Drug Czar

[wafflestomp]

I know I am a few days late, but just commenting on the English side of it - we have Czars for all kinds of things. We have a Drug Czar (the official role is the head of the White House Office of Drug Policy or something like that), a "border" czar, a "Green Jobs" czar, etc. It really depends on who you are talking about for whether you would call it a czar or not though. The government likes to make czars out of people for certain policies, like when President Obama was passing his stimulus act, there was a stimulus czar. Or during Health Care reform, we had a health care czar. The DNI (Director of National Intelligence) could be called a "czar" but no one really calls it that. The real common ones are drug czar, green jobs czar, science czar (head of White House science office), less commonly the border czar, who is actually (I believe) an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security.