Republicans have long railed against the cabinet of Obama's czars like Van Jones, former head of "green jobs," who've led task forces without needing Senate confirmation.

Now with control of the House, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate Obama’s 39 czars. The Hill reported:

A group of House Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday to rein in the various “czars” in the Obama administration.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and 28 other House Republicans introduced legislation to do away with the informal, paid advisers President Obama has employed over the past two years.

The legislation, which was introduced in the last Congress but was not allowed to advance under Democratic control, would do away with the 39 czars Obama has employed during his administration.

The bill defines a czar as “a head of any task force, council, policy office within the Executive Office of the President, or similar office established by or at the direction of the President” who is appointed to a position that would otherwise require Senate confirmation.

On the eve of the 112th session of Congress, Diane Sawyer sat down with ten freshman Republican lawmakers as they prepared to assume the reigns of power. The Tea Party movement proved to be a driving force during the 2010 election cycle -- propelling many freshmen members to victory. With the campaign in the rearview mirror, Sawyer talked to freshmen Representatives and Senators about their vision for the country and how they plan to follow through on the promises that brought them to Washington.

The economic problems facing California are severe and complex. There is no magic elixir to alleviate all the problems -- that being said, California’s budget crisis does seem to have one silver lining: efforts to reform state government are finally gaining traction with voters and lawmakers.

As the economic downturn grinds on, now is the time for lawmakers to seriously consider viable alternatives which have a proven track record of reducing government spending and saving taxpayer dollars.

One of those alternatives is public-private partnerships, a topic discussed in the latest briefing report from California's Senate Republican Caucus:

Facing a lingering economic downturn and increasing debt, California's 5,000 units of local government find themselves in a difficult two front battle. On one hand, municipal leaders are confronting declining property and sales tax revenues coupled with burgeoning costs. At the same time, citizens are demanding new services as well as the expansion of existing ones. All the while, federal and state governments continue to pass more responsibility for public services down the line to escape the onus of tax or fee increases.

In light of these new economic and political realities, there is growing pressure upon local governments both from within and from outside to find alternative service delivery models that provide greater efficiency and improved outcomes for tax dollars spent.

Read the full report HERE.

San Francisco's assault on individual liberties and freedom of choice continues onward at a break-neck pace. As previously noted, the City has officially taken out sugary drinks and replaced them with soy milk, rice milk, and certain diet sodas in vending machines on city property.

In November San Francisco lawmakers voted to override Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto on a measure to ban fast-food restaurants from including toys with children's meals that do not meet nutritional guidelines.

The ordinance prohibits toy giveaways in fast-food children's meals that have more than 640 milligrams of sodium, 600 calories or 35 percent of their calories from fat.

The law also limits saturated fats and trans fats and requires fruits or vegetables to be served with each meal that includes a toy. Or as appropriately stated by the Daily Show... they shall now be known as "Crappy Meals"....

"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business," President Calvin Coolidge told journalists in March 1929.

If Coolidge suddenly sprang to life today in California, he would look around and drop dead.

California lawmakers are minding their own business . . . and everyone else's.

While a recent Rasmussen poll showed that a plurality of Americans see an ever growing government as a threat to individual rights and personal choice rather than a protector of those rights, in California the era of unlimited government continues slogging ahead.