Via Instapundit comes word that the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge the federal government of Republican civil servants all in the name of purify the federal bureaucracy.
You can read the OPM memo here. http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalId=2588
It is a typical Washington process that many political appointees are able to take jobs within the civil service once their political appointment expires — usually at the conclusion of one administration. What often happens as well is Congressional staffers, before an election or shortly thereafter, will move over to the Executive Branch placed into the civil service, in effect, by appointment.
So, for example, when George Bush became President in 2001, a number of Clinton political appointees became civil service employees. As a result, they became subject to civil service hiring and firing rules, which meant they could no longer be replaced simply for having been a Democratic appointee.
Barack Obama is changing that. He intends to purge all Republicans from the federal bureaucracy retroactive to five years ago.
Under his new rules, made retroactive for five years, the Office of Personnel Management will examine civil service employees who got their start as political appointees in the Bush administration and terminate those employees. The order is retroactive to 2004, that moment when a number of Republican congressional staffers and others sought to embed into the second Bush administration right after the election.
According to John Berry, the Director of OPM:
Beginning January 1, 2010, agencies must seek prior approval from OPM before they can appoint a current or recent political appointee to a competitive or non-political excepted service position at any level under the provisions of title 5, United States Code. OPM will review these proposed appointments to ensure they comply with merit system principles and applicable civil service laws. I have delegated decisionmaking authority over these matters to career Senior Executives at OPM to avoid any hint of political influence.
The memorandum goes on to apply this change to civil servants who were political appointees in the last five years, in effect freezing these employees out of other positions, denying them promotions, and forcing them out of their jobs.
No one is allowed to stand in the way of Barack Obama’s agenda, including his own bureaucracy. This is what happens in third world kleptocracies and totalitarian regimes.
This is scary stuff.
Just for perspective: remember the Democrats threatened to throw Bush administration people in jail for firing United States Attorneys who happened to be Democrats. In that case, it was clear as crystal that U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President and he can fire them whenever he wants. In this case, these people are now civil service employees who do not serve at the pleasure of the President and cannot be fired just because they are Republicans. in fact, the law is very clear on that point.
By force....they will have to be removed....one by one.
Just wait until we take everything back in 2012. We will not be charitable like we used to be.
That’s a surprise. I doubt if 0’s intent is to stop with government positions.
ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, A MEMBER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
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It’s been said that you should never start a war with someone who looks just like you. This may be one of “The Magic Negro’s” better ideas. Getting rid of those nasty R’s might just do the trick.
We’re in an either or proposition now regarding the idiot Obama. Either he will succeed and destroy the United States, or the Democrat Party will save itself by destroying his agenda to escape their own destruction.
That he presses onward with agenda items like this will soon reach a tipping point among a majority of even Democrat Voters at some point. The jury is still out at the moment.
Let ‘em. What sane, patriotic American would want to work for that SCUMBAG?
When does the civil service have to take a personal oath to ZerO?
First they fire them, then they jail them when they can't afford to pay for the state sponsored health care scam.
I’m a bit puzzled as to how they can make this change retroactive 5 years. Seems to be open to lawsuits for being retroactive. But then,again, this whole administration does nothing BUT go backwards.
Time is running out.
More Chicago politics. Will “The One problem” have to be solved “The Chicago Way”?
The Third Reich would have been proud of the Obama Administration.
Sounds like something that perhaps Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin OR Rush Limbaugh can draw into the spotlight for many millions to see and send them into retreat and to reverse this ridiculous new assault on We The People.
Communism. Join the Communist Party if you want to advance in life. Many many people did not.
Looks to me like this rope is lite at both ends.
This as the media is purging any conservative voices, namely Lou Dobbs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2384717/posts?page=18#18
Wow. Being purged is a lousy feeling, isn’t it???
Mark my words....the democrats are going to drive someone to do Ft. Hood in DC if this crap keeps up.....and they won’t be hurting Innocent people like at Ft. Hood.....
bet you it’s a liberal dem.....