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OVER AT THE SHOP FLOOR, CARTER WOOD WRITES: OIRA Position is No ?Czar? and Sunstein Understands?

By Glenn Reynolds

OVER AT THE SHOP FLOOR, CARTER WOOD WRITES: OIRA Position is No ?Czar? and Sunstein Understands Regulation. “The resignation of the White House?s green jobs adviser, Van Jones, for his radicalism and outrageous statements has been accompanied by a serious outbreak of anti-czardom, i.e., criticism of the Obama Administration for creating ?czars? with great authority but no accountability. . . . It?s a good, legitimate issue, but too much of the criticism about czars has been indiscriminate and wrong. . . . One can certainly oppose his confirmation on the merits, but the efforts to paint him as a far-out animal rights, anti-gun or organ-harvesting extremist are only tangentially related to reality.” Read the whole thing. As I’ve said before, I think there are far more worthy targets than Sunstein, including Ron Bloom and John Holdren.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).