Cass Sunstein to Leave WH ‘Regulatory Czar’ Post & Return to Harvard Law School
- Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:05am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s “regulatory czar,” will leave his administration post and head back to Harvard Law School later this month, Politico reported Friday morning:
Sunstein, a celebrity academic who met Barack Obama when they were both teaching at University of Chicago Law School was among the world’s most-quoted law professors when he came to Washington in 2009. He was named the new president’s chief regulatory enforcer (often called the “regulatory czar”) as head of OIRA (“oh-eye-ruh”), an office that gets little attention but is among an administration’s most potent levers.
Flashback: (Beck in 2009: ‘The most dangerous czar’)
Like Obama, Sunstein embraces “behavioral economics” – an emphasis on human behavior, rather than abstract theory, for identifying incentives to promote desired financial and environmental activity by individuals and corporations. The field of study supplied early underpinnings for Obama’s plans for health care and financial regulation.
Sunstein became a lightning rod for liberal activists who had hoped the administration would be more aggressive with regulatory policy.
(Flashback: Cass Sunstein says the conservative view of the Constitution requires a ‘time machine’)
As TheBlaze’s Erica Ritz defined earlier this week, “Sunstein has long-advocated “nudging” Americans in the direction they really ought to go, by defining their choices and making the less desirable ones more inconvenient. No one is forcing you to do anything…just helping to guide your decisions.”
At Harvard, Sunstein will hold the position of Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and director of the school’s of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy, according to Politico.
“For the last three and a half years, Cass Sunstein has helped drive a series of historic accomplishments on behalf of the American people,” Obama said in a statement. “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.”
Sunstein is married to Samantha Power, who heads the National Security Council’s Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights and is a champion of the “Responsibility to Protect” United Nations initiative.
News of Sunstein’s departure comes after a report last week that the Obama administration is holding off on implementing “costly and controversial” regulations until after the election, so as not to hurt the president’s chances.
This post has been updated since it was first published.
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Comments (191)
Coralchristie
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:45amHe’s fulfilled his mission of destruction and put his part of the machine to destroy America together…now he’ll go back to Harvard to continue indoctrination of students to socialism.
Report Post »freeus
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 9:08amTake your wife with you.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 9:43amHe has failed, and people see through his games, and he knows it…..THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 9:46amDisgusting Progs!
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:35amHe will be back if Obama wins in November. Maybe he will walk in front of a bus.
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:46amMaybe it’s like rats leaving a sinking ship? Well, we can hope, can’t we
Report Post »drbage
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:53amYou have to wonder what time bombs he has left behind that will explode IF Obama gets re-elected. How appropriate that he returns to Hahvahd as the Felix Frankfurter Professor, the most progressive Supreme Court justice and co-founder of the ACLU.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 12:15pmthe DNComrades and Haaaaavaaad seem to have a pathway between thier nest…what’s harvards mascot..hammer and cycle????
Report Post »ACTFORCHRIST
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 12:52pmAmen! Wonder what piece of trash will take his place?
Report Post »702TruthSeeker
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 12:55pmPat, please, I need your “Happy days are here again” today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 1:13pmCass isn’t fooling anyone…he’s leaving to avoid the rush. When Obama loses there‘s going to be a box shortage from all the good socialist’s and communists packing up their office’s.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 1:21pmcass, you look like your sick. whats going on?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 1:45pmGood riddance commy AssClown…….
Report Post »jmgair
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 1:48pmHe has indeed done his damage over his time as one of Obama‘s Czar’s and many of his regulations have been buried deep in the thousands of pages of the bills and laws he has participated in writing while staying under the radar so nobody thinks he is involved. We will soon begin to discover his destructive and limiting ideas but only after he is gone and back to the Harvard progressive producing factory.
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 1:53pm“Cass Sunstein to Leave WH ‘Regulatory Czar’ Post & Return to Harvard Law School”
He’ll feel more at home with the other flakes, oddballs, kooks and misfits in academia.
That’s where he belongs.
