DHS overflowing with political appointees.
By on Jun 5th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
DHS overflowing with political appointees.
Job openings at the Department of Homeland Security “have increasingly been filled by ‘GOP fundraisers or apparatchiks…sent to pad their resumes or cool their heels,” a new National Journal report finds. According to a “2006 survey of more than 10,000 DHS employees, two-thirds would not agree with the statement that ‘arbitrary action, personal favoritism and coercion for partisan political purposes are not tolerated’ at the department.”
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Clinton did it!!
June 5th, 2007 at 4:49 pmHave a quick look at the number of “Special Assistants to the Deputy Assistant” that are there and even get a clearer picture.
Political appointees exist only to provide confidential policymaking advice or counsel. That definition has been routinely stretched and has been roundly abused in all hires during this Admin.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:50 pmI wonder how safe the 28% feel, knowing this?
June 5th, 2007 at 4:53 pmDepartment of Homeboy Suck-ups
June 5th, 2007 at 4:55 pmwhat was that norquist line? something about getting the government
“down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”
huh… how’s that working, grover?
June 5th, 2007 at 5:00 pm…
Great. So when we really have an emergency for real, the whole goddamn group of chickenhawk bastards will run amok going Bok! BOK BOK BOK! With their heads up their collective chickenbutts.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:01 pmInteresting choice of words…”cool their heels”?! I suppose that means that DHS is intentionally ineffective, or maybe a better way of putting it would be…a GODDAM RUSE!!
June 5th, 2007 at 5:19 pmThat’s the whole purpose of DHS. That and $$$.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:22 pmOh man…
I seriously think that there are too many things for the oversight arm of the government to juggle!
June 5th, 2007 at 5:27 pmDepartment of Hellacious Spending
June 5th, 2007 at 5:34 pmDid they just take the entire graduating classes of Liberty and Oral Copulation Roberts Unitaryversity?
June 5th, 2007 at 5:36 pmTerrorists don’t need to carry out another attack like 9/11. The GOP is doing more than any rogue terror group could even dream of to destroy the US.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:46 pmso this is a surprise to who, and in what way?
June 5th, 2007 at 6:12 pmI think that at the rate they’re going, “Republican” is going to be added to that FCC list of things you can’t say during prime time.
My brother-in-law is a computer specialist working for DHS and he’s afraid of receiving emails from me because I post anti Repub and anti Bush crap on the Internet.
June 5th, 2007 at 6:35 pmIncredible, isn’t it? How far paranoia has spread in this country because of the way Bush has politicized everything?
Did anyone with an “average Joe” type job ever fear for their job becasue they were anti Clinton?
“Great. So when we really have an emergency for real, the whole goddamn group of chickenhawk bastards will run amok going Bok! BOK BOK BOK! With their heads up their collective chickenbutts.
Comment by RUCerious — June 5, 2007 @ 5:01 pm”
Yes, RUCerious. It was called “Katrina.”
Does anyone remember what Dubya said about Congressional Democrats during the debate over the DHS bill, when they wanted to include employment protections and make DHS employees civil servants?
June 5th, 2007 at 6:56 pmNo Sh!t. if you can’t be a political partisan in the Department of Homeland Security, where can you be????
June 5th, 2007 at 10:47 pmI mean, isn’t this the 21st Century equivalent of Hitler’s SS??
June 5th, 2007 at 10:47 pm