Obama Czar Cass Sunstein Resigns

Remember Obama Czar, Cass Sunstein? He wanted to give animals the right to sue people. Well, we have good news. If animals were pinning their hopes on Cass, he has failed them.

Via Daily Caller:

President Barack Obama’s regulatory czar Cass Sunstein is resigning his position in the Obama administration, the White House announced on Friday.

Sunstein, until now the administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s powerful Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, will return to Harvard Law School to resume the position he held before he joined Obama’s administration three and a half years ago. He will be Harvard’s Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy.

Sunstein and Obama first met when they both taught at the University of Chicago Law School. Sunstein is viewed as a progressive number cruncher who was supposed to rejuvenate regulation to maximize benefit and minimize cost. Essentially, his role was to economically facilitate the Obama administration’s big government plans.

Check out the bald-face lies told about Sunstein in a statement from Obama:

“From putting in place lifesaving protections for America’s families, to eliminating tens of millions of hours of paperwork burdens for our nation’s citizens and businesses, Cass has shown that it is possible to support economic growth without sacrificing health, safety, and the environment,” Obama said.

“Cass has shepherded our review of existing rules to get rid of those that cost too much or no longer make sense, an effort that is already on track to save billions of dollars. With these reforms and his tenacious promotion of cost-benefit analysis, his efforts will benefit Americans for years to come,” Obama said. “I can’t thank him enough for his friendship and for his years of exceptional service.”

Yeah, because if the Obama administration has done anything, it's reduced paperwork and regulations.

Using that logic, this is Sunstein's version of an organized office.

AUDIO: CASS SUNSTEIN OUTLINES HIS INTERNET PLAN

While appearing on WBZ in Boston, MA in 2001, Obama's Regulatory czar Cass Sunstein went on a virtually incoherent rant about how people who use the internet don't know what's best for them and if they don't voluntarily follow his agenda, they should be forced to do so by Congressional mandate. Mind you, he's allegedly advocating that everyone should have access to opposing views. Lost on him is that there are opposing views to his.

This guy has several screws loose. Intellectualism requires a willingness to consider others lesser human beings who can't think for themselves when they don't agree with you.

Sickness on display.



h/t to Naked Emperor

OBAMA CZAR SUNSTEIN WOULD RATHER WHINE

This is typical liberalism. Cass Sunstein, Obama's Regulatory Czar and hair-brained elitist who seems to have a difficult time staying organized is now crying about how libel laws should have more teeth. Aaron Klein writes about how Sunstein has also singled out Sean Hannity as a culprit that warrants re-defining libel. Sunstein apparently points to the Ayers / Obama relationship as an example in his book:

In his recently released book, "On Rumors," Sunstein specifically cited as a primary example of "absurd" and "hateful" remarks, reports by "right-wing websites" alleging an association between President Obama and Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers.

He also singled out radio talker Sean Hannity for "attacking" Obama regarding the president's "alleged associations."

With a position like that, it's no wonder Sunstein hasn't appeared on Hannity's radio OR television show. Anyone tasked with defending the position that Ayers and Obama weren't very close is simply defending the indefensible. The fact that Sunstein is one of Obama's Czars makes his position even more untenable. Think about it. Why would he attack the accusations that there was a significant relationship between Obama and Ayers while calling for tougher libel laws and refusing to defend his position?

Klein quotes an excerpt from Sunstein's book:

"In the era of the Internet, it has become easy to spread false or misleading rumors about almost anyone," Sunstein writes.

Hey Cass, where's that book tour? This is amazingly pathetic. Sunstein has the opportunity to set the record straight by using his book to publicly defend what's in it. But he doesn't do that. He simply uses his book to advocate policies that will silence those who disagree with him. As a professor with an office that looks like Pig Pen lives there at night, that's fine but as a Czar in the Obama White House, it's cause for concern.

Sunstein continues: "On the Internet as well as on talk radio, altruistic propagators are easy to find; they play an especially large role in the political domain. When Sean Hannity, the television talk show host, attacked Barack Obama because of his alleged associations, one of his goals might have been to promote values and causes that he cherishes."

Sunstein presents multiple new measures he argues can be used to stop the spread of "rumors."

He contends "freedom usually works, but in some contexts, it is an incomplete corrective."

An incomplete corrective? What does that even mean?! Maybe the page with the definition can be found in Cass' office - Good luck finding it!

