Posts about Alan Bersin Watch as of October 15, 2009

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.Completely imaginary CzarsI think we should probably start with the czars who don’t actually exist, because they’re such fun.