[Lancey Howard]

The entire Kurtz article was posted three times so far as ongoing threads, and three times it's been deleted by the management for unspecified reasons. I don't know what's at work in that regard, but it's very annoying, and kind of suspicious

Yes, it is indeed "suspicious" and "annoying". And it must be really annoying to the decent half of America who thought they had elected a President who would finally free them from the scumbag Democrats who were running the show at HHS, only to find that these same sickening scumbag Democrats are still there, and still (apparently) running the show.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It is my understanding that the President has done everything in his reasonable Copnstitutional power to remove these people, but since they can only be reassigned by their subcabinet official superiors, and since Daschle won't let their replacements be confirmed, the Clinton assignees still are in office.