Czars and Witches

OMG, I was furious this morning while I was driving in listening to squeaky little Marsha Blackburn, representative from Tennessee on this whole Czars thing.  If you haven't heard, they have introduced a bill with 100 co-sponsors to - oh I don't know - oversee the presidential appointments to a wide variety of staff positions.  They want to be able to "fully vet" people he wants to hire in his administration.  NOW you think of it?  After we let Brownie ruin a major US city?  WhatEVER.  The irony is unbelievable - Bush was fine to appoint his frat brother's illiterate junkie kid but now when every indication is that Obama wants to appoint QUALIFIED people to important federal positions, now we somehow need oversight. Talk about Congressional overreach.  This post about Obama's appointment to the Justice Department head of the Civil Rights Division made me hopping mad.

So I was wondering, how in the heck do these people - the "unhinged zealots" in the immortal words of Jason Linkins, manage to be so destructive when they are such a minority?  They are following up on the firing of Van Jones by saying that there should be congressional oversight of something like all of the president's staffing decisions.  It's so absurd!  And it chips away, chips away, chips away at Obama's ability to move forward with the country's agenda.  Which is just their goal.  Hmmph.  But how do they do it?  I think it's Fox News!  They have this enormous pulpit from which they can fling this nonsense and the Fox News viewers just eat it up.  And then, by the laws of the "Crank Cycle" it somehow gets picked up as reality and covered as news.

Anyway, so really I just wanted to say that Fox News is really bad for America.

And also, I wanted to point out that little Marsha totally reminded me of Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter!  What do you think?

Here's Marsha

Here's Dolores