{"id":3819,"date":"2008-12-16T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2008-12-16T07:31:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T12:31:05","slug":"til-the-czars-go-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3819","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Til The Czars Go Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/kausfiles\/archive\/2008\/12\/14\/who-said-unions-aren-t-productive.aspx\">on the proliferation of &#8220;czars&#8221; in the Obama Administration:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We need a Czar Czar, to crack the whip on all the czars. &#8230; P.S.: Also a federal czar policy. Right now, czar decisions are made on an ad hoc, case-by-case basis, with no attempt at czar harmonization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps we need a standardized training program for czars, something to bring them up to speed on the history and power of the Czars.<\/p>\n<p>Hm.  What could that be?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/barackobama\/3150657\/Obama-Youth-video-emerges-on-YouTube.html\">What indeed<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus, on the proliferation of &#8220;czars&#8221; in the Obama Administration: We need a Czar Czar, to crack the whip on all the czars. &#8230; P.S.: Also a federal czar policy. Right now, czar decisions are made on an ad hoc, case-by-case basis, with no attempt at czar harmonization. Perhaps we need a standardized training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}