Wall off the Burrows
Bush political appointees are burrowing in by transforming to civil service.
I say, ok. If they can't be fired, re-assign the sleeper cells (Bush Bombs?) to a special Bush League department, put them each in a cubicle with a 386 computer, monochrome monitor with plenty of burn-in, one-button mouse, and a dial telephone. Give them jobs counting grains of sand.
I say, ok. If they can't be fired, re-assign the sleeper cells (Bush Bombs?) to a special Bush League department, put them each in a cubicle with a 386 computer, monochrome monitor with plenty of burn-in, one-button mouse, and a dial telephone. Give them jobs counting grains of sand.
posted by Pheidias at 11/29/2008 (link)
4 Comments:
I saw this linked on Shakesville a week or two ago, also. The poster there writes:
'I suppose President Obama could transfer these "burrowing" bureaucrats into posts in North Dakota, but that takes months under the rules and does nothing for their pay scale or their place in the pecking order. Basically, the new president would be paying two people for one job position, an easy thing with which the Right could demagogue him as "wasteful" and "political." (Yes, the hypocrisy of them calling Obama's reaction to a political move political is noxious, but that has never stopped the GOP before now.) A related reaction might be to create an entirely new level of administration above the moles, but that invites charges both of "waste" and of "growing government."'
I didn't say it would be practical. Or possible.
Just funny.
In that case, don't you think giving them a mouse is a bit overboard? They should have to record sand-grains by esoteric command-line functions.
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