Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
04/12/07
To the victor belong the spoils’ has been the rule since Andrew Jackson. And every administration has displayed cases of abuse. But the Bush administration’s practices are more than the common and predictable problems with patronage. Bush has not simply filled jobs with favorites, oblivious to their underhanded dealings, as though he were a blithering latter-day version of Warren Harding. Bush has been determined to turn the entire federal government, every department and agency, into an instrument of a one-party state. From the GSA scandal to the purging of U.S. attorneys, Bush has engaged in a conscious, planned and systematic assault on the professional standards of career staff, either subordinating them or replacing them with ideologues...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/12/bush_destruction/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
by Sidney Blumenthal
04/12/07
To the victor belong the spoils’ has been the rule since Andrew Jackson. And every administration has displayed cases of abuse. But the Bush administration’s practices are more than the common and predictable problems with patronage. Bush has not simply filled jobs with favorites, oblivious to their underhanded dealings, as though he were a blithering latter-day version of Warren Harding. Bush has been determined to turn the entire federal government, every department and agency, into an instrument of a one-party state. From the GSA scandal to the purging of U.S. attorneys, Bush has engaged in a conscious, planned and systematic assault on the professional standards of career staff, either subordinating them or replacing them with ideologues...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/12/bush_destruction/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
rudkla - 12. Apr, 18:37
