President Obama to Appoint Ron Bloom Manufacturing Czar

OMG, not another Czar??? I am beginning to feel like I am back in the USSR.

God, I hope they bothered to google this one.

why is no one watching the networks???

Journalists, stop calling these people czars. That’s not their titles and no one in the administration refers to them that way. It’s not even technically correct. Just stop it. They’re advisors.

So who’s the Czar watching the Czar’s?

It would be really great if the news media stopped using the word Czar to describe every new appointment. The Republicans and the far right have decided to do what they do best-take a word , distort it, and then use it in a negative fashion. Surely, ABC must have noticed what the Rush Limbaugh’s and Glen Beck’s of this world are doing with the word “Czar”. It is not a factual description of an administrative appointee, so knock it off already.

When Ron Bloom isn’t overseeing one of the areas he’s responsible for National Economic Council, and the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Energy, Labor, and Car Czar, what will he do in his spare time? Hang out with his union buddies or play basket ball with the president?

I’m no fan of Obama (understatement heavy), but I’m amazed that conservatives are filling the airwaves (and comment threads) will all this talk about losing their liberty to Obama. That it’s time to take up arms to protect our civil liberties from his “socialist” agenda. Etc.
It’s amazing because it was the *previous* president who shredded the constitution with conservatives and Republicans cheering him on! And take it from me — an actual democratic socialist — Obama’s embrace of Wall Street and corporate business pretty-much-as-usual ain’t “socialist” in the least.
Plenty of us warned that once you let a president use signing statements to ignore laws (as Bush did almost daily), issue executive orders that allow the president to label a citizen an “enemy” and imprison them indefinitely without charge, subcontract war and violence to paramilitary forces like Blackwater at home and abroad, etc., you can be darn sure subsequent presidents aren’t going to give up those powers easily. Obama is using them regularly, and gearing up to formalize the detain-without-charge nonsense that Bush started.
It’s funny how the idea of making sure everyone has some basic health insurance is the last straw for these people. The outrageousness of trying to do such a thing! Sure, cut taxes and run up a huge debt like Bush did, transfering wealth to his cronies, and push through a prescription drug program that enriches the pharmaceutical companies *without any attempt to pay for the plan with tax or budget offsets* — that’s okay.
Meanwhile, utter and total silence from these phony Patrick Henrys when it comes to the corporate-government nexus that truly threatens our democratic ideals and our liberty.
Huxley warned that we’d enslave ourselves if enough pleasures and amusements and enjoyable distractions were sent our way. Glenn Beck — whose marketing slogan includes the word “entertainment” — goes off on Van Jones, the self-important, self-promoting “green jobs” “czar”, and that’s the issue so many are focused on?
Wake up, folks. And put away those guns you keep bringing to health care events. Instead, organize for getting corporate money out of politics completely, and overhauling campaign finance, and pushing reforms to make our elections more democratic. You’re being suckered by TV entertainers.

Who is Ron Bloom? What is his history and Qualifications?

“Congress returns this week, and here’s hoping that its members, Democrats in particular, learned a little something from this summer’s town hall meetings. The lesson to be drawn from these occasionally raucous events is that America is on the verge of–or already knee-deep in–one of those moments that periodically roil the country and rearrange our preconceived notions about public life. And not a moment too soon.”
The fun part is watching the dunces striving so mightily to remain in denial.

So is this man a or communist, may be a radical?????
He is not?
Well Obama might have got ‘one’ right.
I guess I will have to watch FOX news to know who these people are.
The rest of the media will not find out or care.
And you call yourselves journalists?
What a joke???

Who would be best for transportation ‘czar’ – Laura Bush or Chris Christie?

Obama certainly is a master at community organizing. In a few short months he has organized 30 plus appointed ‘Advisors’ or Czars to run our country. Who needs the House and Senate when you have the ‘Oh so very brilliant and talented” comrades that are they only ones who can save us all. They are the very spine of Obama. The foolish mainstream media cannot, or worse, will not see the forest for the trees. The Great Organizer and his band of brothers wers granted the golden pass of being ‘vetted’ and was given the chance to spin his devastating web of progressive socialists to write the bills that congress doesn’t read and can’t explain. Take a good look at the rest of his advisor’s backgrounds and find the common thread. Can’t wait to see what happens in the coming week.

Another Bloomin’ Czar? Hows about you
media guys get on board and laugh along
with the rest of us? Or is being a bit
critical of President Howdy Doody
strictly “Verbotin” as they used to
say in East Germany…

This “czar” business is getting pretty old. How many “counselors” or “advisers” or “Czars” does one person need. Seriously. Is it because he needs someone to blame for everything??

