Now the we have a financial bailout czar and soon a car czar to go with the drug czar, maybe we need a higher-level czar to police all the others. As Slate’s Mickey Kaus puts it:
We need a Czar Czar, to crack the whip on all the czars. … P.S.: Also a federal czar policy. Right now, czar decisions are made on an ad hoc, case-by-case basis, with no attempt at czar harmonization.
Government by czar didn’t work out too well in Russia, and it isn’t going so great in this country either. So I have a better idea: Why don’t we have our own February Revolution and get rid of all the czars? If we can avoid following that up with a communist coup, as the Russians did, we might be in good shape.