Nazi German plenipotentiary or Obama's Czar

National Socialism II- Only the names have been changed



By John Burtis Tuesday, June 23, 2009

As President Obama routinely exceeds the US Constitution and carves a new country out of the wreckage he’s already wrought, he’s brought twenty or so new men and women into this heady mix. They have never been used before and their jobs exist way outside the three branches of government we learned in school - the legislative, executive, and judicial.

These are the new Czars, like the Car Czar, the Intergovernmental Czar, or even the new Great Lakes Czar, though what some of these folks actually do is as murky as Lake Michigan in March or an expansive Obama speech in support of the little folks in Iran who are trying to crack open a window of freedom.

But as one wag pointed out to me, maybe they’re Tsars. After all, their actual titles have never been officially been spelled out and remain as open to interpretation as their duties. Unlike the Tsars, however, they report only to President Obama, their supreme leader, or, in German, their Fuehrer.

But looking back in time so we don’t repeat what’s already happened before and by doing so we find out we really did do, let’s look at Germany in 1938 and cast a brief look at a excellent new book by Adam Tooze, titled, â€