Yet another CZAR??? Come on where is the media on this?? These Czars are zero accountability to anyone except Obama. They were not elected NOR are they even Constitutional. Its way past time the press take this on and stop coddling this insanity. If you think Van Jones was NOT vetted, you would be wrong. Obama knew exactly who Jones and his ideology was and that should raise a 100 red flags to begin the process of exposing what lies beneath his other 40 something Czars. Start doing your damn job(media, press) and remind us what journalism USE TO MEAN.

thats what they did in the soviet union only they didn’t call them czars they called them commisar’s. obama has to quit this nonsense and stop acting like a communist

@ Amazed: Conservatives were upset with Bush which is why he only won by razor-thin margins AND the Republicans have lost 2 consecutive elections. But anywho, what does Republicans have to do with any of this? They don’t have power in Washington, really since the Dem takeover in ’06. If Obama wanted to pass his agenda, he should be able to do so. Why not? Maybe because the Left and Dems wants to keep using Republicans as strawmen because attacking the American people would backfire on them like it did during August. The rest of your post is pure bovine scat.

..It is the bypassing of the normal chains of command and of the checks and balances between branches of government.
Posted by: moderate
That’s true, but every president, including GW Bush used signing statements to ‘circumvent’ any constitutional prohibitions to procede with policy decisions, as I understand it, GW Bush used this process a great deal. The constitution really doesn’t exist, if the executive branch of the government can bypass it whenever it sees fit, and, we won’t know about it for years, if ever.
We all want our country to work for all it’s citizens, sometimes I think we get caught up in a mythological representation of America as we see it in movies, and read about in books.
We are all ‘indoctrinated’ by our schooling.
We speak of ‘the Founders’ and the ‘heroes of the American revolution’, certainly noble and uplifting but does it really apply to 2009 America?

Creating a parallel gov’t. not responsible to the Congress with no background investigation, no vetting procedure. This is a power-grab, an abuse of presidential authority. How many godamn Czars does this president need? Gov’t. is the PROBLEM not the solution. Is this another Van Jones with radical views? Is this just a pay-off to union supporters? Is it purely a personal pay-off to a supporter? Who the hell knows but you can be sure the mainstream media will not investigate – the mainstream media is now part of the Ministry of Propaganda – I’m waiting for a new Czar for that too, any day now. What I’m sure of is that I don’t trust this administration for a minute, all smoke & mirrors, misrepresentations, outright lies & deception, & incredible incompetence.
Obama is scary, that’s the bottom line.

Attention left-wing liberals – We have read commie Saul Alinsky`s book “Rules for Radicals” and using his methods he details in the book against you.
Page 130: “The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”.
Bye, bye Van Jones. Next?
And the fifth rule will be used more and more: “Ridicule is mans most potent weapon”.
We need more jokes about the incompetence of Team Obama and his Politburo.
And the third rule: “Whenever possible go outside the experience of your enemy.”
Prime target: the slums and ghettos of inner cities that have been controlled by Democrats (from school board member to Mayor) at every level for close to a century. Who is to blame for keeping these poor and educated in the slums other than the people that use the poor to pad their own lifestyles and take their votes? Answer: the Democrats.
Read the liberal´s handbook, “Rules for Radicals” and use the methods against them.

Mimi – You’re absolutely right – BOTH parties are responsible. We have a professional political class that is very much out of touch with most Americans. But at this point in time, the Republicans are less dangerous than the looney-leftists that have hijacked the Democratic Party. Long term, we might need a third party option to challenge both Republicans & Democrats.

Why do we have a shadow government?
How long before Obama ignores the elected government?

Is this Ron Bloom better than Van Jones?

TJ, I see your point about signing statements: “That’s true, but every president, including GW Bush used signing statements to ‘circumvent’ any constitutional prohibitions to procede with policy decisions, as I understand it, GW Bush used this process a great deal.” And candidate Obama railed against Bush’s abuse of the technique (to be clear, he never said he would not use it as well, and I readily acknowledge that he left that option open to himself) and promised he would rein in the practice, using it rarely.
So far this year, he has signed 5 such statements, outpacing Bush. There is a website connected to Pace law school that makes these statements available, but the “transparent” administration does not make it easy to find them on its own website. So do you find that troubling, or is it a case of, “well, Bush did it so it’s okay for Obama to do it, because he does it for better motives.”

Only in America.

Has Obama found away around the Constitution?

