First it was a "war czar" though nobody was interested in being the fall guy for the failures of the President and now it's a food czar. What an amazing inability to accept any and all responsibility. Sounds like Return of the Wimp Factor, Bush II.
The Bush administration appointed a new "food safety czar" yesterday and directed him to develop a plan for addressing shortcomings exposed by recent scares in the human food supply.What is a czar going to do? Tell us that we need to get back to the original mission of the FDA and scrap years of GOP congressional damage? Uh, I think that much is obvious, so this is another diversion on the taxpayers dollar.
Dr. David W.K. Acheson, a former University of Maryland medical school professor who had been chief medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration's food safety center, immediately stepped into the job.
The creation of the new position underscored the extent of public concern about the country's food safety system over a dangerous chemical found in pet food entering the human food supply, in addition to recent outbreaks of bacterial contamination in bagged spinach, Taco Bell lettuce and Peter Pan peanut butter. But Democrats said fears have intensified to a degree that a new appointment alone won't quell.