Lastly, you gotta love this backward logic:

"It seems quite possible that a law that contained regulatory remedies would promote rather than undermine the 'freedom of speech,'" he writes.

Only a whacked out liberal would see free speech as something that results in squashing free speech.

Pretty obvious why he's not doing a book tour.

shhhhh

Read Klein's ENTIRE ARTICLE

VIDEO: CASS SUNSTEIN HEARTS ANIMALS

In a word, Inexplicable. Obama's newly confirmed Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein actually compares the plight of animals to that of black slaves from the 18th and 19th centuries. You will find no better example of how the left's words and rhetoric are exactly the opposite of what they mean.

How on earth can anyone call the equating of animals with humans a "progressive" idea? Uh, sounds a little like a "retrograde" idea to me.

Aaron Klein at WORLD NET DAILY has a story about how Sunstein appears to revere the views of an 19th century writer named Jeremy Bentham, who is considered an animal rights pioneer. Check out this written quote from Sunstein in 2002:

"I suggest that Bentham and Mill were not wrong to offer an analogy between current uses of animals and human slavery,"

What's next, Cass? Reparations paid to all dogs because of people like me who have canines we keep penned in our back yard when they're not inside enjoying the air conditioning, good treatment, warm beds, clean water and food? I know they enjoy such things because they have this ability of communicating by wagging their tails.

If you're a Christian, this notion is an overt slap on one of your already beat red cheeks.

Question: If God worked out of an office, do you think it might be a little bit more organized than this? My dog is more organized than Sunstein appears to be so maybe he does have a point. I've seen neater chicken coops. I wonder if the person on the other end of the phone is asking Cass if he remembers ever getting the TPS Report Memo.

GENESIS 9:2-3

2And the fear of you and the dread and terror of you shall be upon every beast of the land, every bird of the air, all that creeps upon the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are delivered into your hand.

3Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green vegetables and plants, I give you everything.

Sunstein's personal views and beliefs on spiritual matters notwithstanding (I don't know what they are) I simply find no way to reconcile the views expressed by Cass with the first book in Scripture without finding Sunstein in opposition to the Judeo-Christian God, Yahweh's teachings or on record as discarding the notion of Him altogether. I'd love to know his thoughts on that.



Be sure to read Klein's ENTIRE ARTICLE.

CASS SUNSTEIN AND 6 FRIENDLY REPUBLICANS

Cass Sunstein is Barack Obama's choice for Regulatory Czar. Yesterday, six Republican Senators voted for cloture and ended any chance of a filibuster. While Sunstein may have a high I.Q., he doesn't appear to be the least bit grounded in reality.

Before I list the six Republicans who basically cleared the way for Sunstein's confirmation, if ever there was a legitimate reason for a filibuster it would seem that the constitutionality of czars in general would provide that reason. In particular, the views of Sunstein absolutely warrant an extremely high level of scrutiny and he should be subjected to a thorough vetting as his writings and words indicate that he is a staunch opponent of this countrys 1st and 2nd Amendments. On top of that, the guy may just be nuts. Take a look at his office (pictured).

The sad thing about the picture to the left is how Cass likely interprets it personally. The only way someone as intellectual as he claims to be could interpret it is that such an enviornment reflects his high level of intellectualism. You know what it communicates to me? Disorganization and Chaos which is what we all know Sunstein's soon-to-be boss just adores.

A website called STOP SUNSTEIN has the most outlandish quotes from a man who apparently shares views similar to some who are right now in straight jackets.

"Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives …"

Keep that quote in mind as you read this one..

"[Humans’] willingness to subject animals to unjustified suffering will be seen … as a form of unconscionable barbarity… morally akin to slavery and the mass extermination of human beings."

What is the logical conclusion we should come to when you consider that Sunstein has also said that we should "ban hunting"?

Can you not envision a scenario in which Elmer Fudd shoots Bambi, whose family files a wrongful death lawsuit against Fudd while seeking monetary damages? Meanwhile, the state brings murder 1 charges against Elmer Fudd, who then faces Capital punishment.

As for the six senators that voted for cloture...

Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine).

It would have taken only four of those senators to vote against cloture to continue the filibuster. Based on Sunsteins extremely nutty views coupled with his wish to regulate communications on the internet, each one of those senators should be voted out of office based on what they did here.

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