Obama-Holder choose to
prosecute those that kept us safe after a murderous attack but either facilitate or turn a blind eye to freeing same murders. His next appointee should be a Perfidy Czar!
September 06, 2009
Obama knew about Lockerbie Bomber Transfer
Clarice Feldman
It seems that Obama is not going to get away with blaming the Brits for releasing the Lockerbie bomber. At least not if Downing Street can help it. The British say the White House and Secretary of State Clinton were fully informed of the decision and are deflecting blame onto the British now that the decision has proven to be unpopular.
(Of course, given how the American press hides stories, like Van Jones that reflect badly on the President, unless Americans seek out alternate media or read the foreign press the White House deflection will probably work.)
Here is how the Daily Mail reported the Obama administration’s knowledge of the transfer of Megrahi:
British officials claim Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return.
The officials say the Americans spoke out because they were taken aback by the row over Megrahi’s release, not because they did not know it was about to happen.
‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide.
‘We would never do anything about Lockerbie without discussing it with the US. It is disingenuous of them to act as though Megrahi’s return was out of the blue.’

Catch a falling Czar and put him in your pocket, save him for a rainy day.
Catch a falling Czar and put him in your pocket, never let him fade away.
Or,
Twinkle, twinkle little Czar, how I wonder who you are…

just freakin’great. another ivy leaguer. his tenure should go just swimmingly.

“How long before obama ignores the elected government?”
written by drjohn @ 8 sumptin on 9/7
To hell with the elected government……he is ignoring the will of the American people!
He was never going to do what we want. He will shove down our throats obama Care whether we want it or not. It has never been about the good of our nation….it has been about how the future sees and how he sees himself according to revisionist history.
Barry is hands down the worst person to EVER be seated President. He knows absolutely nothing about business, government, people, National Defense, the economy or growing a garden in his backyard!!
Barry is……who he surrounds himself with. Right….. Van, Jeremiah, Louie, David, Saul, Bernadine, etc,etc,etc?

If the tone of these comments are any indiction of how the general population feels about President Obama, then his Secret Service detail was right in re-dubbing his code name – OTB (short for One-Term Barry)!

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 .

It boggles the mind that this is not on the front page. Just took a look & Jake’s article is the only thing on ABC about this racist nut resigning.
Tapper is about the only objective journalist here any more.
I hope his job is secure…he sticks out like a sore thumb in this place.

I assume this new manufacturing czar is going to do his best to unionize whatever remaining manufacturing jobs that have not already been driven overseas by the unions, correct?
Gotta find spots for all those unemployed UAW jokers that bankrupted GM & Chrysler (Ford next) with the help of weak, inept management using band aid brand corporate financial planning.
So, tell me what is Blooms background?
AFL-CIO like the new New York Fed chair’s???
Can’t wait until we remake this place into a workers utopia like the old Soviet Union…

So, we have to have a “manufacturing czar”?
Are we admitting that the end goal is central planning and control of the economy yet? Or are we pretending he’s going to “advise” and not run roughshod over companies?
Hey, maybe we’ll run another GM style setup and tell a CEO he’s fired from his company because the Government says so… While also pretending we aren’t taking anything over.
Does anyone get tired of pretending?

Czar is the Russian word for Caesar, which my dictionary translates to 1. any emperor, or 2. tyrant or dictator.
I think Pravda is right: Barry is Caesar and the cronies he is hiring are his commissars.

How many taxpayer dollars do all these CZAR’s get paid…

Apparently BO’s Cabinet is a bunch of incompetent figure heads…

A new way to pay off your political supports… make them a CZAR…. with NO Senate oversite….. hummmmmm

Figaro. You’re the perfect example of an Obama supporter.
You think that Homeland Security should suppress our right to free speech, that’s very Democratic of you, you’ll be right at home in the People’s Republic of Obama where criticism of the Fearless Leader is a punishable offense. We don’t need a ”cult of personality” leader in America. And that racist argument is pretty stale already as is the ”Bush did it” argument. We’re not the racists, you can save that comment for Rev. Wright, Mr Gates the self-important egomaniac, & Van Jones whose opinions are so beyond the pale it would be funny had he not been appointed as Czar by someone who evidently shares his world view.

“When Congress enacted a law in 1982 that created a drug czar, President Reagan scorned the provision:” “The creation of another layer of bureaucracy within the Executive Branch would produce friction, disrupt effective law enforcement, and could threaten the integrity of criminal investigations and prosecutions.… The so-called “drug Czar” provision was enacted hastily without thoughtful debate and without benefit of any hearings.”

