The Czars v. Commissars

The czar was the autocrat of Russia. He was the highest leader in the land who answered to no one. Therefore, the current usage of the word czar for the political functionaries of the BHO administration, is a misnomer. There is precedent for the figurative use of the term for certain ad hoc administrators. I remember hearing of a baseball czar before there was the drug czar, who was the precursor of our current spat of czars. Now I understand we have 30 or so in charge of different functions of the government.

I propose the use of the more accurately descriptive term, Commissar. The Bolsheviks apparently started using the Russian equivalent of this term that was then used by the USSR. A Commissar was an operative of the Party given responsibility for and oversight of a certain aspect of the government. That sound like a much closer description of the duties of our various czars.

In the communist USSR, the government exercised control over virtually all of society, so the Commissars power must have been vast. Of course, in theory, he answered to the Party through some committee or other. I would imagine, more often that not, a bullet trumped any parliamentary debate regarding his performance in office.

Our Senate has no advise and consent function regarding the current Czars. The Czars are purely organs of the Democrat Party and do its bidding. They apparently answer only to the "central committee" of BHO, comrade Axilrod, comrade Immanuel, and a few unnamed others. They really should be called what they are, the peoples Commissars.