Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Sixteen –Obama’s Secret Shadow Government

“More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators” Anonymous.

The transparency we were promised from candidate and now President Obama is about as clear as mud. Misdirection, deception, diversion, lies and deceit seems to be standard operating procedure for this administration. New efforts to promote transparency including assurances to post spending bills and stimulus allocations on line with ample time (at least 72 hours) for public scrutiny have been totally ignored.

The only transparency this White House has embraced is the release of Top Secret CIA documentation in an effort to criminalize W’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques. The real world consequences of these boneheaded and irresponsible politically motivated policies only provide aid and comfort to our enemy in the Global War on Terrorism. Probably doesn’t help much with Mr. Obama’s Overseas Contingency Operations neither.

After 16 weeks in office and several months to prepare the “Yes We Can Laugh at Sick Jokes about Rush Limbaugh Dying on 9/11 in Public, on TV and in Front of the Entire White House Press Corps and Two Days Later the Same Group of Left Wing Media Elite Press Take the Word of the White House Press Secretary Claiming That it Never Happened and the President, Who was Caught on Camera Laughing, Was Truly Offended by These Comments” crowd has yet to fill 100’s of critical presidential appointments at the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense, Justice and other Cabinet level agencies.

Thoughts of Obama from Bama actually is encouraged by the administration’s failure to fill these positions as we agree with David B.Coblitz assessment, “Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one”, but can certainly appreciate the frustration they must be experiencing being so shorthanded while attempting their bloodless coup to nationalize the banking, insurance and auto industries; transform the country from a free market economy to a socialist welfare state; redistributing more wealth than Marx and Lenin ever dreamed possible; and taking us all green ain't no never mind that the science doesn’t support it, we will never recover the development and implementation cost and Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is an environmental fairy tale.

Meanwhile, under the radar, known but not investigated or reported by our so called free and unbiased press, the President has assembled a stealth, shadow government, with the appointment of at least 18, and still counting, so called Czars. These positions, which have no constitutional basis, are accountable to the President and the President only. No advise and consent is required from the Senate or Congressional oversight.

President Obama is not the first Commander in Chief to appoint Czars. Nixon has that dubious honor appointing William E. Simon as Energy Czar. This move was met with bipartisan resistance at the time but was effectively defended with the argument these appointments were intended for unique, high priority and difficult issues that require a special level of expertise and singular focus to address effectively. Subsequent Presidents have proceeded accordingly, making these appointments only after thorough deliberation and consideration.

President Obama has blatantly disregarded his predecessors reasoned approach to the use of Czars and elevated their status and influence to unprecedented levels. This president has already appointed more Czars than the combined total appointed by his last four predecessors. Viewing them as an integral component of the Executive Branch bureaucracy and as the secret power behind the throne, this group of unchecked mostly left wing ideologues have been charged with the clandestine mission to stealthily advocate and implement Mr. Obamas’ leftist/Socialist agenda.

The silence from the loyal opposition and conservative media about the dangers and abuse of power this bureaucratic Czar management structure represents has been deafening. Thoughts of Obama from Bama is aware of only one credible, and we use the word credible loosely here, voice of descent and concern originating from all places, the so called Conscience of the Senate, The Honorable James Byrd, Senior Democrat Senator from the great state of West Virginia. Expressing concerns about unaccountable, unconstitutional authority and unchecked power being entrusted with the Czars on the floor of the Senate and following up with a formal letter no further comments have been forthcoming and Obama’s Czars are still running the circus.

We can only assume the good Senator was offered more money to construct the 450th building, bridge, highway, water treatment plant, airport, or maybe even a new KKK lodge where his old Claven might gather to revisit his glory days as the local Grand Dragon all of which would bear his name in return for his silence.

Considering the for public view group, Senate approved and allegedly thoroughly vetted Cabinet Secretaries and appointees for the most part ended up being a bunch of tax cheats, extreme abortion rights advocates, terrorist sympathizers, blame America first apologist, appeasers, and pathological liars we can only imagine how many felons and radical, left wing, socialist/communist/fascist, extremist we currently have serving as Czars in Obamas’ Royal court.

