Limbaugh: "Let's go back and compare [pay czar] to Nazi Germany"; "Hitler had a labor czar"
August 10, 2009 3:03 pm ET
From the August 10th edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Rush Limbaugh:
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And I thought the populist rage about big companies spending tax payer money willy nilly was a sticking point for you guys? Or do you think the government shouldn't watch over our billions of dollars we lent out? I forget which position you take on a daily basis Rush.
WMD Czar
War Czar
Drug Czar
Cybersecurity Czar
Katrina Czar
AIDS Czar
Faith Based Czar
Bird Flu Czar
Manufacturing Czar
Copyright Czar
Intelligence Czar
9/11 Czar
TARP Czar
Domestic Policy Czar
Regulatory Czar
Health IT Czar
Abstinence Czar
Mine Safety Czar
Latin American Czar
WTO Health Czar
Corruption Czar
Health Czar
And so on, and so forth.
Donald E. Powell.
Bush’s Czar to Rebuild Gulf Coast (i.e. Katrina Czar)
John P. Walters.
Bush's Drug Czar
Karen Hughes.
Bush's Public Diplomacy Czar
Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute.
Bush's 'War Czar'
Randall Tobias.
Bush's AIDS Czar
Dr. Mark Dybul.
Bush's other AIDS Czar
Richard Stickler.
Bush's Mine Safety Czar
John Negroponte.
Bush's Intelligence Czar
Otto Reich.
Bush's Latin America czar
He says "Hi", btw ;-)
None of the positions below were given the term "Czar", the press may have called it a czar or nicknamed, but not the title.
Donald E. Powell - was the head of the FDIC, a position that has been around since 1933 - Presidential Nomination: Donald E. Powell: Chair, Board of Directors, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: appointed April 18, 2001; nomination sent to Senate May 22, 2002; confirmed by Senate July 12, 2001. So he was already in a job that was confirmed by the Senate
John P. Waters - The office of Director of National Drug Control Policy (a former cabinet level) is colloquially known as the "Drug Czar", a term first used in the media by then-Senator Joe Biden in October 1982 - again must be confirmed by the Senate
Karen Hughes On March 14, 2005, Bush announced his intention to nominate Hughes for the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy with the rank of ambassador — a job focused on changing foreigners' perceptions about America. The Senate confirmed her nomination in July 2005
Lt. Gen Douglas Lute - On June 28, 2007, the Senate confirmed Lute to serve as the Deputy National Security Advisor also known as the "War Czar"
Randall Tobias - President George W. Bush nominated Tobias to be the first United States Global AIDS Coordinator on July 2, 2003. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 3, 2003, and sworn in on October 6, 2003
Richard E. Stickler - has been the acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) since October 16, 2006. Despite resistance from the Senate, and with the nomination being returned twice to his desk unaffirmed, President Bush later appointed Stickler as a recess appointment in October 2006
John Negroponte - On February 17, 2005, President George W. Bush named Negroponte as the first Director of National Intelligence, (DNI), a cabinet-level position charged with coordinating the nation’s Intelligence Community [10]. On April 21, 2005, Negroponte was confirmed by a vote of 98 to 2 in the Senate,
Otto Reich was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere in January 2002, and served under a recess appointment. In 2003, Bush then appointed him US Special Envoy to the Western Hemisphere
John Negroponte - allowed death squads to operate in Central America.
>>Bennett is a staunch supporter of the War on Drugs and has been criticized for his views on the issue. On a television show, he said that a viewer's suggestion of beheading drug dealers would be "morally plausible." [3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bennett
Reminds me of their teleprompter tirades. It seems like when they were talking about those, this was a whole new technology, never before seen!
Same thing for the Czars. They didn't have any issues with Bushie's cadre, but now that Obama is office. Dang it, they want ANSWERS!!
Exactly, Mag.
Hell, the very FIRST time the term "czar" was applied publicly to refer to a presidential appointee was during . . . the Nixon administration [Energy Czar William Simon] -- and during the Cold War, no less . . .
