GOP "humor": 'Friend czar' Facebook application

By GottaLaff

Those wacky Rushpublics, they slay me! They're known for their exquisite senses of humor, you know.

Note the dripping sarcasm.

I kid.

Honest.

The GOP has unveiled a new tactic in its ongoing effort to dominate social media sites like Twitter and Facebook: a sarcastic Facebook Application that assesses a "tax" on Facebook users deemed to have more than the average number of friends.

"Rise of the Imperial Friendship Fairness Czar" is the title of a news-like post on the GOP's recently redesigned website, under a section heading called "Voices of Reason."

The post explains that "a new Friendship Fairness Czar has recently been appointed, tasked with the daunting responsibility of making sure that every Facebook user is equal."

"This new Czar will help redistribute the wealth of friendship from those who are too popular to those who are poor in friends," it continues.

Aren't they clever? Here's another excerpt:

"An audit of your Facebook account shows that your total number of friends, [The application prints your actual number], is above the average of 120 friends for all Facebook users. The Friendship Fairness Czar has determined that you have an excessive and unfair number of friends and has devised a solution to spread the wealth of friendship. Please click on the postcard to be assessed your tax."

Of course, knowing these people as I don't, the Facebook followers will take this whole campaign very seriously and rush to the nearest finger paint set, grab some tea-stained poster board, scrawl a few key misspelled words about "friend czars", salivate profusely, and pester ClusterFox to start promoting another 12-man march.

Everyone else will realize that this was nothing more than a poor attempt at snark.

Reagan, Bush 41 advisers: Subjecting "czars" to Senate confirmation could be unconstitutional

By GottaLaff



Say you're czar-ry, Rushpubs:

In today’s Washington Post, attorneys David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, who served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush [...] argue that in fact, subjecting all these advisers to a Senate confirmation process would perhaps be unconstitutional:

The White House czars are presidential assistants charged with responsibility for given policy areas. As such, they are among the president’s closest advisers. In many respects, they are equivalent to the personal staff of a member of Congress. To subject the qualifications of such assistants to congressional scrutiny — the regular confirmation process — would trench upon the president’s inherent right, as the head of an independent and equal branch of the federal government, to seek advice and counsel where he sees fit.

Czar(ry) seems to be the hardest word.

Oh, and in case anyone forgot:

[T]hose benign Bush Czars, which included:

• Cyber Security Czar
• Regulatory Czar
• AIDS Czar
• Bird Flu Czar
• Intelligence Czar
• Health IT Czar
• Katrina Czar
• Manufacturing Czar
• Drug Czar
• Domestic Policy Czar
• War Czar
• Copywright Czar
• Abstinence Czar
• Mine Safety Czar
• Latin American Czar
• WTO Health Czar
• Corruption Czar
• Privacy Czar
• Health Czar

Video- DNC Takes On "Czar" Meme

White House: Czar critics taking marching orders from Glenn Beck

By GottaLaff

Remember this?

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Now the White House is fighting back against this insanity:

Now the White House and its allies are accusing administration critics of taking marching orders from talk show host Glenn Beck, and pointing out that George W. Bush's administration appointed dozens of "czars" during his eight years in office.

"I think it's been somewhat remarkable that in previous administrations, so-called criticism of this has been a bit deafening, the silence has been deafening, only to have it come around as a political issue now," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

Later in the afternoon, White House communications director Anita Dunn posted a "reality check" about czars on the administration's Web site, noting that the term is not an official White House title and that several of those Obama appointed "czars" were actually approved by the Senate.

Wrong! You lie! "Czar" is a black socialist Nazi commie Hussein Obama word!

The Democratic National Committee was more blunt: "In leveling these ludicrous attacks, Republicans have crowned themselves the czars of hypocrisy," DNC press secretary Hari Sevugan said. Party officials blasted out six different e-mails to reporters on Wednesday flagging the Bush administration's reliance on "czars," citing news reports that going back to 2001.

Hypocrisy czars. I'm likin' that one. I may have to steal it.

"Most telling of the credibility of these attacks is that they come from the same Republican party that didn't utter a peep about the 47 documented czars in the Bush administration even when the so called 'abstinence czar' was caught soliciting," Sevugan said, referring to Randall Tobias, a top State Department who resigned in 2007 after he was caught soliciting prostitutes.

Boy Georgie had a Prostitute Czar. Perfect.

VIDEO: Rachel Maddow's excellent "Czar Struck" eviscerates Republican smears

By GottaLaff

Rachel does it again. If you ever need arguments to knock down the Rushpublics' latest Campaign-o'-Wrong, watch this video, bookmark it, memorize it, and laugh heartily:

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Video- Fox News accompanies discussion of Obama administration's "czars" with ominous music

Ex-Bush ‘domestic policy czar’ Rove rips czars as ‘giant expansion of presidential power’

By GottaLaff

KKKarl Rove Tweets:

To which Think Progress responds:

It is surprising that Rove finds the appointment of czars to be “a giant expansion of presidential power” because he actually served as the “domestic policy czar” in the Bush White House. In fact, President Bush himself appointed numerous czars in order to deal with various public crises and controversies, including a “cybersecurity czar,” “regulatory czar,” “AIDS czar,” “bird-flu czar” and “Katrina czar.” Moreover, Rove’s criticism of Obama is ironic, given his role in an administration that was marked by the expansion of executive power.

Rove's not even remotely close to being the "genius" the corporate media made him out to be, now is he?