Sunday, March 27, 2011

The "Bridge" to Saner Politics

President Obama has taken a lot of heat for his utilization (over utilization, his critics say) of administration czars (they seem to forget that Mr. Bush used a lot of them, too). And, yeah, perhaps he has gone to the well a few too many times. But I, folks, can definitely think of a few czars that I wouldn't mind..............................................................................................One of them would clearly be a regulation czar. I mean, think about it here. Wouldn't it be awesome to have just one person/agency in charge of separating the good and necessary types of regulation (food safety, oil-well safety, etc.) from those that are more of a nuisance (OSHA once determined that the sinks in my mother's beauty parlor were several inches too close together and she ended up dishing out big money to "fix" it)/do little more than hinder economic activity?..................................................................................................Another valuable czar would be an infrastructure czar. Similar to the regulation czar, this person/agency would try to separate out the necessary and stimulative infrastructure projects from the porkier ones/boondoggles (does the "bridge to nowhere" sound at all familiar?). This, folks, I think would especially be valuable these days - a time in which we have both an intense need for infrastructure AND a humongous national debt...............................................................................................Who would I try to get to fill such positions? Certainly not a partisan. Somebody with expertise? Not necessarily that, either. I would probably try to get somebody who both sides of the aisle respected but neither side revered; perhaps a Colin Powell or a Chuck Hagel. A Sam Nunn, maybe. Any suggestions?

4 comments:

Commander Zaius said...

It all sounds great but wars tend to complicate matters and dammit if doofus didn't go and start a third one.

I think Obama finally screwed the pooch on this one.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

I guess that a war czar would probably be totally out of the question, huh, double b?

Infidel753 said...

Why draw only from among political figures? Someone from the world of civil engineering might do a better job as infrastructure czar, for example.

Sounds like you might need a czar czar to manage all the czars.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

You're thinking outside the box, Infidel753. I totally like that.