Why was all of DC in such rapture over Obama coming to town? Because the liberals who run that town – from top to bottom – knew they had hired a man who would be slavishly devoted to the expansion of Big Government which is one of the three primary occupations of liberals (the other two being MSM and education). The liberal commons of DC were finally rid of that nasty, old President Bush and now there would be uber liberals in all government slots – both career and appointive. No more need to even pretend to be fair to conservatives.
Hans von Spakovsky over at Pajamas Media details how the liberals who run DC – regardless of who is President – ensure that liberalism is predominant by simply not hiring non-liberals. Additionally, of course, there are not a large number of conservatives who try – conservatives tending to despise government and to view government employment as something for the weak-willed, weak-kneed and weak-minded. People who want to do things which require solid, measurable results don’t tend to go in to government work (the military isn’t “government work” by the way – it is an honorable calling, like that of the priesthood). And so liberalism breeds liberalism and while a Republican President can issue orders, the carrying out of his orders are dependent upon people who, at the least, have a general opposition to his views and, at the worst, are determined to thwart his policy.
What to do?
Get rid of them all.
This is a tricky thing – due to the rampant corruption in government hiring in the 19th century (the ill-famed “spoils system” of old), various civil service protections were placed on career government officials to help ensure that people were hired and advanced on merit, not on political affiliation. This probably worked pretty well when the government was tiny and there was a fair chance that roughly equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were interested in government. With the coming of the New Deal, however, things changed – government became massive became a thing not of general public service, but of advancing a particular, political agenda. What Republican would want to join FDR’s program to intrude government into every aspect of life? And so, the make up of government service changed – it became liberal, and liberal it has remained, even though Republicans have controlled the White House a majority of the time post-FDR. We can’t just fire everyone – but we can still make a clean sweep.
We will be returned to power – perhaps as early as 2013 (and, in the House, perhaps as early as 2011), but no latter than 2017. When that happens, our only safety – our only assurance that what we propose is actually carried out – is to furlough as many government employees as possible as soon as office is secured. Ultimately, legislation will be necessary, and that will only be possible if the GOP controls both houses (which might not happen, even if we win the White House in 2012, until after the 2014 mid-terms) – but even without legislation, the President can simply furlough the suspect employees…sure, this will cost tens of millions of dollars in wages to people sitting at home…but better to pay them to watch Oprah than to screw up the United States of America. Once the people are furloughed, a careful review can be done by the Executive Branch to determine which employees should be brought back and which should be replaced – with the entire hiring process entirely in the hands of conservatives.
And that is not the end of it all – the thing is, we’ll never really get conservatism enforced until we de-fund the left. The only thing which keeps the left going is government subsidy (do you really think someone would pay their own money for a feminist studies course in college?) – the government employees are a massive source of this funding, but there are literal thousands of groups out there advancing the leftist agenda on the taxpayer’s dime…and all of these groups would dry up and blow away if the government spigot is cut off. The two things go together – as a for instance: when we pass a law stating that funds must be provided to help unwed mothers, do you think the liberal bureaucrat in DC is going to find the most orthodox, Christian crisis pregnancy center, or find some liberal organization which is actually a mere cover for abortion?
Once the left is de-funded, it will be easy for us to restore America – to return our government to its constitutional functions, and free the American people from the onerous burdens liberalism has imposed over the past 75. We’ll be a genuinely free people again, in control of our own destiny…but only a clean sweep will do it.
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