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Originally Posted by The Reaper
The czars are cut-outs and lightning rods.
They can front outrageous policies, create rules and regulations without Congressional approval, and if the public reacts negatively, can be fired and replaced without the splashback on the POTUS, or the Congress. If the POTUS provides top-cover via executive privilege or presidential pardon, and Congress does not object, they can pretty much get away with whatever they wish.
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Good point. Essentially they can be used as trial balloons, for as you say "outrageous polices" with a lesser degree of liability to a cabinet member or the little smoking man himself. It is a forgone conclusion Bidden can get away with saying anything after the Hoover/FDR comment about their television chats during the Depression. Like you say, they can be fired or buried with little or no reaction, except by Fox News. I'm hard pressed to name any other legitimate news outlets these days besides a few of the newspapers.
Glenn Beck raised a good point last week. Obama has so inundated the news much so much on every liberal front and issue that it has become impossible to report on each of them each day. They can only pick about 6 or so of the most outrageous things they are doing each day. I hope the old adage comes true, that when you try to fix everything, you don't really fix anything.