If Obama wants to do something good for this country, he can ban the word “Czar” from public use.

Czars – absolute rulers of Russia, a state that hadn’t (and in many ways still hasn’t) left medievalism, autocrats who exercised boundless power and tolerated specacular cruelty in maintaining order – are not a very American concept.

Another?  Ditch the “war on drugs”, a war that has cost more lives than Vietnam and Korea together (not even counting the overdoses) and which we can not win as long as Americans – here’s a key concept – want to guzzle illegal drugs, and are willing to pay through the nose both ways for them.

So what do you get when you put two concepts – noxious/unamerican and just-plain unworkable – together?
Rumor has it we might have a new Drug Czar – and it looks like the President has picked another real winner, Gil Kerlikowske, former Seattle police chief.

Currently, he serves as president of the Major Cities Chief’s Association, which consists of police leaders from the country’s 56 largest metropolitan areas.

So he’s gone from being a cop to a politician.  Worse – someone who feeds off of politicians.

He has been an advocate of gun control and fought to pass the assault-weapons ban and has championed closing the background-check loophole at gun shows.

Another great choice, Mr. President.

As Carnivore at TvM points out, this was the sort of astute pick that did such wonders for George HW Bush.

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