Questions Raised Over Influence of Obama ‘Czars’

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President Obama might have slipped Monday, when he introduced Gil Kerlikowske as his “drug czar” while speaking to an urban policy group in Washington.

Kerlikowske’s real title is director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The administration generally rejects the term “czar” as a media-generated buzzword.

But as the so-called “czars” keep piling up, it’s raising serious questions about how powerful these White House insiders are and seems to make the term “czar” all the more appropriate.

By some accounts, there are close to three dozen czars in the Obama administration, managing everything from closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to ending the genocide in Darfur.

With Steve Rattner leaving as head of the administration’s auto task force, just days after General Motors emerged from bankruptcy, America will get a new auto czar — former steelworkers union official Ron Bloom.

The White House routinely fends off claims that Obama has named too many czars.

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