Perino: Obama ‘Should Want’ Bush’s Political Appointees In His Administration»

[babylonsister]

Ya, sure.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/white-house-burrowing/

Perino: Obama ‘Should Want’ Bush’s Political Appointees In His Administration»


The Washington Post reported this morning that between March and November, the Bush administration has “burrowed” at least 20 political appointees into career civil service posts, initially depriving President-elect Obama of the chance to install his own appointees in key jobs.

In today’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino defended the “burrowing,” saying that Obama’s administration should want experienced Bush political appointees in his administration:

PERINO: But there are people in the federal government who — and you should want people who have worked in the administration who think that they might want to make their careers in government. We have a lot of smart people all across the government with a lot of expertise — in the financial sector, in the energy sector, in the environmental sector, the Labor Department, etc.

Watch it at link~

These people are political ideologues, who likely cannot be counted on to implement Obama’s agenda. Matthew McKeown of Bush’s Interior Department promoted private owners “over the public interest on issues such as grazing and logging” and sued to allow road-building in national forests. Interior’s Robert Comer used “pressure and intimidation” to produce a grazing settlement “with total disregard for the concerns raised by career field personnel.”

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has made similar efforts, replacing political appointees with hand-picked career staff. The Wall Street Journal noted that the effort may be perceived as an attempt by Chertoff “to overextend his influence” into the next administration.

In 2006, the House Oversight Committee found that the executive branch had increased the number of political appointees by 33 percent since the Clinton administration, a move that had ramifications across the federal government.

[niyad]

1. I am looking forward to never having to see that blonde twit ever again.

[flor-de-jasmim]

3. Maybe she'll turn up as ghost writer for Palin....

[Warpy]

6. Yeah, talk about begging for job security!

That empty headed ditz still hasn't figured out that her side lost because they fouled up everything they did for eight long years and that even people who thought they'd been trying to do the right thing didn't want any more of it.

If anything exemplified the standards of the Republican Party, it's the promotion of that witless, ignorant blonde to Press Secretary. She was a spokesmodel. She was completely incapable of doing the job.

Don't let the door smack ya, honey.

[Botany]

2. Dana, you are kidding me right?

We have a lot of smart people all across the government with a lot of expertise —
in the financial sector, in the energy sector, in the environmental sector, the Labor
Department, etc.

Financial Sector things are going great there ... worst econ since 1929

Energy Sector how much did exxon make?

the environmental sector global warming is worse than we thought and moving much faster

Labor how many out of work?

[librechik]

4. no evidence of that except for her assertion

my impression is they give all their jobs to clueless cronies who proceeds to fuck things up.

But they are everywhere in government, making it hard to sweep them out.

[babylonsister]

15. Sadly, there is evidence...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4484676&mesg_id=4484676

[rfranklin]

5. They have expertise in screwing up everything they touch...

which is considered a good thing by the anarchic wingnuts who want to destroy the government and all its institutions (except, of course, for the War Department.)

[gratuitous]

7. Just like Bush wanted all those Clinton holdovers, right Dana?

It just never stops with these people, does it? Anything Clinton did, up to and including counterterrorist activities, got immediately shit-canned by these crooks. How'd that work out, Dana? Remember August 6? Remember "Okay, you've covered your ass"? Remember how well that worked out for the people working in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001?

Yeah, Obama's really going to want these hacks, re-treads, has-beens, never-weres and rank incompetents stinking up his administration.

[lib2DaBone]

8. Dana Perino.. the WH Press Secretary who never heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis...

...most people have forgot more than this twit knows. George Bush's "Mouthpiece".. what a 'friggin joke.

[theoldman]

9. After all, Bush's appointees have done such a good job.

This is just another sick joke. BTW, none of the press secretaries have been worth a flip.

[hangman86]

10. Why does she even bother?

Why doesn't she just save the press time by bringing out a wheelbarrow full of crap and a shovel, take a big scoop, hold it out to them, and then leave.

[opihimoimoi]

11. BUT BUT They are CRONIES...and they found a way to stuff the Cronies down America Throat

Thats how much the GOP thinks of Main Street America... who.... gatta foot the friggen bill for their salaries...

The GOP has made CRONYism an ART FORM...

[underpants]

12. Those "burrowed" are sleeper cells

they will be the source of "leaks" and "government official said..."

[SoCalDem]

13. There are ways to rewrite job descriptions, and create NEW positions

above the ones Bushies filled..

and when the DHS dept is abolished and refolded back into the Dept of Defense, where it's always belonged, those little rodents will be scrambnling for jobs at Subway

[lurky]

14. So there is going to be a fifth column of Bushites

hidden in the government to conduct sabotage, leak documents, and spy for the GOP...