[willgetsome]

The President needs to clean house....these last few months of leaks and bogus reports show that there are still many Clintonites and other Left-wingers running things at the State Department, the EPA, the Pentagon, etc.

[3D-JOY]

A GIANT DITTO to that!!

[Poohbah]

Small problem: most of those folks are civil service and are legally protected from politically-motivated reprisal. In practice, this means firing ONE misbehaving employee is almost impossible; a wholesale brooming is never gonna happen without Congressional assent, and Bush won't get it unless he can get a cloture-proof majority in the Senate.

[My2Cents]

I remember a book from my college days about presidential authority. The author made the comment that whenever a President makes a decision or asks a department for something, the decision makes it to about the third level of bureaucracy, and then it usually hits a career bureaucrat and gets stymied there. This kind of struggle between a President and the careerists in every department is a constant one, and effects every President.