So, you think your Civil Service job is secure?

Obama Administration Intends to Purge Republicans From the Civil Service

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/11/12/obama-administration-intends-to-purge-republicans-from-the-civil-service/

Remember how the Democrats reacted when the Bush Administration started replacing U.S. Attorneys? At least they were actually political appointees employed at the will and whim of the President.
Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)

Thursday, November 12th at 11:42AM EST

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“This is what happens in third world kleptocracies and totalitarian regimes.”Via Instapundit comes word that the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge the federal government of Republican civil servants all in the name of purify the federal bureaucracy.

You can read the OPM memo here.

It is a typical Washington process that many political appointees are able to take jobs within the civil service once their political appointment expires — usually at the conclusion of one administration. What often happens as well is Congressional staffers, before an election or shortly thereafter, will move over to the Executive Branch placed into the civil service, in effect, by appointment.

So, for example, when George Bush became President in 2001, a number of Clinton political appointees became civil service employees. As a result, they became subject to civil service hiring and firing rules, which meant they could no longer be replaced simply for having been a Democratic appointee.

Barack Obama is changing that. He intends to purge all Republicans from the federal bureaucracy retroactive to five years ago.

Under his new rules, made retroactive for five years, the Office of Personnel Management will examine civil service employees who got their start as political appointees in the Bush administration and terminate those employees. The order is retroactive to 2004, that moment when a number of Republican congressional staffers and others sought to embed into the second Bush administration right after the election.

According to John Berry, the Director of OPM:

Beginning January 1, 2010, agencies must seek prior approval from OPM before they can appoint a current or recent political appointee to a competitive or non-political excepted service position at any level under the provisions of title 5, United States Code. OPM will review these proposed appointments to ensure they comply with merit system principles and applicable civil service laws. I have delegated decisionmaking authority over these matters to career Senior Executives at OPM to avoid any hint of political influence.

The memorandum goes on to apply this change to civil servants who were political appointees in the last five years, in effect freezing these employees out of other positions, denying them promotions, and forcing them out of their jobs.

No one is allowed to stand in the way of Barack Obama’s agenda, including his own bureaucracy. This is what happens in third world kleptocracies and totalitarian regimes.

This is scary stuff.

Just for perspective: remember the Democrats threatened to throw Bush administration people in jail for firing United States Attorneys who happened to be Democrats. In that case, it was clear as crystal that U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President and he can fire them whenever he wants. In this case, these people are now civil service employees who do not serve at the pleasure of the President and cannot be fired just because they are Republicans. in fact, the law is very clear on that point.

if that was true tha whay did gen. petraus get promoted an why is robert gates still secrary of defence and muller is still head of the FBI so on.

A couple reasons.
Those are high profile jobs.
They aren't your everyday civil service flunkies.
They were probably smart enough to have something on someone to insure their jobs.

Hussein Obama with a Muslim father became a US president . Some folks will never get over this . Some Islam is the White House....
...... .

Off-topic, but, will address you.

Actually, there are two or three more in DC politics.

But, on the bright side. We are learning from Canada, how strong the Muslin influence is and how canadians are losing the rest of their rights to their whims.

Ex.; There's a lot of censorship. POF withdrew its Politics and current events because one Muslim woman complained enough and word got out, canadians weren't real happy about Sharia Law. Every time there was a subject related to muslims and she posted she was offended, the topic was pulled.

Just because CNN or MSNBC didn't report on this plan to weed out the infidels from Civil Service, doesn't make it any less true. Most importamnt topics never leave the local areas.

Main Entry: 1purge
Pronunciation: \'p?rj\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): purged; purg·ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French purger, from Latin purigare, purgare to purify, purge, from purus pure + -igare (akin to agere to drive, do) — more at act
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1 a : to clear of guilt b : to free from moral or ceremonial defilement
2 a : to cause evacuation from (as the bowels) b (1) : to make free of something unwanted (2) : to free (as a boiler) of sediment or relieve (as a steam pipe) of trapped air by bleeding c (1) : to rid (as a nation or party) by a purge (2) : to get rid of

That term can mean, firing, letting go for whatever reason, making the workplace so miserable for the person, they feel they have to resign; etc.


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Obama's father was MUSLIM .
So the White House has embraced the roots of Obama's father .
Oops he was both African, Kenyan and Muslim .
Obama became a president while his racist opponents are writing in forums about him .
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let's not forget that a kenyan secret muslim immigrant that secretly has poker games with terrorists and hates America beat out a Patriotic christian war hero 44-1..guess Jesus was out helping the NO Saints that day.

Obama's father was a muslim but Obama those not even follow his father as a muslim , if he did he will not send troops to Afghanistan .

Mistake .

The Americans just voted for Obama so he could return there economy better .

The OP is a load of crap as usual.


Mad that I wasted time reading it.

Wait, so this will make it so that political appointments will have to go through the same OPM process that anyone else would have to for the job? They basically cannot be appointed to a civil service job?

If that's so, what is wrong with that? Sure, republicans are getting kicked now, but democrats will get kicked next time.