[The Vast Right Wing]

All Bush is asking for is the civil service exemptions that the CIA, NSA, and FBI employees submit to.

[pattycake]

The ability to fire an employee on the spot ... Those are powers that no president has had

He needs the power to move people around, government workers know they can't be fired and they are dumb as posts, The President needs flexibility in this area, look at the new govt screeners at the airport, still dumb as posts and now know they too cannot be fired. What an incentive to do a better job --- NOT.

[plain talk]

Then seems he should state this & make a reasoned case to the American people instead of this bland stuff about protecting the homeland.

[ThePythonicCow]

All Bush is asking for is the civil service exemptions that the CIA, NSA, and FBI employees submit to.

In todays speech at Mt Rushmore, Bush spoke to this:

I am deeply concerned about this provision of the Senate bill. It strips me of authority. Unlike previous -- if this bill were to go through, this bill would take away the authority that every bill since Jimmy Carter has had, which is to exempt agencies from collective bargaining requirements, if I were to determine that our national security demands it. It's important during times of war that we be flexible to meet our needs.

Yup - Daschle lied. yawn ...

[olliemb]

Who then fires the federal employees if not the boss? Does congress decide whom to fire? Why are the democrats so adamant about not firing the federal employees--what purpose is there to have an incompetent person working who should be fired?