the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our czars

so in the wake of the Van Jones resignation, I did a bit of searching on the hot new viral wingnut "czar" meme (how new? The wikipedia entry was started in late July) and found the viral ur-czar list. Czars, you may recall, are presidential appointees by fiat who are "unaccountable" to our representatives in congress assembled, and Obama's bypassed Congress to create a huge number of them.

There are, as you can imagine, some issues with with the list.

edit: I am incredibly amused to see how many of these names appear on Politico's list of Obama Czars.

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