Posted on 01/19/2017 8:23:35 PM PST by RightGeek
My first face-to-face encounter with the federal bureaucracy came on January 22, 2001.
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This was my first introduction to the challenges of the federal bureaucracy. Trying to get anything done requires knowing the pulse points and the people—and then crossing your fingers that they can or will comply. Of course, as a conservative from the think tank world, I had heard tales of the liberal bias of career officials. The skepticism about the ideological motivations of career officials was a subset of a larger conservative skepticism about the administrative state. Steven Hayward sums up this attitude nicely in his new book Patriotism Is Not Enough: “That bureaucratic government is the partisan instrument of the Democratic Party is the most obvious, yet least remarked upon, trait of our time.”
Transition briefers had warned us of the practice of “burrowing in.” This term refers to the maneuver by political officials at the end of an administration to shift their jobs into the career civil service, thereby securing lifetime tenure and allowing them to advance their ideological agendas or simply impede needed reforms. Early on, we saw a shameless attempt at burrowing in at the Department of Labor in the person of the woman who had been Labor Secretary Alexis Herman’s chief of staff. She tried to convince us that she was sympathetic to the incoming administration. Knowing that I had worked for Missouri Senator John Ashcroft, she told me that they worshipped at the same church. I was unconvinced, as was the savvy Labor secretary for whom I worked, Elaine Chao, now Donald Trump’s nominee as secretary of transportation. Later, but not that much later, we saw that the attempted burrower had gone on to become chief of staff at the Democratic National Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
A few bureaucrats meeting the business end of a wood chipper might help the others find enlightenment.
I’m just saying . . .
Good point.
Excellent strategy.
No. The protesters and their supporters should submit to the will of the people. It is what our republic demands.
Or we can go to the mattresses and fight a civil war.
In this the left will lose.
Hey.
Legislative.
Executive.
Judicial.
Burrower. Sounds like a tick.
...the fears that some on our side have about our guy being undercut ALL HAPPENED under Bush Jr., and to a lesser extent both Bush Sr. and Reagan.
Trump simply doesn’t put up with that crap. Sure, he’ll be tested - but the results will be SO UGLY for those people, that all internal opposition will fizzle out, almost immediately.
Trump will be JUST FINE.
Do you think it would work that way? That seems almost too easy, but...why not?
Oh, I sure hope you know what you’re talking about.
Reading that excerpt was boring enough
So would firing everyone that has accessed porn on their work computer.
I used to be a Federal employee.
The union would work to make it happen this way. It wouldn’t merely be what a department head might want.
Trump is not *OF* the bureaucratic system: therefore he can prune and uproot at will. We The People gave him his power.
Yeah, go back to 20 years, the rest will soon retire anyway. Then just terminate all the positions.
The article mentions government employees threatening to quit; I don’t believe any intend to do that. Living here in NJ, which is filled with government workers at all levels from municipal on up through county, state, and federal (a big driver of our very high property taxes), I have only know ONE government worker who left his job voluntarily. He was a white guy who worked for the postal service; I believe he just couldn’t cope with the affirmative action hires given employment for life to maintain the illusion of assimilation. Every other one I’ve known will work until they can collect retirement with benefits unimaginable for most of their employers (the taxpayers) - often at least a decade earlier than most taxpayers as well.
Most government workers have little to no value outside of an organization without owners/shareholders.
The MEDIA forgets...
WE THE PEOPLE elected a President who isn’t afraid to say, “YOU’RE FIRED!”
Or not,paid their taxes, or ised their govt credit card for personal items,....
Yep, you can only retreat and bump to a position previously held.
Yes. And it will be crushed.
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