Democrats call terror bill 'ruse' to fire civil workers

Washington Times ^ | 6/20/02 | Dave Boyer

[kattracks]

Congressional Democrats and their labor allies yesterday threatened to kill a key component of President Bush's homeland security plan

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[america-rules]

No, AlBushGore wouldn't do this :)

[omegatoo]

If the Democrats don't like this (especially Uncle Teddy) it MUST be good ;-)
O2

[Hank Rearden]

The permanent-parasite class.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ha, when the proposal first broke and all the B_ & Moan crowd here was whining about how expansionistic it was and how the world was ending, I speculated that Bush might be actually making a brilliant move to stealthily institute some civil service reforms.

Just like with Social Security reform, given time Bush is revealed to have a pragmatic strategy to ACTUALLY get some conservative reforms through a hostile political Senate and achieve what was thought to be politically impossible. Some conservatives know how to realistically assess their political constraints and find a way to get results, and some just carp at how utopia was not instilled yesterday.

When the final count is tallied in 2009, Bush will be remembered as a groundbreaking advancer of conservatism.

[Sandy]

Who ever came up with the idea that government workers should have any kind of job protections? Freakin parasites should try getting real jobs.

[nopardons]

How very perceptive and correct you are. : - )

[Free the USA]

bttt

[Poohbah]

Who ever came up with the idea that government workers should have any kind of job protections?

After President Garfield got capped by a disgruntled job-seeker, it seemed like a good idea.

There needs to be a balance between not allowing people to get fired to make room for cronies (White House Travel Office), but that allows for swiftly canning those who can't do the job.