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Another Czar Bites The Dust

In the flurry of news this week, you may have missed another body tossed under the insatiable Obama bus: Internet Czar Susan Crawford.

The Obama administration has faced a vocal and growing opposition to the radical so-called net neutrality advocated by folks like Crawford and FCC Chair Julius Genachowski. Bi-partisan opposition, I hasten to add. The radicals in the administration, whose views are shared by the President, in true czar fashion avoid honest debate on the issue at all costs. Even, it would seem, internally.

From The American Spectator:

“[Summers] and other senior Obama officials were unaware of how radical the draft Net Neutrality regulations were when they were initially internally circulated to Obama administration officials several weeks ago. ‘All of sudden Larry is getting calls from CEOs, Wall Street folks he talks to, Republicans and Democrats, asking him what the Administration is doing with the policies, and he isn’t sure what they’re talking about,’ says one White House aide. ‘He felt blind-sided, and Susan was one of those people who heard about it.’”

This looks to be classic scrambling for cover on the part of Summers. As Big Government notes:

Sources say that such ongoing concern and criticism regarding the push for net neutrality could further impact the thinking of key Obama advisers -including Summers and potentially Obama strategist David Axelrod -and ultimately result in the administration backing away from net neutrality entirely. The White House aide cited by the Spectator notes that radical figures within the administration “are just a bunch of targets on our back that we can’t shake.”

That last line is a keeper. The full quote obtained by the American Spectator: “They haven’t done us any good on any level, and now they are just a bunch of targets on our back that we can’t shake.” Yes, that’s in reference to the radical elements appointed all over the administration, not just the net neutrality extremists.

This won’t be the end of the net neutrality war. Nothing with the Obama administration ever seems to end. But it is one more radical leftist shown the door, and that’s a good thing on its own. It’s also yet another reminder of that Neil Steven’s refrain: Elections Have Consequences.

COMMENTS

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    The Insatiable Obama Bus! who will it feed on next? Feel the wheels of horror trundeling under all the flower of the left wing!

    Can it ever be stopped! It’s Insatiable!!!

    • http://www.BTWsociety.org racvt

      .. Obama took over General Motors.
      He needed a company to manufacture the buses he would need to run over the many folks who embarrass him by “following orders.”

  • johnaaaa

    It appears when the true intentions of these czars is exposed, they scatter like cock roaches in the light. It is facts, and the Constitution, that hopefully will slow this assault on common sense till 2010. I only pray the damage yet to be done to the free enterprise system and the Constitution will recover.

    Good article

    • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

      Not without pain to be sure but the American people are stronger and better than this. We just took too much for granted for too long.

    • ecroper

      Maybe a board game or how about an arcade. Call it “Shootin the Sczars”.

  • http://www.jeannie-ology.com jeannieology

    www.jeannie-ology.com

  • http://www.barrypopik.com barrypopik

    I’m a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary and a contributor to the Yale Book of Quotations. Give me all your political lingo and I research it!

    “Elections have consequences” is not originally from Neil Stevens:

    http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/elections_have_consequences/

  • mrbobl7388

    AX that Obamma felle wherer he be findin’ all them dummy czars.
    But we know that most of what he is doing is promoted by the power behind him. It is almost as if they are egging the citizenry on to revolution. Luckily, more people are awakening every day. By the time November 2010 rolls around I’ll bet it will be the biggest “day of reckoning” that ever befell the Democrats. Now, if we could just take away their lifetime pensions, it would be the perfect day.

    TERM LIMITS NOW — D0N’T REELECT ANYBODY

    • The_Gadfly

      If we can get a Conservative into the Presidency in 2012, I think Art Chance and Ken Cuccinelli just might have a way…

      • Achance
  • http://www.jeannie-ology.com jeannieology

    In absentia – Muslim Sensitivity Czar – Nidal Malik Hasan

    “Saturday Night Special” Czarina/Speaker of the House – Nancy Pelosi

    Soon to be Missing & Never to be Found Again Czar – Joe Lieberman

    H1N1 Vaccine Production Czar – Big Bird
    H1N1 Public Interest Prod the Public to Get the Shot Czar – Hard to find Tickle Me Elmo

    www.jeannie-ology.com

  • dclamage

    But who will Ms. Crawford be replaced with? A czar who is even more Communist than the last one? Or will Obama dissolve the unconstitutional czar position altogether?

    2009 sure smells a lot like 1979.

    • The_Gadfly
  • larryp
  • http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/ daezy

    Now, the next one to go has to be EEOC czar, the lesbian law-school professor named Chai R. Feldblum, who signed a 2006 manifesto endorsing polygamous households.

  • fayers

    The Czar to watch all of the other Czars. How about a toilet Czar to flush all the toilets. I could go on all night. How a Czar to watch Dr. Phil and wheel of fortune Cartoon Network on and on.
    Fred
    Nashville, N.C.