So why do the “Commissars” matter?
Because, for the most part, they are policy wonks comprising an elite liberal thinktank for the President. They are the people he and the Congress consult.
So far Obama has allowed Congress to write the legislation that has been proposed. Most assume that those in Congress are writing it. Think about that — people that profess that they don’t read the bills are writing them?
Uh-uh. I don’t think so. The staffers with major input from the policy wonks — the Czars/Commissars – are writing the legislation. That’s why Congress Critters don’t know what is in the legislation. That is why they can only recite talking points at their Town Hall meetings that have been passed down by the Administration and the parties’ National Committees.
For heavens’ sake, Harry Reid thanked just resigned Green Jobs Czar Van Jones for writing a great majority of the Stimulus Bill (green jobs – weatherizing people’s houses?) and Jones also wrote much of the Cap & Trade legislation that was passed by the House and awaits a vote by the Senate. That legislation allows the Federal government to reach into areas it never has before — all the way down to setting standards in local counties and cities for zoning and building standards.
Jones is an advocate of social justice. He has blamed white people for poisoning hispanic field workers. He was not just some low level advisor as the MSM and left blogosphere is now trying to spin it.
Even the commissars that are thrown in for balance, and politically Cass Sunstein who leans libertarian in most things would be one of them, embrace at least one major pet project that would not be considered mainstream in the United States (with Sunstein it is requiring people to Opt Out of being an organ donor rather allowing you or your surviving family to decide whether or not your organ’s will be donated).
Other Commissars are knee cappers like Ron Bloom — Union negotiators who know how to use “leverage” to get what they want.
Don’t be fooled that these people are just “advisers”. They are the people planning and writing significant portions of the laws that will be dictated to our citizens. Many are employees that serve at the will of the President and report only to him.
We see how well Van Jones was vetted. What about the rest?

If Obama were truly serious about restoring vigor to our manufacturing sector, then he’d propose ideas that have been proven to stimulate the creation of wealth like corporate tax cuts, reductions in environmental regulations, and tort reform that eliminates frivolous lawsuits. Unless and until we hear these sound solutions coming from Washington, we’ll get nothing in the way of the changes needed to restore our standard of living.

“If Obama were truly serious about restoring vigor to our manufacturing sector, then he’d…”
… appoint a manufacturing czar with some experience in manufacturing.

@bailey;
Thank you for the definition of Czar. I told to myself with all the Czar we have here how come we are not in Russia. I believe the Obama Administration needs a little dressing up.

“How about the Czar that believes in forced sterilizations/abortions. The Science Czar? He also believes the government has the power to limit the number of children a couple can have.”
Yeah yeah, back in July Glenn Beck said the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, “has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.”
Politifact rated that one a “Pants on Fire” lie.

They will have us in chains and we will be writing letters saying how terrable it is!
The late great U.S.A.,we had it all,
and we let the politicians take it away from us.we wanted to be a democracy and we forgot all the rules of being a republic!

Lordy is Obama doing some preaching in Cinncinati at the AFL-CIO.
Preaching to the choir.
He’s even using his best southern preacher accent.
I think he’a alittle angry and perhaps emasculated by all of the attacks lately.
Or maybe mad because he had to let Van Jones go.
He’s mocking and taunting his critics.
Also stuttering like crazy when he goes of the prompter.
It’s as if he’s going to say “lipstick on a pig” at any moment.
Someone please tell Obama he’s president, no need to keep campaigning.

Soylent Green. Somehow, over the years, we have allowed gov’t. to become a monster, this isn’t even a partisan issue since both political parties are responsible, if you can even use the word responsible when referring to our irresponsible & rather unaccountable political class. Now, with far left ideologues in power, the whole thing is really out of hand. Our political class is so out of touch with the people they theoretically represent it isn’t funny but our responsibility as citizens is to bring them back to reality or throw them out. Personally, I’ve had it with ”experts” with zero real-life experience & no common sense.

NO MORE CZARS!!!!!!!!!! We have more czars in 9 months than Russia had during their entire history!!! Get rid of these jack a**es and let the cabinet do their jobs!!!!! I hope the real media vets everyone of them and sends them into oblivion like jones!

Is this one a communist too? I guess I’ll have to go vet him to find out.
I know how, I’ll do a Google search.
Oh that is so much more efficient and effective than how the white house does it.
Step one find out if has any little things that might upset the American public.
Step two use the internet to find out FIRST.
Step three don’t forget not give a crap if you find out the man is a self described Marxist and anarchist.
Step four don’t forget to not give a damn that Americas might be upset that your DID hire a COMMUNIST/MARXIST ANARCHIST.
And we trust this man to write a health care bill all by his lonesome????