Nixon started this, and every administration since then has had any number of Czars that have worked for every President on down the line.
I would assume Obama interviewed his Czars, or his senior staff did, and brought him recommendations, same as for W, same as for Clinton, same as for GHW, same as for Reagan, and so on.
I don't know what they make.
WRONG AGAIN . . .
Lemme guess -- you didn't look too hard, did you?
Randall Tobias
AIDS czar
Appointed by Pres.
2003
Scott Evertz
AIDS czar
Appointed by Pres.
2001
Carol Thompson
AIDS czar
Appointed by Pres.
2004
Drug Czar
Gil Kerlikowske
Appointed by Pres.
1982
Regulatory Czar
Susan Dudley
Appointed by Pres.
2007
Terrorism Czar
John O. Brennan
Appointed by Pres.
2004
Bank Bailout Czar
Neel Kashkari
Appointed by Pres.
2008
Ummm... becuase these comapnies are being bailed out by the taxpayer, and the gov't OWNS a large share of these comapnies?
and by the way who interviewed these CZAR's? What are they making? Who gets to have input on their pay?
The administration appoints these people the same was ALL political appointees are handled. Don't like it? Vote for the other guy. (And we'll see if you complain as much about HIS czars.)
No, in the past these individuals had a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate, the 42 that Obama has have not had confirmation hearings.
You sure about that, Limpy?
After all, the Czars were a Russian invention -- and I believe the Nazis fought against Russia . . .
It's not like the Great Gasbag to be wrong about anything. If he says Hitler had a labor czar, then maybe he did. I'm sure the fat man didn't just pull that out of his nether regions.
He's actually quite the historian. Until today I never knew that the Nazi rise to power was the result of Bismarck's health care plan. I mean, that's amazing. I took history and not once did they ever mention health care as one of the reasons the Nazis took over Germany.
This is becuase the fundamental idea that a[n exectuive] PAY CZAR would be an inherently Left Wing concept, while a LABOR CZAR would be an inherently RIGHT WING concept. One keeps managemant in line while the other keeps labor in line. Only someone stupid enough to think that HITLER WAS A LEFTIST could be stupid enough to confuse these two points.
So... He can't even LIE in a way that makes any damned sense. I don't know how anyone can't see what an idiot this guy is. I can't believe ANYONE, EVER thought he ever had anythign of value to say. He's an out-and-out liar and he's not even that good at it!
I say go for broke on giving people the willies whenever the government is mentioned on TV. Maybe they'll pay attention when the whereabouts of the AIDS Tyrant is announced.
Randy
All senators in favor say "aye". The ayes have it.
Satisfied?
His strategy was based on a simple principle: to obtain the support of powerful and influential elements in the army, industry and finance and to buttress that with support among the masses. He addressed himself first to the middle classes, ruined by inflation, and managed to obtain some assistance from elements among the workers disappointed in the revolution.
To the middle classes he promised relief from what he called the tyranny of big business, particularly the department stores, with which small tradesmen found it difficult to compete. He promised them that when in power he would dissolve the department stores and abolish all interest. To the workers he promised dissolution of the trusts. Neither of these promises was kept.
Added to his economic program, designed to appeal to the ruined middle-class elements, he put forward his slogans of extreme nationalism and racism--the union of all Germans on the basis of self-determination in a greater Germany. It was not until 1928 that he came forward with a program for the farmers, who had become rich during the war on high prices resulting from the blockade. In 1932, when mass unemployment assumed unprecedented proportions in Germany, he promised work for all the unemployed.
It was plagiarized from that librul rag, the New York Times
Nazi state by Franz Neuman, published in 1942, it would be clear even to him the Nazi Germany was a corpatist state where unions were verboten, workers had to toil long hours, and the scions of the major industrial families like the Krupps made more money then ever. The might of the Army and the Party served this Corporatist structure. I also thought that anyone who had taken a World History 101 course, knew that the Nazis pretence of being a socialist party died when Ernst Roehm took a bullet to the head.