Obama To Purge Republicans From The Civil Service

I swear to God, all of our worst fears about this man keep getting fulfilled nearly every day.

Erick Erickson at Red State says “This is what happens in third world kleptocracies and totalitarian regimes.”:

Via Instapundit comes word that the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge the federal government of Republican civil servants all in the name of purify the federal bureaucracy.

You can read the OPM memo here.

It is a typical Washington process that many political appointees are able to take jobs within the civil service once their political appointment expires — usually at the conclusion of one administration. What often happens as well is Congressional staffers, before an election or shortly thereafter, will move over to the Executive Branch placed into the civil service, in effect, by appointment.

So, for example, when George Bush became President in 2001, a number of Clinton political appointees became civil service employees. As a result, they became subject to civil service hiring and firing rules, which meant they could no longer be replaced simply for having been a Democratic appointee.

Barack Obama is changing that. He intends to purge all Republicans from the federal bureaucracy retroactive to five years ago.

Much more at Red State.

Does Obama even care at this point that his popularity ratings are falling? People are slowly waking up to the fact that we have a radical in the White House. This will only reinforce that notion.

UPDATE:

Rush addressed this issue on his show, today, comparing the Obama administration to Venezuela’s  Chavez administration:

Video via Gateway Pundit.

“This is what Marxists do”.

MORE:

Erickson thinks that the recent leaks that have come out of the Pentagon, State Dept. and CIA may be spurring this on:

The Obama administration is increasingly exasperated by leaks of national-security-related information and is planning a major effort to root out and punish those responsible, top officials said Thursday.