CALLS FOR DEFUNDING OBAMA'S SHADOW GOVERNMENT GROWING

By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
February 22, 2011
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President Barack Obama’s arguably unconstitutional and unaccountable political appointees known as "czars" may be joining the nation's unemployed now that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block funding for those officials -- many of whom are radical leftists -- he assigned to run government without congressional approval.

In all, President Obama has appointed 41 czars who have enormous power to regulate and control the American economy and government without any sort of oversight, according to Judicial Watch, a public-interest group that investigates and reports government corruption and crime. http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articl ... 198/29391/

By design, Obama's czars answer only to him even though they manage crucial areas of national policy and that violates the constitutional system of checks and balances and its separation of powers, according to the longest serving U.S. Senator in history, the late Democrat Robert Byrd. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162- ... 03544.html

Before passing away last summer Byrd, a nine-term senator who twice chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee, blasted the president’s czar appointments as unconstitutional and a clear attempt to evade congressional oversight. He referred to Obama’s “czar strategyâ€