“We must do more to harness the power of American ingenuity and productivity so that we can put people back to work and unleash our full economic potential”
So when do we all get our cars that the taxpayers are due for you dumping all taxpayer money into the system and OWNING a large portion of GM?
IT is taxpayer money correct? We did give them money to screw those evil bondholders (you remember those evil wicked retired teachers and police officers)
Do we all get to take turns to go to the shareholder meetings?
Still waiting to find out if this guy is a Communist Marxist and or Anarchist.
No comment Mr President? No? Not a drinking buddy of yours.
Is it time for your administration to attack the CIA seniors or police departments again? NO? Just hire another communist that worked so well for you last time.

Bloom’s statement will read: “A strong manufacturing sector is a cornerstone of American competitiveness and a critical part of President Obama’s economic strategy.
THEN THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE WAY.

ABC journalists please step up and give us more critical reporting of all of these “czars” and all of the President’s men.

Question is how is this guy related to the Unions he represents? Create jobs funny that is what the stimulis was going to do. In time of universal Deciept telling the truth is revolutionary.

We need to allow drilling to add jobs, increase taxes and royalty payments to the treasurt, and reduce dependence on mid-East oil.

Have to wonder how many “Czars” it will take before the “revolution” starts…

In other words, Mr. Bloom helped screw bondholders, stole $50 billion from taxpayers and gave it to the thugs at the UAW. His time as the head of the Steelworkers Union is why there is not steel industry in the US. His goonish stupidity drove manufacturers overseas, his union boss/Boca Condo/payola is why unions are hated by Americans.
To praise Ron Bloom, and not point out that he is a millionaire thugs is like saying Tony Soprano was in the waste management business.

Another Van Jones appointment? Does he have a criminal background? Has he paid his taxes?
This administration wants to bypass congress by appointing Czars. Congress gets no say in these matters and so we end up with another Chicago crony. This appointing of czars stinks of cronyism and I hope the media gets their head out of their arse and starts doing some investigating on their own.
And you wonder why Obama’s poll numbers are going south! ABC please do your job and vet this guy.

Since we are still presumably in America, can all of the supposedly high-IQ types in the current administration work on finding a better word/title than “czar”? Yes, they can.

OH MY GOD–after Obama gave us a new health care program that will cause all seniors to have to march down to the local hospice prior to having an anal probe by space aliens prior to being turned into spam, and after his brainwashing speech to the children where he forces our little babies to pledge allegiance to the kenyun sun gods, now this? We all know that the new czars are worse than commie pinkos–they also eat wheat-grass inflected yogurt every day. EVERY DAY! Beam me up, Scotty,I am sooooo afraid….

It seemed like a good time to google “how to catch wild pigs” and see how close we are to having a gate close.
With each czar appointed and each bill in the house we draw closer.
Does anyone know where H.R.45 stands?

And just what are we as a nation going to manufacture after all the small businesses are run out of town by this administrations policies and taxes. Nobody in their right mind will want to endure the penalties they will get by opening or staying in business. Most are already getting out of the country!

Why do we need so many czars? These special advisers receive automatic appointment from the president – they do not go through the approval process/questioning with Congress, unlike other White House appointments. If Van Jones had been forced to go through a Congressional investigation and questioning to receive approval, I doubt he would have made the cut. It would have saved the White House a great deal of embarrassment.
We have a checks-and-balance system in place for a reason. Stop with the czars or put them through the regular Congressional approval process others in the administration must go through.

Bloom was a “restructuring expert” for U.S. Steelworkers, union one would suppose. Since he had a hand in gifting the U.S. automobile industry to the UAW, he is a great choice for “manufacturing czar.” If, of course, your objective is to unionize most, if not all, of private manufacturing in the U.S. That will be a great boost to productivity, and thus wages, and thus the competitive position of U.S. industry vs foreign competition. NOT! They can’t be this stupid, can they? Or are they really setting out to destroy the U.S. economy so they can usher in the socialist utopia. I’m not a conspiracy guy but even decisions by coin flip would give them a 50% improvement in their success rate.

I’ve worked over 20 years in manufacturing, now I’m out of a job. I am waiting patiently for my shovel ready job.

This guy is another Mao lover- he and Dunn in the last week in the news. He doesn’t extol H. Ford, Bill Gates, or any other business icon. The only guy he can talk about is Mao and, on top of that, he says that Capitalism is a lie and that it’s all about political power anyway. Another Fabian Socialist. The part that really pisses me off is that now they fell so empowered they come out publicly and state their real agenda and views. How many of them does obama have to appoint before Americans get off their rear ends and stop this.