Whatever happened to the "Jobs Czar"?

[Cocoa]

I thought it was an official thing, an assistant directly under the Commerce Secretary or something.

But I never heard of it after that. I knew it was phony, but did they just completely drop it? Was it ridiculed too much?

[ameriphile]

1. He was laid off, and his job went overseas.

n/t

[Cocoa]

4. lol

a lot of the reaction at the time was "Bush creates one new job." :-)

[Nay]

10. lol, beat me to it.

[Jacobin]

2. Guess he's unemployed>

:shrug:

[mhr]

3. He's Busy Coordinating the Job-Loss Recovery

eom

[karlschneider]

5. Being handled by a fellow in New Delhi.

:eyes:

[Cocoa]

6. then he's doing a good job

IT is booming over there.

[Ignis]

7. Well, comrade...

One of the Reagan Era fossils that pulls the strings in the Shrub administration saw that there was a 'Czar' on the payroll and assumed he was a Commie Ruski, so they shipped him off to Siberia!

What? What? It could happen...

[fizzana]

8. He's still trying to figure out his job description.

n/t

[soupkitchen]

9. This is a very funny thread

Take this Job Czar and shove it