Running a mafia is simply too big of a job for one man alone; even a talented type-A overachiever can’t do it by himself. Michael Corleone needs his consigliere and his henchmen.So Barack Obama needs his merry band to run the alphabet soup of bureaucracies from the Agricultural Research Service to the Veterans Health Administration. And as president, he can appoint many of them. The president has the constitutional authority to appoint up to 3,000 senior government officials and put thousands more into positions like those of special envoys, special assistants, commissioners, task-force members, and members of other unelected bodies.Czars Belong in RussiaNot that that was enough for Obama. In typical tyrannical fashion, the president immediately went beyond the bounds of the Constitution and started appointing czars, unvetted cronies chosen to do the left’s dirty work without congressional approval. He brought in more than 40 czars, with unpublished salaries and secret agendas.1I could write an entire book just about the often criminal and unconstitutional activities these guys engage in.
