Cass Sunstein, Machination Czar

Cass Sunstein, Machination Czar

Keeping up with leftist hypocrisy and machinations is a challenge. It’s also challenging to sanity. As with the little engine that could, I think I can keep up with the former but the latter becomes more difficult by the day.

The latest in a long list of hypocrisies involves Cass R. Sunstein, a “legal scholar” on the short list for next next Obama nominee for the Supreme Court, is one of the multitude of Obama czars. Now ensconced as grand poobah in charge of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, by virtue of the powers vested in that office and his core values as a human being, Sunstein is poised to wreak more damage to the nation’s values than almost any other Obamaczar.

Sunstein’s OIRA, a division of the OMB, “carries out several important functions, including reviewing Federal regulations, reducing paperwork burdens, and overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs,” according to its website.

Salon.com published an article, “Nudge on Trial,” bemoaning the “inquisition” of the “iconoclast,” Sunstein. Last I heard, “iconoclast” describes a person who attacks cherished but erroneous beliefs. Sunstein is indeed an attacker but the subjects of his attacks are anything but erroneous, that is, unless one believes the right to privacy is readily violable by government or that government is entitled to subvert dissension by infiltrating and destroying dissenters.

Salon depicts Sunstein as something of a martyr forced to submit to overbearing Republicans by making his “umpteenth appearance before a congressional committee.” I’m not quite sure how many “umpteenth” amounts to but the article amounted to a hatchet job on Republicans whose new House majority wants to rid the nation of the administration’s job-crippling industry regulations.

Sunstein made that umpteenth appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and proceeded to engage in evasions and semantical word games rather than attempting to clarify the administration’s efforts to create jobs by eliminating regulatory roadblocks.

In a bow to House Republican majority, at the same time a masterful stroke in the fine art of deceit, Obama pledged to explore ways to limit government regulations on business, a group as foreign to the community organizer as the concept of a real job. At the same time he said that new regulations will be necessary in order to eliminate old regulations since we all know the best route to deregulation is more regulation, right?

And, who will be in charge of all that regulatory re-shuffling? None other than the man for whom the job of chief government regulator is a virtual Nirvana, Cass Sunstein.

With his ethically-suspect background, it’s no wonder the Republicans don’t trust him.

Sunstein is the same guy . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3522)