That is not how the civil service works. The President appoints (and removes) the US Attorneys. He does not appoint the entire civil service, nor does he appoint all of the assistant US attorneys. People like Brenda Morris and William Welch are civil servants, not appointees. Bush couldn’t just fire them. But a skillful Attorney General can manage the department in a way so as to put people like that in positions where they can do little or no harm. That is what Holder has done with the ones that aren’t singing the Obama tune. Plame and Wilson are civil servants, as well. Not easily removed, but very easily moved and sidelined. Bush is not a vicious, Chicago-style politician and so left many people in place where they could damage him.
Oh, I know that, we had a friend at Justice, and the Dems in the
office made life miserable, hard, spied on him. They have
ways of clearing people out, and over fifty years of
hiring like-minded people. And I was trying to make same point
about what Dems do and Repubs do. Next time, Repubs need
to make better effort to sideline the Dems.
This is why the next Republican President needs to do an 80-100% RIF (Reduction In Force) of civil servants across ALL Federal agencies.
This is ABSOLUTEY REQUIRED to put the Federal budget back in the black as well as to root out the leftists and corrupt officials put in place by democrat administrations.
To give you an example that I have personal knowledge of: At one federal agency where I was a contractor, ALL of the procurement personnel (civil servants and Senior Executive Service) and local Small Business Administration personnnel (civil servants and SES) were DEMOCRATS. Only democrat contractors got contracts at that federal agency. The fed employees and SBA made millionaires out of the contractors who dutifully kicked back millions in donations and “volunteer” employees to the democrat party and politicians.
Bush did not put a stop to this. The same democrat civil servants kept handing out lucrative contracts to the same millionaire contractors.
This is the kind of DEEPLY ENTRENCHED CORRUPTION that President Palin needs to root out and prosecute.
Any critical function of the federal government can be procured more cheaply from the private sector. Each agency needs a small core of UNBIASED, UNCORRUPTIBLE procurement officials to handle contracting.
For my next job, I want to be the Inspector General for a large agency.