No, no at all. Life-time positions in the Federal Government are the modern equivalent of sinecures in the Middle Ages. And that is not as it should be. The President has a term limit of eight years, and by golly, no one in FedGov should hold a position for life in any agency, except those in the lowest tier of jobs -- brown collar. Higher positions should be limited, seven years for most and fourteen by special merit.
The State Department would be a good department to term limit.
Look how p*ssed they got when Bush fired 8 US attorneys. WHICH HE HAD EVERY RIGHT TO DO WITHOUT ANSWERING TO ANYONE!
The answer is term limits. No matter how good the clowns are in the minds of their constituents, both Byrd and Kennedy have long overstayed their usefulness in DC......
That position of civil servant used to be for life. Pay was not great, but the job was nearly certain. Then the politicians jumped in and next thing you know civil servants were on the street and sycophants were in the office. So the civil servants organized and the pay went up at the same time firing got real hard for the politicians and they could mostly clean out the management levels only. That’s what happens when you get corruption in the system.