Senator Lamar Alexander on Obama's Czars: "Antidemocratic and a Poor Way to Manage Government"

Senator Lamar Alexander remarked on President Obama's use of czars in his administration: "According to news accounts, there are 32 or 34 so-called czars in the Obama White House. Respected voices in the Senate—Senator Byrd and Senator Hutchison, a senior Democrat and a senior Republican—have pointed out that these czars are an affront to the Constitution. Theyre antidemocratic. They are a poor example of a new era of transparency which was promised to this country. They are a poor way to manage the government and they seem to me to be the principal symptom of this administrations eight-month record of too many Washington takeovers.

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[fastdancer88]

Yea, but Bush's czars weren't Markists, socialists, and admirers of communist dictators.

[bluffdweller1]

I know what we need !..... a czar czar to keep track of the czars happenings..... call them super czar, or ultra czar .

[powdersprings30127]

I had hopes you were an enlightened individual when I saw your solar cabin videos, but now it seems you're just a paranoid anti-Obama guy. You know, Obama heavily supports the things you made your cabin from... if you did it Bush's way, it would be all electric on the grid being powered by foreign oil buddies. Fail.

[greggymcgurks]

This is so mind numbingly hypocritical. Like KOHF34 said President Bush had more Czars then President Obama. The fact that Republican supporters won't accept how hypocritical this is is mind boggling.

[KOHF34]

I'd like to reiterate to Lamar Alexander that Bush had two more czars then Obama had. Plus, the dems didn't bitch about it either.

[mikejackson4ever]

That too.

[solarcabin]

Way to show your immaturity and ignorance at the same time dolt!

[mikejackson4ever]

Because his had to pass congressional approval, and Obama's did not. Simple as that. Dolt.

[mikejackson4ever]

Did Bush appoint them all himself without congressional approval?

[solarcabin]

I am the real LaMar Alexander and I did not approve this video or use of my name.

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