...has hired a generation of right-wing civil servants who will take decades more to age out.
Most of the political appointees who head gov't bureaus, departments, and and Cabinet-level positions phase out as soon as the new POTUS gets around to making his appointments. The cases such as at DoJ are notable and newsworthy because they aren't commonplace. The non-political tier of civil service, which is the vast majority, is still merit-based (the non-merit part of that is mainly networking (i.e. who-you-know) at work, not ideological litmus testing).
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Date: 2008-11-04 03:39 pm (UTC)Most of the political appointees who head gov't bureaus, departments, and and Cabinet-level positions phase out as soon as the new POTUS gets around to making his appointments. The cases such as at DoJ are notable and newsworthy because they aren't commonplace. The non-political tier of civil service, which is the vast majority, is still merit-based (the non-merit part of that is mainly networking (i.e. who-you-know) at work, not ideological litmus testing).