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"My understanding is it's all a mix"

At the risk of trying too hard to relate govt workers to corporate types....it sound like what I used to call PMS...that stood for "pre-merge syndrome" ...."post-merge syndrome" and in the worst possible cases "permanent-merge syndrome"

The goal always was to not lose business or good people in a merge....say that real fast and it sounds easy...but like trying to figure out who is Worth keeping in the govt. after a change of administrations, I bet it's a mess and a half!

I agree with you. I remember reading about the staff reductions forced on the Democrats in 1995 after the Republicans became the majority. Amid all that chaos, the GOP messed up by allowing larger staffs in DC for Democrats than Republicans had before the change. I also believe many displaced Democrats moved over to the special interest groups there so they could continue to influence policy.