Quick! attack more dem senators! Chimp is creating a dictatorship

[John_H]

by executive action. Perhaps some DUers took time out from going after Obama to read the WP article about chimp radically changing civil service accross the federal government.

In case not, Chimp will take away all regular payraises and job security, basing them instead uopn evaluations by...you guessed it...Republican patronage workers. What this means is that every federal employee will in effect be a political appointee of the president.

What this also means is that every federal empoloyee will have to tow the GOP line (since every career civil servant must answer to a political appointee)or lose pay, move to ankorage, or get fired. Under the current system political appointees have very little way to coherce civil servants into doing their bidding. And that's a good thing for a host of reasons. Think chimp implements his agenda aggressively now? Wait 'till he's able to fire anyone who might think about slowing things down a bit for the good of the country.

Add this to the other union busting, iraqi torturing, environment polluting, regulation lossening executive action with no senate input and well....never mind....can you believe what a fucking slimeball Russ Feingold is?

[Liberty Belle]

1. Please post a link to the article.

[Pirate Smile]

6. Here you go

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1189933

WP: Civil Service System on Way Out at DHS
White House Wants All Agencies to Have Option of Setting Own Personnel Policies

The Bush administration unveiled a new personnel system for the Department of Homeland Security yesterday that will dramatically change the way workers are paid, promoted, deployed and disciplined -- and soon the White House will ask Congress to grant all federal agencies similar authority to rewrite civil service rules governing their employees.

-snip-
"They are encouraging a management of coercion and intimidation," said John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees. He added: "This is not a modern system. This is a step backward."

[Just Me]

16. Another facet of fascism: suppression of labor.

Labor unions are either destroyed or seriously diminished.

The neoCONimperialists fulfill every defining characteristic of fascism,...all 14 of them!!!

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Sounds like I got out just in time

[rucky]

3. So who's around to stop this dictatorship?

if not the Senate?

[John_H]

5. Uh......you?

The senate can't do anything about executive action, since they don't control the executive branch. You can, though.

[rucky]

9. pithy. n/t

[Guaranteed]

10. Let's all email Bush and tell him we're not going to vote for him

in 2008!

[Pirate Smile]

4. But , but, but, I don't have any energy to go after Bush, I have 32 Dem

Senators to take out first.

Don't you dare bring some perspective in here, I won't have it!

(LOL)

[moggie12]

7. The venting of frustration at our own has died down quite a bit

Today we spent a lot of time daydreaming about the '08 ticket. There seemed to be less mud-slinging than in previous discussions. Perhaps a good sign -- I'm hoping we can get on to more practical matters.

[feelthebreeze]

8. It don't mean a thing...

if it ain't got that string. Post a thread with this kind of info. Can't pass it on nor verify it otherwise.

The winds of change are starting to blow...can you feel the breeze?

[McCamy Taylor]

11. A good reason for SOLIDARITY!

BTW, the Administration has been usurping the power of Congress to write Legislation by creating the equivalent of New Legislation by Admnistrative Decree almost since day one. This has been a favorite ploy of all presidents who are at odds with Congress, however, since the same party runs the White House and Congress the only reason for doing it now is to let the GOP pussies in Congress avoid having to answer to the voters back home.

:mad: :nuke: :mad: :kick:

[John_H]

12. Absolutely right on the money n/t READ THE ABOVE POST

[OneBlueSky]

13. the problem, friend, is that the Democrats are enabling BushCo . . .

at every turn . . . the Patriot Act, the tax cuts for the wealthy, the Iraq war authorization, the recent budget bill, the Rice nomination, etc. etc. etc . . . I'll stop attacking Democrats when they stop voting like Republicans and start standing up for what's right instead of what's expedient . . .

[LaPera]

14. Five more republican Senators in 2006 and

Bush has a dictatorship. (No Filibusters).

And he'll get them with electronic voting machines.

[sendero]

17. Exactly how..

.... would that differ from what we have now?

As long as 2/3 of the Senate is willing to rubber-stamp Bush**'s agenda, remind me again of the advantage of them being there.

[bklyncowgirl]

15. Right wing LOVES left wing circular firing squads note DNC Chair race

The more those who are not allied with the administration fight among themselves the less time and energy they'll have to fight the administration.

In addition to liberals absolutely inscensed at politicians who voted for Condi, (I'll admit I'm one of them) the bigger Democratic infighting story has been conservative establishment elements in the party doing their damndest to stop Howard Dean from winning the DNC chair election.

I am truly hoping that we'll see a relatively united front against Gonzalez and the DNC chairmans race works out in such a way that the party becomes stronger. My hope for the former is pretty high. A vote against Torture Memo Boy is pretty safe--we may even see some moderate Republicans going along for the ride.

As for the DNC, if the Democratic establishment stops pressuring delegates to vote ABD this would be better for the party in the long run. If Dean wins, he may be terrific or he may be terrible. If he loses because of what's perceived of as interference by conservative Democrats who some perceive as regarding Dean as a worse threat as a worse threat to world order than Bush, Cheney, Rummy and Gonzalez all rolled in together, this will seriously damage Democrat's ability to rally together against this administration.