Report Post »Non-Nobis-Domine-Sed-Nomini-Tuo-Da-Gloriam
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 4:14pmI was thinking the same thing Coral. He serves a very important purpose by going back to Harvard to continue his indoctrination. Perhaps the progressive movement realizes they have not quite reached a point of taking over and need to continue training future children to be good little lefties…. or they have other larger plans and despite it being a very good chance the American public is about to vote them all out, they are going to take over in a much more radical way. I know in my local community, I‘ve heard of some conservatives getting back in to out school systems to teach kids that socialism isn’t the right way. We have Charter schools around here growing and are privately owned. The kids are dropping out of the public school system to get in to these institutions for a better education. My oldest daughter is now in one and improved tremendously where she was slowly failing in the public school and getting a poor education. Be aware folks, this same Charter school she got into is already over run with extreme leftist teachers who are already trying to indoctrinate her in the same way that was happening in the public school.
Report Post »happygranny
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 4:19pmYou are absolutely right!
Report Post »mercenary4freedom
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 5:24pmthroat punch!
Report Post »YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 7:11pmJust pray the damage he created can be reversed.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:18pmGood riddance to bad rubbish…marxist POS!
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:26pmYeah, he’ll go back to harvard where he can be a full fledged marxist and not get any opposition for it. In fact, he’ll be praised and held in very high esteem for his profound wisdom and insight.
Report Post »Barf….
PATTY HENRY
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:49amYes Coralhristie, my thoughts exactly. He came; He saw but He failed to conquer and neither could his obnoxious wife…so back they run to their little Progressive cave AKA Harvard to retool and try it again.
If he’d been winning in his greatest Ambition (To change the world) he would not be quitting now. I think he sees the writing on the wall. That lying, scheming, communist, Muslim infiltrator in the WH
Report Post »is going to be Jimmy Carter redoux . Couldn’t happen to a better candidate. Years and generations from now, Barack Hussein Obama will be known as the One Term President who almost scuttled America. His great grand children will be ashamed to claim him. Sunstein leaving is significant.
Rick54
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:42amYou took the words right of of my mouth. It”s like all of the Presidents appointees are leaving, their job is done for now. Personally I don’t think Mr. Obama wants the second term. They stuck their toe’s in the water to tested it. “nope not ready yet”. They did what they were set out to do. I’m still worried about the power the UN is getting.
Report Post »bTeri
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:43amDont let the door hit you on the way out Cass. Gotta love the hit and run he did inundating businesses throughout the economy with expensive time consuming regulations and then leaving the scene of the crime just as the damage starts to surface (coal plant closures as one example). It does diminish my view of Harvard though that they have such an extreme, far , far, far left guy heading such an important dept at their B school. Now if we could just get rid of Holder……
Report Post »red_white_blue2
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 9:50amI used to think college professors were to be revered for the dedication to education. Now for me personally, and especially for any further education for my children, I look at them with a great deal of scrutiny, and will question anyone that I know will be instilling ideas in my children’s minds-especially as it relates to this country and government.
Report Post »bsnrn98
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:05amDitto about the door hitting you in the backside as you leave. obama is right behind you.
Report Post »iampraying4u
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 4:14pmWhat was he doing there in the first place.
Report Post »cal_105
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:43amI guess he can do more for the Obama “cause” by filling young skulls with mush about socialism and Marxism.
Report Post »US Citizen
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 9:57amHe saw the unemployment situation and figured he’d better take a job now rather than waiting until November!
Report Post »AIDANMAN
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:40amthey see the GRAVY train isn’t going to come to a stop.. but the track has been pulled up and the angry mob is waiting…
Report Post »cebva
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:39amIf OweBlameA is re-elected this dangerous Marxist will be back. He is leaving now so he will not to be an issue in the election. Harvard will provide him cover for a few months. Regulatory Czar indeed. Where is that in the Constitution? He’ll probably come back as attorney general after they move Stonewall Holder to the Supreme Court.
