Early in the Eisenhower Administration I was in the office of a career civil servant in DC, on Air Force busines. As part of the general conversation, he complained that the Administration was firing people well down the totem pole; people who really had no say on policy. However, after 20 years of New and Fair Deals, the liberals had taken over the "permanent government" at almost all levels. It isn't enough to fire a few top people. You have to root out the termites in the babsement as well.
Amen. Believe me, Hillary or ANY Democrat will get rid of EVERYONE!
“You have to root out the termites in the babsement as well.”
The bugs are back and stronger than ever it looks like.
You have it. As a result of his hiring policy, Bush had control over no agency except the Department of Defence, and even there control did not extned far enough into the bureaucracy of the Joint Chiefs. Bush had 6000 jobs to hand out and I doubt that he filled half of them with Republicans. Going back to the Civil War, Lincon did not finally get a handle on his war policy until late 1862, when virtually all the officer corps became Republican. War and politics can never be separated.
Recently I asked a well-known congressman why it is that all Democrats seem to skate while Republicans are subjected to all kinds of persecutions of scandals, real and imagined.
He told me because Bush's people are not in place in the Justice Dept.
I'm sick of it. They allow themselves to be constantly on defense and if they'd go on offense, perhaps this could come to an end.