Senator Byrd objects to Obama's czars

Apparently Senator Byrd, who is 91 years old and in his 50th year in the U.S. Senate, is upset that President Obama is appointing too many "czars" to head various areas of U.S. policy.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/25/byrd-gives-obama-heat-over-czars/



The crazy thing to me is the fact Robert Byrd is so old he was born in a year where there was an actual tsar - Nicholas II - ruling Russia. (Although he abdicated just a few months before the Senator was born.)

I also find it fascinating that Robert Byrd has been around for 41% of America's entire history.

Part of me is also curious what the old Russian emperors would have thought if you had told them that hundreds of years from their time the world would still have tsars - only instead of ruling large empires, they would be stuck trying to oversee reform of health care bureaucracy.