Be afraid – be very afraid.
Report Post »HumbleCitizen
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 9:39am@ cebva
Report Post »I agree. The problem is, Cas has been “outted”. We all know who this lover of lucifer is to the point he may no longer be effective at destroying this country. Whoever Obama replaces him with may be 10 times worse.
The difference this time? We know Obama and no longer give his policies the benefit of the doubt. Enough evidence has mounted to now understand Obama’s direction so we now know anyone Obama chooses will be for the specific reason of continued America “fundamental transformation” into a marxist, NWO state.
Gonzo
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:38amThe rats are leaving the sinking ship.
Report Post »got243kids
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:11amThat’s the sign post up ahead.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:21amI hope you’re right ….Gonzo!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:36amHe needs to leave America, not just the WH. Harvard needs to clean house and get rid of all those indoctrinating our youth with Marxist ideologies. It is a sad state for America when we have professors like him teaching the best and brightest. Enough! Moving Forward should mean cleaning house and restoring our Republic and once again being ashamed to be anti-American or Communist. They should be run out of America for good.
Report Post »CNCFan
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:46amI think Obama went to Harvard at one point, so saying they teach the “best and brightest” is stretching it a bit IMO.
Report Post »matt708
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:33amHarvard sucks along with its professors. hiring a commie
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:30amYes, he needs to get out there and corrupt more young minds.
Report Post »matt708
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:30amthe college should be chastised for hiring this commie
Report Post »bitterclinger
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:04amHarvard and every other Ivy-League university are composed entirely of Sunsteins.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:28am“behavioural economics”? Sounds awfully Orwellian to me. Is this where the idea to coerce people to move into inner cities from the suburbs comes from?
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:23amI wouldn‘t pay for my kid to be educated by any of these commie ’professors’. Our higher education system has been infiltrated by these anti-American propagandists and all proud Americans should not attend any of the progressive universities.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:33amGuess he’s done all the damage he can do. Dirty sob!
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:22amWow! Looks everyone is seeing the writing on the wall and are jumping ship to secure jobs elsewhere. This man has done more damage to our country than even Obama. He has been writing regulations for the common people to have to follow.
Report Post »Why would anyone want to hire this man unless they don’t like this country and want to “Fundamentally Transform” it.
May God Bless America and show us the way through this nightmare.
SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:22amgood riddance !!!
Report Post »Don’t let the door hit you in the on second thought let it.
kickagrandma
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:21amsunstein is just slipping out of the limelight into the darkness from which he slithered. Remember vanjones’ departure from the light into the darkness? The powers of darkness are returning to their source for an all-out assault. Do not be deceived. These cowardly soulless b******s are not running, they are gathering together away from the spotlight of TRUTH. Continue to ask GOD to uncover and to expose them. That prayer IS working!!!
Get ready, AMERICANS.
Report Post »PRAY ON.
STUDY.
LEARN.
This IS GOD’S battle.
HE WINS.
We stand in HIS NAME.
NHwinter
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:39amThat is exactly what I pray for everyday – that God will expose them for all to see the truth. I stand with you in prayer!
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:24amKicka….I agree…
Report Post »YAHSHUARULES
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 2:19pmI am also praying that everything in darkness is brought to the Light, everything hidden is revealed and that the God of Justice and Judgement bring his perfect Justice into every situation, those that are His have the blinders come off their eyes and come to the saving knowledge of Yahushuah – Jesus Christ and those that chose not to be His that are the seed of Satan receive the full recompense of their actions swiftly. That’s how I read the Blaze.
Report Post »Let Yah arise and Let His enemies be scattered. Put on the full Armour of Yah! We wrestle not against flesh and blood but spirits and principalities the demons that animate and drive these people.
ColoradoMaverick
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:19amGoing to Harvard law to indoctrinate more skulls full of mush. How come we never see a picture of this guy? I wonder if he ever sees his reflection in a mirror?
Report Post »bitterclinger
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:07amHis photo appears in the story above.