A review and public release describing who these people are and what they stand for is definitely warranted. In the interest of brevity and to avoid overloading you folks with too much criminality and Socialist/Marxist bureaucrats all at one time this first post on the subject of Czars will expose 6 of the “best and brightest” the “Socialist Change You Can Believe In” gang have gathered to run their shadow government. Future post will publicly disclose the gory details about the remaining felons, liberal head cases, and Marxist Mr. Obama has handpicked to lead his administration’s covert operations. At least the ones who haven't been indicted, convicted, deported and/or dropped out of society and joined some nutcase leftist militant underground group.

1. Energy Czar - Carol Browner: More fondly referred to as the "climate czar". Ms. Browner is an unabashed Socialist. A long time member of Socialist International, a radically leftist bunch of eco Nazis that call for the implementation of a global government. This woman, a self proclaimed Socialist, has unfettered access to the President and they share a belief in the unfounded and unproven myth of an eminent man made global warming disaster of biblical proportions. Also known to buckle at the knees and break into a profuse sweat in the presence of Al “Mr. Inconvenient Lie” Gore

2. Urban Czar-Adolfo Carrion, Jr.: Carrión is an urban planner by training who since 2002 had served as borough president of one of the country's poorest counties in New York. According to the Daly News, a probe of Adolfo Carrión has widened to explore whether he received a significant discount on the renovation of his home. The former Bronx borough president has acknowledged that he has not paid his architect, even though the work was done two years ago. Disregarding the law and abusing the public trust seems to be a prerequisite for any Obama appointee.

3. Border Czar-Alan Bersin: A Clinton Administration alum with a solid liberal pedigree. Yale Law, Harvard undergraduate. Other than a short stint as US Attorney, California Southern District, limited law enforcement experience. No known ties to radical left wing organizations or current criminal probes but he is a lawyer. Considering his clean record must have been The Presidents 3rd or 4th pick for the position

4. Infotech Czar-Vivek Kundra: Kundra was forced to go on leave after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided his old District of Columbia office and arrested a city official and an Indian American tech consultant on corruption charges. Kundra has not been implicated in the case, yet. Reports citing authorities said that Kundra associates, along with others, defrauded the government through a variety of schemes, including billing the city for items that were never delivered and ‘ghost’ contract employees who did not work. Kundra was also arrested in 1996 for shoplifting dress shirts from J.C. Penney. An IT geek with no fashion sense inflicted with a bad case of kleptomania, definitely Mr. Obama’s idea of the perfect government Czar.

5. Faith-Based Czar-Joshua DuBois: A 26-year-old Pentecostal pastor and Director of Religious Outreach for the Obama Campaign directs the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. Blatantly disregarding the truth and facts regarding religion in America, which demographically breaks out as follows: Christianity – 77%; Secular non-believers – 13%; Judaism – 1.4%; Islam – 0.5%; Hinduism – 0.5%. Following the lead of his boss who also recently lied about the nature of religion in this country the good pastor said the following: "Our democracy demands that when people are religiously motivated you have to translate your [policy] concerns into universal rather than religion-specific values. We're no longer just a Christian nation; we're also a Jewish nation, a Hindu nation, a Muslim nation, and a nation that does not adhere to a particular religion." We certainly do not have a state sponsored religion or vice versa and hopefully never will. We are, however, indisputably a Christian nation founded on Judeo-Christian values. Appointing a secular progressive as our nation’s Faith-Based Czar is another example of this administration’s arrogant disregard of the beliefs and values of the overwhelming majority of “We the People”.

6. Health Reform Czar- Nancy-Ann DeParle: Another Clinton alum and Harvard Law and Oxford University grad. She is an advocate for a nationalized, government controlled, single payer healthcare system or in other words socialized medicine. Mr. Obama chose to overlook Ms. DeParle’s business ties to companies that have a direct stake in the health care debate which puts her in conflict with his own Executive Order prohibiting “lobbyist” in his administration. She has deep roots in the DC bureaucracy and should fit in with this group like a duck to water.

The final tally on the 6 Obama Czars we covered today –1 probable communist; 1 confirmed, 4 probable socialist; At least 1 convicted felon, probably more and 1 the target of a criminal investigation; 6 secular progressives; 1 future Reverend Jeremiah Wright wannabe.

The Obama Shadow Government is unchecked, unaccountable and unconstitutional. The perfect example of absolute power which always corrupts. Hopefully this additional layer of bureaucracy at the highest level of government will produce enough bottlenecks, tension, inefficiencies, and inaction, typical of all bureaucracies, to impede this groups covert efforts to transform our great nation into an European style Socialist nanny state the President seems so hell bent on creating.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes