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The Politico Discovers Some Major News Thing Called The ‘Czar Revolt’

by Jim Newell  4:35 pm September 8, 2009

Now. What does this headline even mean? Politico invented a list of 31 “czars” in the Obama administration, and then decided that this is a huge problem for the White House, having these 31 czars. There was such a revolt against czars that Van Jones had to be fired, for being one of the czars! This is the current hottest story in politics, maybe ever, did you know?

You must read Dave Weigel’s takedown of this. DAVE WE LOVE YOU. The Politico, in coming up with its list of 31 czars, simply found anyone with a government job and labeled that person a czar.

For example: “‘California Water Czar’ – Actually the Deputy Secretary of the Interior, who was given this extra portfolio by Secretary Ken Salazar in June.”

OTHER CZARS POLITICO FORGOTTS:

  • Salad-Bar Czar — Ken Sala-czar
  • Liberals Czar — Michael Moore
  • Czar of Being Majority Whip — Dick Durbin
  • Clown Czar — Al Franken
  • Czar of Sex With Ladies — Jon Favreau
  • Cafeteria Czar — Lady who works in cafeteria somewhere
  • Actual Czar of Russia — Hitler

When will Obama disclose all of his Czars to Politico?

[Washington Independent]

{ 103 comments }

choinski September 8, 2009 at 4:39 pm

“Czar revolt” – So, Republicans are the new Bolsheviks?

Jukesgrrl September 8, 2009 at 4:39 pm

Starring Glen Beck as Grigori Rasputin.

Hooray For Anything September 8, 2009 at 4:39 pm

Does Politico run all their stories through the RNC before posting them or are they too busy blowing them to email?

choinski September 8, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Czar Czar Gabor!

Delicious September 8, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Politico must die!

queeraselvis v 2.0 September 8, 2009 at 4:42 pm

So when does Chuck Grassley get the nod for Cornfed Fucknut Czar?

chascates September 8, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Email Protocol Czar – Elizabeth Becton

choinski September 8, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Tsar Tsar Binks

ManchuCandidate September 8, 2009 at 4:43 pm

[re=404892]Hooray For Anything[/re]:
A little bit from column A and a little bit from column B.

queeraselvis v 2.0 September 8, 2009 at 4:44 pm

[re=404897]choinski[/re]: Hardy Czar Czar.

Monsieur Grumpe September 8, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Don’t forget Czar Czar Gabor.

Mr.Haney/Palin 2012!

dum librul September 8, 2009 at 4:45 pm

[re=404900]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Grassley is twttr czr.

Monsieur Grumpe September 8, 2009 at 4:45 pm

[re=404897]choinski[/re]:
Damn you!

queeraselvis v 2.0 September 8, 2009 at 4:47 pm

[re=404911]dum librul[/re]: Oh, I would’ve given the Twitter Twat Czar to Mooselini.

memzilla September 8, 2009 at 4:47 pm

When you wish upon a czar…

Makes no diff’rence who you are…

The GOP got Jones retired

To saaayyy… Efff…. youuuuuu.

Min September 8, 2009 at 4:47 pm

Czar she blows!

JSDC007 September 8, 2009 at 4:47 pm

Maybe if he appointed some Republicans as Czars, they’d shut up and go away.

For example, Czar of Pediatric Poopie-Pants (David Vitter), Czar of Divorce (Newt Gingrich), Czar of Communications with Martians (Michelle Bachman), Czar of One-dollah, One-dollah, cheap-cheap (Michelle Malkin).

Fox News Light September 8, 2009 at 4:48 pm

Still can’t believe you linked back to that horrible Van Jones post..not that the story was bad, but because I wasted so much of my weekend looking at comment section..that makes me a commentsar….

The Cold Sea September 8, 2009 at 4:49 pm

Politico owns the fucking news, bitches! The own the morning, the mid morning, the brunch, the after brunch, the afternoon delight, the after afternoon delight, the afternoon, the mid evening, the gym time, the post gym time, the on the bus home, the evening…all of it, bithches, all of it! Even if it is just an organ, a dick shall we say, of teh RNC.

themcw September 8, 2009 at 4:50 pm

[re=404889]choinski[/re]: thank you

Godot September 8, 2009 at 4:50 pm

Weigel’s headline: “When is a Czar not a Czar?”

A: When it is ajar.

GreatOldOnesParty September 8, 2009 at 4:50 pm

This is random assigning of the word “czar” is just as fucking annoying as when tards and media whoring mongoloids attach “-gate” to the end of every scandal that doesn’t involve a white, Repugnican, Born-Again-Christian male fucking a little boy.

TGY September 8, 2009 at 4:50 pm

Politico better watch it or they’ll be Czarry!

desertwind September 8, 2009 at 4:51 pm

Serious-ish question: At what point does something become “controversial” just because opponents of that something say controversial crap?

AbstinenceOnly Ed September 8, 2009 at 4:51 pm

I’m hoping they go after the Cowardice and Capitulation Czars next; those two seem to be the current nucleus of the Democratic party.

rocktonsammy September 8, 2009 at 4:51 pm

Some twunt on Fox News last night said all the czars are leading to a power grab never seen before.

Must of forgot the Patriot Act that congress passed in a second because Jr. needed power or something.

Why doesn’t god kill these people?

GreatOldOnesParty September 8, 2009 at 4:53 pm

Don’t go czar!
Don’t go czar!
I KNOW YOU DID’N JUS GO CZAR!

Katydid September 8, 2009 at 4:53 pm

There are so many damn czar that we need a Czar Czar to keep track. Appoint Malkin Czar Czar to shut the twat up.

Johnny Zhivago September 8, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Where the hell are our Czarinas???

Come here a minute September 8, 2009 at 4:55 pm

[re=404927]GreatOldOnesParty[/re]: The wingnuts have finally figured out how to take down the Obama administration — Czar-gate!

They can probably find video of each and every one of the Obama czars calling Republicans “assholes”. Obama only hires smart people.

Hed007 September 8, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Ah, hoo. So they are working at the Czar Wash, man… workin’ at the Czar Wash, yeah.

I think I’ll go drink sterno now.

vitira September 8, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Wait so if Hitler is the czar of Russia, and Russia is Communist, therefore, logically, Obama is a Communist. And a witch!

Fox News Light September 8, 2009 at 5:01 pm

These Pretzars are making me thirsty.

gurukalehuru September 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm

Czar o’Palin

GreatOldOnesParty September 8, 2009 at 5:03 pm

[re=404938]Come here a minute[/re]: Oh. My. God.

doxastic September 8, 2009 at 5:04 pm

but who will be the POWER EQUATION CZAR, “the” Politico?

RoscoePColtraine September 8, 2009 at 5:06 pm

They’re calling for Jones to be czar-d and feathered.

Way Cool Larry September 8, 2009 at 5:07 pm

“GOP Czar Revolt” — more illiterate manufactured gooper crap.

What qualifies someone to write for Politico anyway?

Mr Blifil September 8, 2009 at 5:08 pm

Make Harriet Myers Dildo Development Czar. That will make the conservatives rethink their objections to czars and czarinas. Funny how nobody objected to czars in the 30 years since Reagan came aboard.

One Yield Regular September 8, 2009 at 5:08 pm

Silly. Everyone knows the Czar Revolt took place in Russian in 1917, resulting in the dictatorship of John Lennon, who was later killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. The only Czar to survive was the princess Anesthasia, who hid under the dead bodies of the Czar’s families and the evil Rumpelstiltskin and also the princess brother, who always got nosebleeds because he was a hermaphrodite, and after the firing squad she became a mystery of all time. The end.

ManchuCandidate September 8, 2009 at 5:09 pm

You know who revolted against Czars?

Commies. That means that the Politico (sounds suspiciously like Politburo) and it’s RNC ass pals are fucking commies.

Vulpes82 September 8, 2009 at 5:10 pm

[re=404889]choinski[/re]: They can’t be Decembrists, though. Those are Obamatards.

widget09 September 8, 2009 at 5:11 pm

Hell, The Russians only had one Czar, and that was one too many.

Humpback September 8, 2009 at 5:13 pm

I thought we already got rid of them all with that recent clunkers program–Commissioners Zero Are Retired.

queeraselvis v 2.0 September 8, 2009 at 5:14 pm

[re=404956]One Yield Regular[/re]: *golf clap*

Click September 8, 2009 at 5:14 pm

Republicans are always revolting.

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 8, 2009 at 5:19 pm

BTW, Keith Olbermann declaring open war on Glenn Beck tonight. Okay, basically just being a bit more formal about having an actual plan for open war with Glenn Beck. Should be entertaining.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/6/777880/-Send-Me-Everything-You-Can-Find-About-Glenn-Beck

taylormattd September 8, 2009 at 5:20 pm

Pardon the interruption, but I can’t concentrate. Does anybody have the phone number of the hot dude in the FIT personal training ad?

Extemporanus September 8, 2009 at 5:20 pm

Glenn Beck’s penis is comprised entirely of czar tissue.

Native of SL UT September 8, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Czar Czar Gabor and Czar Czar Binks are the Czar Redundancy Czars.

