The President named an Ebola czar this week and you and I can be grateful and he didn't name one of us to do this ---- to be in charge of a disease ---- what a thing to have on your resume, radio host, 1974-2014, Ebola czar 2014-2015 ---- and who knows what it is about Russian dictatorship that the American people find comforting at a time of panic. I guess they feel that democracy just isn't working out right now and it's time to bring in the guy with the robes and the crown and the golden scepter (TR RUSSIAN CZARISM) to order people around and knock heads together. So back in the day we had a War on Terror czar and a War on Drugs czar, and President Bush had a Katrina Recovery czar and a homelessness czar, and a bird flu czar. Remember avian influenza. Remember Y2K and the panic that the entire electrical grid would go out all over the country. The sky has fallen many times before and it turned out to be snow, but the people demand a czar and so they shall have a czar. People my age: do you recall the names of any czars of the past? I do not. When you look at the history of infectious disease, authoritarian societies don't have such a good record of fighting them as America does. There are people actually out campaigning for Congress on the issue of Ebola, as if this were a political problem, not a matter of science and medicine, and many of them have voted to cut government spending on science and medicine. This is like attacking the fire department for not arriving immediately at the fire that you set in your own home. I think that what we need is a czar of Congress, to make it actually accomplish something ---- (TR: EXCUSE ME. THIS IS JOHN BOEHNER. SPEAKER BOEHNER. I AM THE CZAR OF CONGRESS. WANT TO HEAR ME SPEAK. ---- TR BOEHNER SPEAKING CAREFUL RUSSIAN) -----