The Republican Purge

Before Obama took office he promised to listen to all sides. RedState has some information that shows in fact he doesn't want to listen to anyone but Democrats:

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.

Under his new rules, made retroactive for five years, the Office of Personnel Management will examine civil service employees who got their start as political appointees in the Bush administration and terminate those employees. The order is retroactive to 2004, that moment when a number of Republican congressional staffers and others sought to embed into the second Bush administration right after the election.

Read the rest of it here.

Democrats have a habit of acting as though they'll be a permanent majority, but they won't. Someday there will be a Republican president again and with this new rule change Obama just enabled him to purge his administration of all the socialists and commies being appointed by Obama.

The future Republican president thanks you, Barry.

Will any Democrats object to this change? Remember the outcry over the nine U.S. attorneys that Bush fired? This rule change could conceivably involve hundreds or thousands of appointees. Shouldn't the Democrats show equal concern to these partisan firings?

Of course not. The people being fired this time aren't Democrat allies.