MS September 8, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Can’t we just send Glenn Beck et al. to the FEMA re-education camps? Make it so, Komrade Barry Hussein X!

snideinplainsight September 8, 2009 at 5:27 pm

Could we all go to the Burger Czar, where the burgers are?

WindbagCity September 8, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Wait, have we just seen the quiet reintroduction of the Tuesday Night Takedown?

hobospacejunkie September 8, 2009 at 5:41 pm

Alles klar, Herr Kommisczar?

Extemporanus September 8, 2009 at 5:56 pm

[re=405003]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Barack me Amadeus, Herr Kommic Czar!

Bruno September 8, 2009 at 5:57 pm

If Van Jones had been in the GOP he would have been disappeared or found dead outside a Romanian secret CIA tourture prison

dijetlo September 8, 2009 at 5:57 pm

Economy is in the dumper, we have the worst health care system in the industrialized world, our education system can’t keep up with Ethiopians and oh yeah, still getting killed in two failed wars. All of these calamities were started or exacerbated by the Republicans.

Number one threat to America according to the GOP?

Czars in the government.

What a pack of shit eating retards.

JooJoo Bee September 8, 2009 at 5:57 pm

This would have been a way funnier story if they could have found a way to use the word “lotion” in it. God, do we have to teach EVERYONE these things?

Bruno September 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm

I’m not clicking any nasty politico link so I will make an informed opinion. They suck.

the problem child September 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm

Glad to see everyone is being czarcastic again.

Hooray For Anything September 8, 2009 at 6:02 pm

[re=404959]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Hmm…..I didn’t think about that. So what the conservatives are saying is that Obama is really a Monarchist. Or are they saying that Obama is both a czar and a Commie and if so, does this mean his government will eventually try and overthrow itself?

S.Luggo September 8, 2009 at 6:04 pm

Some little lady needs a Hair Styling haupt kommandant: http://images.politico.com/global/071214_lisaweb.jpg

Long Form Def Certificate September 8, 2009 at 6:05 pm

I am glad Falco did not live to see this day. He would have nowhere to turn.

Flanders September 8, 2009 at 6:09 pm

Oooh! A czar-hunt! I’m so excited. I wonder what I should wear!

user-of-owls September 8, 2009 at 6:11 pm

Van Jones Thread-o-Horror::This Thread

“We’re not in Kansas anymore”::”There’s no place like home!”

Jim89048 September 8, 2009 at 6:14 pm

I’ve always preferred Mavens, myself.

user-of-owls September 8, 2009 at 6:16 pm

[re=405035]S.Luggo[/re]: Tentacle Porn.

Extemporanus September 8, 2009 at 6:27 pm

[re=405043]user-of-owls[/re]::Counting Crows

Van Jones::Mr. Jones

AnnieGetYourFun September 8, 2009 at 6:29 pm

When I marry my Indian boyfriend, I will probably wear a czari. Under my burqa (it’s a part of my boyfriend’s muslin plot to take over the world, with socializms).

schvitzatura September 8, 2009 at 6:34 pm

[re=405045]Jim89048[/re]: Voivods and Tyrants and Satraps, oh my! Voivods and Tyrants and Satraps, oh my!

converse September 8, 2009 at 6:36 pm

Van Jones = Bad Czar
Van Johnson = Bad Czar
Van Halen = Bad Czar
Van Morrison = Good Czar

oldsparky September 8, 2009 at 6:37 pm

31 Czars… isn’t that an ice cream place in Moscow, Baskin-Russians 31 Czars?

user-of-owls September 8, 2009 at 6:44 pm

[re=405054]Extemporanus[/re]: Yeah, and here is where my utter, pathetic lack of musical/pop cultural awareness post-dating the death of Sid Vicious and Elvis Costello recording Bacharach really put me at a disadvantage. In all seriousness, I have not a clue whether that’s a tip o’ the cap or an Abner Louima salute. Hope to hear if it’s the latter, and will just lay off any ‘reply’ in your direction.

GreatOldOnesParty September 8, 2009 at 6:44 pm

[re=405046]user-of-owls[/re]: This is just priceless.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Avoid_tentacle_rape

Flanders September 8, 2009 at 6:46 pm

[re=404973]taylormattd[/re]: 202-255-7814

frumious_bandersnatch September 8, 2009 at 6:53 pm

“The Czars are revolting!”

“Yeah, they stink on ice.”

Also: [re=405055]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Congratulations on having penned this century’s answer to ‘I Shall Wear Purple’. Yours totally forces the other one to eat a bag of popcorn foreskins.

user-of-owls September 8, 2009 at 6:56 pm

[re=405066]GreatOldOnesParty[/re]: Sweet mamacita de jesus…if the author isn’t a regular here, can we take up a collection?

