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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The current controversy over the number of "czars" in the Obama administration enjoys the rare distinction of being a political fight in Washington that everybody wants to have. Republicans, eager to paint President Obama as a power-mad totalitarian, have created czar lists (Obama has 30 or 34 czars, depending on whom you ask), written czar op-eds, held czar press conferences, and even gone Beck on the White House's fondness for appointed functionaries. Democrats, in turn, have launched into full-frontal I-Know-You-Are-but-What-Am-I mode, reminding Republicans that just months ago, the Bush ...
To be sure, the Democratic race for the nomination has proven an entertaining spectacle. Websites like this one would not exist were it not for the incredible interest that Americans have taken in the outcome of this hotly-contested battle. Debate ratings are way, way up. Record Democratic turnout has been the story-line in virtually all of the primaries thus far. Every utterance, gesture, and facial expression of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is mined for potential significance. The slightest miscue is exploited for political gain. Of course, somehow overlooked in the ferocity of the ...
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