One thing the next Democratic president needs to absolutely 100% do “norms and precedent” be damned is fire every single one of the department people appointed by Republicans (obviously not GOP federal workers, but those in power making key decisions).
Every time a Democrat does the “right” thing in office, Republicans don’t and those peo…
One thing the next Democratic president needs to absolutely 100% do “norms and precedent” be damned is fire every single one of the department people appointed by Republicans (obviously not GOP federal workers, but those in power making key decisions).
Every time a Democrat does the “right” thing in office, Republicans don’t and those people in government hamstring Democratic policy priorities (see James Comey, Chris Wray, Louis Dejoy, Jay Powell, Robert Mueller, Merrick Garland as the most obvious examples). Get these people out of government policy on the 1st day in office. It’s that important.
Maybe Biden would have had 2 more years with a trifecta. Maybe Trump wouldn’t have been allowed to run again. Maybe he never would have become president. That’s an enormous outsized negative impact on the party coming tied to only a handful of people that Democrats should have fired immediately and these people never do the right thing when it matters the most.
I’m so sick and tired of these people staying for some old fashioned idea of stability that doesn’t exist anymore. Fire. Them. ALL!
Not only that, we need a Democratic version of DOGE-there's no reason why non-Democrats should be allowed to work in the Federal Government at any level.
Nix on this. We need to return to the professional civil service that goes back to the reforms of Chester A. Arthur. Dragonfire is right to restrict this to political appointees, not career civil servants.
No way. That’s ridiculous. The federal workforce does what their bosses tell them (like any good employee would) and they have a ton of experience that’s invaluable to getting the priorities Democrats want done effectively and efficiently. We can’t just suddenly decide half or a quarter of federal workers can no longer be employed because of partisan affiliation.
They’d take the government to court and win, even if progressive Democratic justices are hearing the case. These people don’t suddenly decide not to do their jobs in the way Democrats want them to because they’re Republicans and if they did, they’d get weeded out pretty quickly. They do what they’re asked to, which means the leaders need to go. Different boss = different job description for them to follow.
As a former federal employee, I can vouch for this 100%. I left during sequestration. My colleagues were absolutely on both sides of the middle, but we supported the mission.
One thing the next Democratic president needs to absolutely 100% do “norms and precedent” be damned is fire every single one of the department people appointed by Republicans (obviously not GOP federal workers, but those in power making key decisions).
Every time a Democrat does the “right” thing in office, Republicans don’t and those people in government hamstring Democratic policy priorities (see James Comey, Chris Wray, Louis Dejoy, Jay Powell, Robert Mueller, Merrick Garland as the most obvious examples). Get these people out of government policy on the 1st day in office. It’s that important.
Maybe Biden would have had 2 more years with a trifecta. Maybe Trump wouldn’t have been allowed to run again. Maybe he never would have become president. That’s an enormous outsized negative impact on the party coming tied to only a handful of people that Democrats should have fired immediately and these people never do the right thing when it matters the most.
I’m so sick and tired of these people staying for some old fashioned idea of stability that doesn’t exist anymore. Fire. Them. ALL!
Not only that, we need a Democratic version of DOGE-there's no reason why non-Democrats should be allowed to work in the Federal Government at any level.
Nix on this. We need to return to the professional civil service that goes back to the reforms of Chester A. Arthur. Dragonfire is right to restrict this to political appointees, not career civil servants.
No way. That’s ridiculous. The federal workforce does what their bosses tell them (like any good employee would) and they have a ton of experience that’s invaluable to getting the priorities Democrats want done effectively and efficiently. We can’t just suddenly decide half or a quarter of federal workers can no longer be employed because of partisan affiliation.
They’d take the government to court and win, even if progressive Democratic justices are hearing the case. These people don’t suddenly decide not to do their jobs in the way Democrats want them to because they’re Republicans and if they did, they’d get weeded out pretty quickly. They do what they’re asked to, which means the leaders need to go. Different boss = different job description for them to follow.
As a former federal employee, I can vouch for this 100%. I left during sequestration. My colleagues were absolutely on both sides of the middle, but we supported the mission.