Wish he could, it is a common trick of the Dems to boro in at the end of the second term. That is they convert from a appointed job to Civil Service, and therefore cannot be fired. I believe what happened to Linda Tripp was rather than firing her and making more headlines they let her appointment run out. Most of the Repubs on the otherhand realize they would go brain dead in the Fed Govt so they leave, and besides they usually are acommplished in some profession and not there to promote some narrow ajenda.
...That is they convert from a appointed job to Civil Service, and therefore cannot be fired....
Find who these people are, and give them direct, unequivocal, orders and see if they follow them through. And when they don't, Rumsfeld has the ammo to fire. Moreover, I would terminate all those silly leftist think tanks from the payroll starting with this moron Richard Sokolsky.
You nailed it.