Is the Proliferation of Czars Usurping The Power of the Legislative Branch?

The term czar is not a new one but there has been a proliferation of them in the previous and current administrations.  The term is used to describe certain individuals in the executive branch who have been deemed to be experts in a particular area and appear to be steering national policy in those areas.  Despite being the butt of a lot of jokes, the title does come with an implication of power and a perceived level of authority.  I say perceived only because not all of them have been granted the authority to set policy.

It  is somewhat confusing because those who have been granted the the title of czar are a mixture of positions created by Congress and confirmed by the Senate and those that were not not.  There is no official list so no one really knows just how many there are (seems to be a new one every couple of months).  Another source of confusion is that there is no clearly defined role, responsibility or line of authority for those positions not afforded by the legislative branch.

The establishment of czars and the centralization of policy set forth by these experts in the executive branch raises the question of whether this policy setting should really be the responsibility of the legislative branch.   Has America created a government so large and so complex that it cannot be properly legislated by our elected officials?  The implications of this statement are not to be take lightly.  If policy is set by unelected officials, isolated from public scrutiny and control then the entire balance of governmental power is upset.
President Obama's attempt to centralize control over the huge bureaucracy that is now our government is not new, nor has it only been done by Democratic presidents.  It is, however,  a symptom of a much more serious issue--the fact that Congress has transferred a great deal of its authority to bureaucratic agencies.
 
Because congress has failed to appoint anyone to be in charge of the whole structure it has evolved such that it is in serious tension with the way our Constitution writers envisioned it should be in that the line between executive privilege and legislative responsibility is now blurred.  Throwing in the unappointed policy setting czars only distorts these lines further.

The solution seems obvious (at least to my simple mind);  restore our government back to the way it was originally designed – LIMITED – and restore the authority back to where it belong - WITH THE STATES.