czar Van Jones: U.S. Senator Kit Bond, ranking member of the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of...
Read More"I got to know him really well."
GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman gushed with praise for Truther/Marxist/race-hustler Van Jones and his "climate change" work in May: She met him at a liberal Aspen Institute event. "I got to know him really well. A lot of the work he's doing to enfranchise broader communities. I'm a big fan of...I'm a huge fan of...
Read MoreScroll for updates... Indefatigable blogger Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit dug up the 9/11 Truther record of Green Jobs czar Van Jones -- and his research spread across talk radio, the Internet, and to the Glenn Beck show tonight. (Update: Hoft reports that Jones's Truther proclivities were showing back in 2002). A slew of bloggers,...
Read MoreMy column last week on Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg spotlighted his declaration of authority to retroactively "claw back" CEO compensation packages offered by TARP recipients that he deemed "excessive." Reuters reports today that His Highness the Special Master of Compensation himself has raked in some hefty compensation packages: The article quotes experts who express hopes...
Read More"Anything is possible."
What is pay czar Kenneth Feinberg up to these days? He's claiming broad, unlimited power to retroactively "claw back" executive compensation paid to employees of TARP recipients. Open sky. L'czar c'est moi. Via Reuters, here are the details of the confiscatory special master's new designs: Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's pay czar, said on Sunday...
Read MoreDissent must not be tolerated. Jeff Poor reports on the left-wing boycott of Glenn Beck's advertisers here. Matthew Vadum connects the dots to Obama's Green Czar, Van Jones, co-founder of Color of Change. Erick Erickson launches a counter-boycott. Michelle Oddis reports on the Hollywood ties. A reader e-mails a link to a Support Glenn Beck...
Read MoreWhite House spokesman Bobby Gibbs says not to worry. The health care czar isn't going to do anything nefarious with the info gathered by the Internet Snitch Brigade. Uh-huh. The Obama bully boys are just going to use it for a scrapbooking project. No biggie. My column today gives you more reasons to worry. ***...
Read MoreTexas GOP Sen. John Cornyn sent a letter today to President Obama asking him to disband the Internet Snitch Brigade run out of the health care czar's office immediately. The Hill has the full text of the letter (read here): The Anchoress reminds us of when the Left went nuts over Bush/Cheney post-9/11 programs to...
Read MoreNot a joke: "LaHood calls summit on distracted driving." Because government doesn't have enough to do or undo. I smell a texting czar coming on...
I met with a group of terrific conservative House Republicans on the Hill last week to talk about Culture of Corruption. Two of the dominant themes from the book we discussed: transparency and accountability. The czar explosion continues to resonate across party lines. As I've reported, it's not just the number of czars, it's the...
Read MoreChapter 5 of Culture of Corruption exposes the shadiest Obama czars. GOP Rep. Jack Kingston has been hammering at the czar explosion and put together a great overview of the overlords on YouTube. Pass this one on:
(Click here for full size) I've been reading about the federal corruption stings in New Jersey with an extra sense of fascination. Many of you know I'm a New Jersey girl. So the kind of local graft and pay-for-play schemes involved in the latest probe are nothing new. My question is -- and gee, maybe...
Read More(Click here for full size) Meet Urban Czar Adolfo Carrión, Jr. He's one of my Culture of Corruption Dirty Dozen collectibles. In conjunction with the book launch tomorrow, my friend Tennyson Hayes (whose terrific graphic art has been featured here since last spring) and I cooked up 12 trading cards featuring some of Team Obama's...
Read MoreCan a population control freak holding the prestigious title of "Science Czar" get away with published musings on forced abortion, mass sterilization programs, and a "planetary regime" to re-engineer society by simply stonewalling? He's trying his best. Last week, I called the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to press Science Czar John...
Read MoreHmmm. Maybe the SEC investigation is catching up to car czar Steven "Chooch" Rattner. He's leaving his post to "return to private life." Reuters has the alert: Steven Rattner is leaving as the day-to-day head of the U.S. autos task force that oversaw bankruptcy at General Motors Corp and Chrysler Group, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...
Read MoreI don't know about you, but the idea of anyone in Washington fuming about fine print while they ram thousand-page bills through Congress that no one bothers to read is, well, triple-snort-worthy: They're going to require companies to be "up front about their products" while they themselves continue to defy transparency, cut backroom de