Keeping Up with Kamelot

Keeping up with Kamelot II appears to be more difficult than keeping up with the Kardashians, as the media-Democrat axis goes into full shape-shifting mode, performing more lifts and tucks than Beverly Hills sees in a year. Scott has already pointed out how Kamala’s portfolio as border “czar” is being re-written with invisible ink, and no one in the media seems to have any lemon juice handy.

To be sure, the KIDs (that’s short for “Kamala Immigration Deniers”) are correct strictly speaking: to be a true policy “Czar” you have to hail from the Tzarist region of Russia; everything else is just sparkling Hapsburg aristocracy.

Seriously, the media think Americans are that stupid. The term “Czar” for a senior policy coordinator in the White House dates back at least to William Simon in 1974, who was the first “energy czar.” There have been policy czars in every administration since. The joke during the Obama administration was that it had more czars than the Romanovs.

In British politics, anyone tasked with coordinating policy over several agencies on a single issue or problem was called a “supremo.” So I say let’s go with “Supremo Harris” instead. In fact there was an entire episode of “Yes, Minister” on why no sensible person should ever want to be a “Supremo.”

One can easily imagine an interagency meeting with Supremo Harris on border security going something like this:

 

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