Comments on: Bush Admin’s ‘Special Gift’ For Obama

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:38:33 +0000

DLS -

There are times you are a complete idiot, like now.

Of course they cannot do that. That is the exact point of the civil service laws. They control pay, reporting structure, etc. In fact, this is using the very laws pushed into place in the 60's and 70's by Liberal Democrats against them. Not that I agree with them, but as I said, this is a centuries old tradition, nothing new.

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:42:43 +0000

Oh, come on, already. If the Demmies can shriek about buying home-loan borrowers' votes, and they want to pay off the UAW and keep the dimwit Detroit dinosaurs on life support for a few weeks more, they can hire replacements for these people, make the Bush appointees' subordinates report to the new people, have the Bush appointees report to nobody, relocate them to converted broom closets, and last but foremost --

*** MINIMUM WAGE ***

Enough said, right?

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:54:09 +0000

Ah, the gift that keeps on giving……………………….

Considering the current state of the country and Bush's abysmal approval ratings, I think this is the kind of “experience” that the Obama administration needs to avoid at all costs!
Will that be the Bush legacy to haunt for the next 30-40 years????

By: RememberNovember

RememberNovember — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:29 +0000

There's always ambassadorships to warm tropical climates. I guess Dana Perino has already burrowed her way into Fox or somesuch plum talking head gig.

By: jeff_pickens

jeff_pickens — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:47:14 +0000

I'll add it AustinRoth: Rove!

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:24:34 +0000

This is another of those 'let's try to make Bush lookk bad for doing what Presidents have done since almost the beginning of the country'. Because when other Presidents did it, well, that was OK.

But GWFB? NFW!

BTW - you forgot the obligatory Rove reference.

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:38:23 +0000

One of the things that President-Elect Obama was promising to civil servants is a repel of the new rules that allow the government to reassign people without their permission. The Bush Administration wanted to rearrange the DoD after 9/11 but the civil service rules did not allow it. It is one of the reasons that the DoD was gone so heavily into contracting out work. It allows more flexibility and allows them to hire retired military/civil servants into high paying jobs.

It idea that an Obama Administrationis going to get tough on any civil servant is laughable.