Holding Out for a Hero September 8, 2009 at 7:14 pm

[re=404956]One Yield Regular[/re]: Well done, well done.

Perhaps if the wingnuts would heed Barry’s call to have their children stay in school and study that wouldn’t be quite as funny.

Extemporanus September 8, 2009 at 7:20 pm

[re=405065]user-of-owls[/re]: That was by no means a wag o’ the plunger.

Unless, of course, you also nailed Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Mary Louise Parker, and assorted other other bird brains of a feather, for which Adam Duritz—the Sideshow Bob-haired leader singer of the Counting Crows—is nowadays more well known.

If that were case, not even my new favorites band Burt Barackarach or Sid Elvicious could save your damned soul…

S.Luggo September 8, 2009 at 7:48 pm

[re=405040]Flanders[/re]: Keep it simple. http://judicial-inc.biz/Drama_Picture.jpeg

MGBYG September 8, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Forgot:

Detroit’s Car Czar
Los Angeles’s Star Czar
Boston’s Bar Czar
Seattle’s Guitar Czar
NOLA’s Rebar Czar

Wait, i got more, but I hafta light the joint again…

KeepHopeyAlive September 8, 2009 at 8:17 pm

Status report: FU-CZAR

jasper f. krone September 8, 2009 at 8:17 pm

[re=405066]GreatOldOnesParty[/re]: What did Sailor Moon do to deserve that?

user-of-owls September 8, 2009 at 8:21 pm

[re=405109]jasper f. krone[/re]: See that outfit? She was asking for it.

BlueStateLibtard September 8, 2009 at 8:23 pm

If they’re revolting against the czars, that makes them….communists! Run for the hills!

S.Luggo September 8, 2009 at 8:26 pm

[re=405046]user-of-owls[/re]: Yet timeless. Glennda Beck:
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/RM/MedusaCaravaggio.jpg

Eric Cheney September 8, 2009 at 8:30 pm

That Politico has really got their business finger right on the sphincter of Obama’s plots.

house of the blue lights September 8, 2009 at 8:39 pm

[re=404943]vitira[/re]: Why. Is he heavier than a duck?

Also, didn’t the Chinese already cure that CZARS disease with face masks?

Mr Blifil September 8, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Bart Starr for Fart Czar.

Flanders September 8, 2009 at 9:10 pm

[re=405091]S.Luggo[/re]: *Red Bull all over shiny new laptop*

user-of-owls September 8, 2009 at 9:48 pm

[re=405118]S.Luggo[/re]: “Gorgon, take me away!”

deecaffeinated September 8, 2009 at 10:43 pm

Where do we ladies sign up to help his Czarship Enterprise Favreau fulfill his duties?

Carl Spakler September 8, 2009 at 10:47 pm

All these Czars and no Okhrana…they sure as hell made the trains run on time for the glorious motherland, well, at least until 1917. We need them now, as our fair city is being invaded by teabaggers on Saturday.

LoweredPeninsula September 8, 2009 at 11:22 pm

Jim VandeHei is horrible, just horrible for unleashing Politico on an unsuspecting public. It is not a surprised that he jumped from one garbage barge (the WaPo) to start another (Politico).

This isn’t about czars; this is about the horrible botched abortion that is Politico. To hell, you damnable fiend.

El Pinche September 8, 2009 at 11:31 pm

[re=405061]converse[/re]: Van Hagar: Worse czar evar

Click September 8, 2009 at 11:34 pm

Here’s to the good old Czars and Stripes.

El Pinche September 8, 2009 at 11:36 pm

[re=405069]frumious_bandersnatch[/re]: “..eat a bag of popcorn foreskins.”

I believe Anthony Bourdain has tried that already.

Jim89048 September 8, 2009 at 11:44 pm

Most biczar.

Keram2 September 8, 2009 at 11:50 pm

I must say, The Washington Independent has been on it’s shit lately. A truly fantastic blog.

Quasi September 9, 2009 at 12:21 am

The Politico’s czar count employed a state of their art redundancy check.

First they counted nostrils, then they divided by by 2.

LoweredPeninsula September 9, 2009 at 2:09 am

BTW, further off topic, but Jim VandeHei’s wife was a former staffer for Tom DeLay, I believe.

biggiantannoyingthing September 9, 2009 at 7:08 am

Ray LaHood is a Highway Czar.

JadedDIssonance September 9, 2009 at 10:28 am

Czar-ley’s Chocolate Factory just got Repo’d.

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