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?
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4 comments:
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.
I guess that a war czar would probably be totally out of the question, huh, double b?
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.
You're thinking outside the box, Infidel753. I totally like that.
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