'A Sense of Dread' for Civil Servants Shaken by Trump Transition

NY Times ^ | February 11, 2017 | Michael D. Shear and Eric Lichtblau

[stevio]

It’s all good.

[Albion Wilde]

“What do you do,” asked Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia, if you work at a place where the leader “avowedly renounces the work of that agency?”...
The intensity of feeling was already raw in late December, when members of the Digital Service gathered for drinks... to say goodbye to Mikey Dickerson, their boss and the Google engineer first hired to rescue HealthCare.gov, the government’s Affordable Care Act website.

The jokes just write themselves!

[Albion Wilde]

Folks, this is vintage loony leftism:

At the Defense Department, where uniformed men and women work with civilians, several rank-and-file employees expressed outrage that Mr. Trump would announce the travel ban at the Pentagon, a building filled with people from different faiths and countries. That same day, the Defense Department posted a message on Twitter about a former refugee who became a Marine. “From refugee to #Marine. @USMC Cpl Ali J. Mohammed takes his fight to the doorstep of those who cast his family out,” it read.