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God of Czarnage

Does anyone have an updated count of all the czars, special masters, and other unaccountable, non-confirmable policymakers the Obama administration has crowned?

The latest is Kenneth Feinberg, who will serve as pay czar, charged - presumably - with ensuring our financial institutions get back on track by sourcing the best talent that arbitrarily limited sums of money can buy.

Two months ago, Foreign Policy magazine put the czar count at 19 (one more than boasted by the 300-year Romanov Dynasty) and acknowledged the tally was conservative, in part because they pettily refused to acknowledge John Holdren as science czar, since doing so would be tantamount to agreeing with Michelle Malkin's characterization and "as a matter of principle [the author] won't count anything that horrifying woman does."

FP also noted its omission of the car czar, the economic czar, the cyber security czar, the AIDS czar, and the green jobs czar.

I guess that means we're arguably up to at least 26 czarhoods by now, many of which have been dreamt up since January.

And, as that horrifying woman notes, we may shortly witness the coronation of #27.

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