All the President’s Czars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2c3fxAs7Tk
The word “czar” is derived from the word “ceasar,” and it implies empirical power. Is the executive appointment of “czars” an abuse of the power of the president? These people are given a lot of power of oversight, and are held to no accountability. Dan Mitchell has a lot of good points in this interview, including that these people may just be a big and expensive PR stunt by the administration. Whatever they are in terms of action, it disturbs me that current and past presidents use their authority to create these placeholder positions positions in an attempt to bypass the the checks and balances between government branches.