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:19amAh.. then the USSA must be b0ned if Cass SSunstine is leaving, get the roads ready for George Sorros he has won!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:46amGeorge Soros has funded UN Agenda 21 and continues to work toward a NWO. If only he COULD be run out of America and all countries. He is evil to the depths.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:19amHe has built the Death Star and can step down….now all Obama and the Democrats have to do is turn it on.
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:17amMaybe we the people should “arrest,try and convict ol’cass. Oh yeah,the punisment….i’m sure folks could come up with something befitting a traiter……
Report Post »mercenary4freedom
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:59amHang him high, along with all the other corrupt traitor infiltrators!
Report Post »liberalsarealiens
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:16amSoooo, the Rats are starting to jump ship? Let’s hope so because this guy is one of the worst. We simply MUST vote this virus ( Obama)) out of office.
Report Post »iampraying4u
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:50amThey use to hang traitors
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:15amI don‘t care for this guy’s politics at all. No big surprise. So I’m happy to see him go. I do think this is only to make the election easier for the White House. In the event of a win he would return. And in a second term he would really stink up the joint. IMO.
Silversmith
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:15amThe central planning control freak is moving on to Harvard law to screw that place up….um well too late.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:18amAt the least Cass Sunstein is soon to be gone from his czar position; the matter is, did it happen due to the regulations delay in implementation or are there other reasons – such as he fears being in on the hunt for criminals when the fall of Obama and his administration comes about?
The other matter is the important one as well – who, if anyone, will be assigned by Obama to replace him and how corrupt shall they be as well?
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:34amSnow, my thoughts exactly.
Report Post »slayone
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:12amis this a sign that all his cronies are starting to jump ship
Report Post »Wolverine100
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:18ami agree but why there must be up with something planned.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:20amThey are called rats.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:20amPossible, there has been the conjecture for some time that if Obama was not radical enough for their ideological extremism, many would lose faith and begin to turn on him. Watch for Sunstein though to implement some last minute steps to take effect after his departure, and then center himself around the next leftist extremist candidate – dear old communist Van Jones.
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:09amCass is getting out when the getting is good.
Report Post »Tifn8r
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:19amHe’s not actually leavingnorngiving up. He just wants to hide in his Harvard hole untilnhencan come back out without hurting Dimbos chances with people who are on the fence about this “Communism stuff”.
Report Post »It’s just a ploy to mislead people.
ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:07amgood riddance !!!
A great book on how the communists have taken over our institutions – churches, schools, businesses, government, Military and now our court system is
– The Naked Truth: The Naked Communist – Revisited
by James C. Bowers
http://www.amazon.com/The-Naked-Truth-Communist-Revisited/dp/093616316X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339153878&sr=8-1
He discusses how W. Cleon Skousen ( author of the 5000 Year Leap ) was an FBI agent for 16 years and was concerned about the implementation of what he felt were the top 45 stated goals of the communists at that time. You will be shocked how successfully their plans have been completed. A MUST READ book for any freedom loving American. Please pass on to others when done reading – SPREAD THE WORD
Also – A MUST SEE – We were warned – watch the youtube video of Yuri Bezmenov, from the 80′s with G. Edward Griffin ( Jekyll Island author ). A Soviet KGB defector, he tells how it was his job to infiltrate these institutions and place communist supporters in positions of leadership and power. He was successful in doing so. Mind boggling stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:16amAlso, add to your “To See” List: “AGENDA: Grinding America Down” by Curtis Bowers. Incredible video and puts legs on Dr. Bower’s research.
There is a couple in our area who have purchased multiple copies of both the video and the book and are GIVING them away because the messages are so clear.
Thanks to you OBSERVERONTHEHILL for pointing out the book!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 8:52amAgenda – Grinding America Down Video by Curtis Bowers
Report Post »AGENDA: Grinding America Down (Trailer) from Copybook Heading Productions LLC on Vimeo.
http://www.light4america.com/musicvideo.php?vid=2e3505259 – Cached