Jackson Jambalaya

But an effectively untouchable body of people in administrative agencies, wielding power that is difficult and expensive to challenge, is not a good thing. Especially where there are those who think that agencies should be the principal public policy making bodies rather than congress because of their better grasp of technical matters. It is difficult to believe that anyone would be so naive as to think that the people running or employed by agencies are somehow immune from political pressure or somehow or another are above having their own political agendas. It is dangerous to give people power without there be being a meaningful check on the use of power.

If you think the government is incompetent now, just wait until ignorant unqualified Trump sycophants are in positions of consequence.

Better go ahead and get your passport now, while you still can.

There's power being held by unelected bureaucrats that belong to the American people. It's time to return that power to the people.

Sounds good to me. Why shouldn't a president have the right to hire and fire who works for them? Here in Ms. we have the right to work law. A company can fire a person anytime they want to. Of course there may be lawsuits later but the government has a lot of lawyers working so that should not be a problem. That might stop some of the problems we saw during Trump's time as president.

Project 2025 will deport any citizens or noncitizens wearing cargo shorts and require preschool education to include dual-wielding pistols as an essential skill.

Thank God we have partisan Bill alerting us to this danger "to democracy" insisting that unelected lifetime bureaucrats follow the guidance of political appointees above them, from either party, instead of implementing their personal political and social bias via mandate in contravention to their oath of office.

How else will groomers carry out their personal desires on our children if they cannot use unions and Fed bureaucrats to cancel those who dissent?

George W. Bush used recess appointments in the last year of his terms to pack agencies with neocons, and hamstring any Democrat that may follow him.

That was the original "deep state," and it was a tactic used by the right. Then they cried "foul," out of fear their own tactic may be used against them.

Ironically, it was some of Trump's own people who gummed up some of his more aggressive initiatives, as they were too much, even for career conservatives.

July 21, 2024 at 12:14 PM, you mean the RINOs that were in Trump's administration. The RINOs that are proud members of the Washington D.C. uni-party? They performed just as expected, that performance protected the status quo. Almost anyone with a functioning brain can see what occurred.

@1:03pm - So… not you?

I rarely read Bill Crawford because he rarely makes a cogent point. I guess Bill thinks Lois Learner and Merrick Garland are not partisan.

I miss James Tulp.

It envisions a partisan bureaucracy because that’s what it is - a partisan bureaucracy. This is an effort to return impartiality to government administration and take away the power of the partisan bureaucrats who spy and lie about anyone who stands in their way. Trump is right when he says, “They aren’t out to get me. They are out to get you and I’m just in their way.”

@8:56 - Trump isn't right about anything. You are the mark and he played you like a fiddle. It's pathetic..

"Here in Ms. we have the right to work law. A company can fire a person anytime they want to."

Except that one has nothing to do with the other.

Right-To-Work allows a person to refuse to join a union where their workplace has a union. Nobody should be forced to join a union as a condition of employment and that's what Right-To-Work prohibits. Has nothing at all to do with termination.

You've twisted At-Will-Employment into your post, which is entirely different.

Trump's executive order, mentioned in the article, was simply a tool in the drain-the-swamp tool-box. It will be reinstated in short order.

Which newly inaugurated president has not quickly fired every US District Attorney who did not carry the water. Don't Google it - The answer is NONE.

Al Gore's brother-in-law was, upon Clinton's inauguration, brought immediately into a supervisory role in the Justice Department. Where was that man from? The answer is Greenville, MS. A double whammy. Nepotism plus he would carry the water.

Bad people should be fired. Bad journalist should not be published.

7:08 am You didn't bother to list Al Gore's brother's qualifications or work experience.

He his undergraduate degree in business at Ole Miss and got his law degree from Duke. He excelled at both universities and was successful enough to serve in government.

He was of the generation who believed in serving your country rather than buying second homes in foreign lands and either yachting or flying on your private plane to them.

The difference between " old money" and "new money" is that new money is shiny.

Personnel is policy. It’s ludicrous to think that our current bureaucracy is not already partisan. Open your eyes.

@8:56 - Trump isn't right about anything. You are the mark and he played you like a fiddle. It's pathetic..

Talk about Pathetic...Keep Singing Your Leftest Tune Until Someone Rips That Dress Offa You & Beats The Snot Outta You When Someone Catches You In The Girls Restroom With Their Wife Or Daughter...Your Cruise Of Madness Is Soon To Hit The Dock...

@9:56 says, “Personnel is policy. It’s ludicrous to think that our current bureaucracy is not already partisan. Open your eyes.”

YES!

Look up the Hatch Act.

Bureaucrats cannot be involved in partisan politics. If they try to do so, they will be fired.

I know more than a few people that I grew up with who served in DC. They went to universities and took graduate courses to qualified for the jobs they held. And, they had to be near the top or at the top of their class to even get an interview.

Only in the Trump administration were people who never had taught a single child put only been in PTA gotten jobs in the Dept. of Education or worse, had experience with dealing in foreign affairs for foreign posts. Trump's most qualified appointments like Kelly and Bolton haven't and finally Barr have told you the truth. You won't listen!

July 23, 2024 at 7:37 AM, that's a sad message you have posted. Sad, indeed, the saddest part being you probably believe what you wrote.