Obama to Pick Former Bush Official to Lead F.B.I.

[merrily]

162. And, of course that is the truth from heaven, simply because Obama said it.

Obama says anything to rationalize what he wants to do.

First, changes in the Executive Branch were never based on administration but on political party. Every President before Obama cleaned house if his predecessor in office was from a different political Party. Not 100% change, necessarily, but a lot.

So, Reagan cleaned House, Poppy Bush did not, Clinton did and Bush did (and Obama certainly should have).

And that was always the intent. That is why they were called "political positions," as distinguished from civil service positions, in which federal employees stay for all their careers. For that very reason, we howled when Cheney started changing poliltical positions to civil service positions. We did not want Republican holdovers.

Why? Elections are supposed to have consequences, not only the President, because everything is not about the Obama, but the entire Executive Branch. That has been the understanding all along, until President Barack my policies are those of a moderate Republican Obama took office. Voters not only expect that, they deserve it. Hell, even Leslie Graham admits that. Elections are not just about changing which face in the Oval Office is going to blame everything on Congress, even at times when he is head of the party that controls Congress.

Despite changes in the Executive Branch every time that the political party of the President changed, no one ever had trouble accepting any part of the Executive Branch. Name one instance when someone committed a crime or did not go to jail or refused to let an ambassador into an embassy or refused to accept mail simply because a Republican appointed Republicans to political positions or a Democrat appointed Democrats to political positions.

But, sure. If Obama says it, it must true.