Breaking News! White House Appoints An “Or Else” Czar

President Obama has appointed more Czars Than the Romanov Empire ever had.

Bigot Czar, Mad Scientist Czar, Animal Rights Czar, Communist Czar, along with a host of others.

One appointment that flew under the radar was the picking of an “Or Else” Czar, as in you will do what you are told, or otherwise be prepared to suffer the consequences.

The first name that probably comes to mind is Rahm Emanuel, but you may be surprised to learn that it’s not him.

In addition to his other duties, President Obama has decided that Vice-President Joe Biden should be the administration’s chief legbreaker.

With a line that could have come straight out of an episode of the Sopranos, Biden made it clear that members of Congress pledging loyalty to the President have nothing to fear, while for those opposing him there will be hell to pay.

After last weeks Senate vote on health care reform, here is what Biden had to say:

“Those who voted for reform will be rewarded and those who voted against it will be held accountable.”

To me, that sounds more like the ravings of a ticked-off Mafia godfather than a rational statement from a Vice-President of the United States.

I can just imagine the after the vote conversation between the President and the Vice-President:

“OK, we’ll give Gillibrand and Schumer all the construction and longshoreman contracts on the Lower East Side, but we better bring Hatch and Bennet in for a sit-down and let them know what it means to go against the family.”

Where the hell does Joe Biden get off telling members of the United States Senate that they will have their feet held to the fire for voting with their conscience?

Has the Obama adminisrtation become so power-mad that it plans to destroy anyone who dares to stand in it’s way?

Various pundits have compared the Obama way of doing things to Chicago-style politics.

Thanks to Joe Biden, we can rest assured that Al Capone would have been proud.

The White House Declares War On Both Fox News AND Congress

In it’s latest childlike maneuver, the White House attempted to exclude Fox News from a press pool interview of White House “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg.

The Treasury Department attempted to make Feinberg available to all of that day’s participants in the pool except Fox News.

That scheme failed when the Washington bureau chiefs of the other five television networks taking part came to the conclusion that if Fox News was not included, none of them would conduct an interview with Feinberg.

The interview took place, with Fox participating, in spite of the fact that the White House did not want to invite them.

This is the sort of behavior one expects to see at a day-care center, not in our nation’s Capitol.

It appears that despite the White House urging the other major networks to boycott Fox News and not to treat them as a legitimate news organization, some members of the media still understand the meaning behind the words “a free and unfettered press.

Showing his usual disdain for a subject he does not want to be held accountable for, President Obama had this to say about his administration’s portrayal of Fox news as illegitimate:

“I think that what our advisers simply said is, is that we are going to take media as it comes,” 
“And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another. But it’s not something I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”

So rather than be kept awake at night by the questions raised by such Fox News commentators as Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, our President would rather be lulled to sleep by the praises of such unbiased reporters as Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.

Funny, but any time that I think of those three passing themselves off as legitimate journalists, it tends to keep me awake at night!

However, Fox News isn’t the only thing that President Obama is refusing to allow to interrupt his nap time.

Another is Congress.

The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama’s policy czars to testify before Congress.

The fact that Congress has a Constitutional mandate to investigate the actions of any Presidential administration is something else that the President is not loosing any sleep over.

In spite of the fact that not one of the multitude of “Czars” that President Obama has appointed has gone through any sort of Senate confirmation process, White House counsel Greg Craig told members of congress this week that none of the Czars would be made available.

Mr. Craig did explain that the White House is not attempting to circumvent Congress.

“We recognize that it is theoretically possible that a president could create new positions that inhibit transparency or undermine congressional oversight. That is simply not the case, however, in the current administration,”

In other words Congress, take our word for it.

Otherwise we may be forced to pull a Fox News on you.

How to Get Your Name On The White House Enemies List

You could get a job with Fox News.

That one is pretty much a no-brainer.

However, there are a multitude of other methods.

You could take part in a Tea Party event. (That way, not only will you make the enemies list, you’ll be a racist as well.)

You could be someone from a small town bitterly clinging to your guns and your religion.

According to Obama, if you oppose amnesty for illegal aliens you are a “demagogue.”

I almost forgot, again. if you are a Tea Party protestor, you are also part of an “angry mob” as well as being a potential terrorist.

If you oppose underhanded, backroom Chicago-style wheeling and dealing, you probably will make the cut.

You could be a “dishonest and partisan” Republican who opposes his health care plan.

And if you don’t fall into any of those categories, don’t despair, there are many ways to get yourself listed as an enemy of Obama.

You could be a capitalist, a pro-lifer, a supporter of the Second Amendment, a global-warming skeptic, one of those “Drill Here Drill Now” people, even something as simple as being a patriotic American can help you make the grade.

The President has also said that “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking.”

So if you don’t want your name on Obama’s enemy list, you better keep your mouth shut.

Some members of Congress seem determined to make the list, despite our advice.

Speaking about the White House call for a boycott of Fox News, Representative Jason Altmire had this to say:

“I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.”

While America faces a growing list of problems, Representative Eric Cantor complained about the loss of focus while the White House “bickers with a cable news network.”

I can hear President Obama now:

Axelrod! Put their names on the list!

Naturally, this is not the first time in world history that a nation’s leader has kept an eye on anyone who speaks out against him.

Just a few of the people from the past who kept the same sort of list that Obama seems to be patterning his on were such fair-minded individuals as former paranoiac-in-chief President Richard Nixon, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and, last but not least, the personal favorite of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, one her favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong

A few of you are feeling pretty smug right now, thinking that currently,  only in America, the land of opportunity, could someone from any walk of life get their name on their country’s leader’s enemies list.

Sorry to break this to you, but President Obama is far from being the only world leader who keeps a list of those who dare oppose him.

Some of the others are:

North Korea
Iran
Cuba
Equatorial Guinea
Saudi Arabia
Liberia
Sudan

The leaders of these countries, along with President Obama, keep track of anyone who doesn’t care for the way they do things.

I wonder what George Orwell would have to say about this?