Ending The Rule of The Czars

Yesterday, in this post, I suggested 10 serious problems with our present Constitution, as interpreted and ignored in the current era.

I believe one of the major flaws in Article 2 is that it does not limit officers of the executive branch to those who must be confirmed by the Senate. Somehow, presidents of both parties have fallen into the habit of naming unconfirmed, non-cabinet "czars" for areas such as: combating illicit drugs; energy; cyber security, and; health, to name just a few.

To read the Constitution, it would not appear that these officials can be named, serve and be paid without Congressional approval. But they are, do and are, none the less.

It's time that the Constitution's Article 2 was sharpened to limit such appointments to those positions approved by Congressional legislation, along with compensation and budgetary amounts explicitly enumerated in the chief executive's budget.

What we have now is a substantial cabinet for nearly every president consisting of entirely unapproved, unnominated personnel doing significant government business without any check on them whatsoever by Congress and, thus, in effect, the people.