Posted by Ilya Somin:
Do We Need a Czar of Czars?
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_12_14-2008_12_20.shtml#1229376372
Now the we have a financial bailout czar and soon a car czar to go
with the drug czar, [1]maybe we need a higher-level czar to police all
the others. As Slate's Mickey Kaus puts it:
We need a Czar Czar, to crack the whip on all the czars. ... P.S.:
Also a federal czar policy. Right now, czar decisions are made on
an ad hoc, case-by-case basis, with no attempt at czar
harmonization.
Government by czar didn't work out too well in Russia, and it isn't
going so well in this country either. So I have a better idea: Why
don't we have our own [2]February Revolution and get rid of all the
czars? If we can avoid following that up with a communist coup, as the
Russians did, we might be in good shape.
References
1.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2008/12/14/who-said-unions-aren-t-productive.aspx
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution
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