Of course, this isn’t the only thing wrong with government, but it illustrates how government policy gets made purely for the personal agendae of people inside the government and often elected officials just don’t have the in-depth knowledge to even know that they’re being had.

Again, Thanks!

In the book Richardson says we act the way we do because we were raised that way. He essentially says get over it because otherwise we will lose the war.

You can get a copy of the book at the Gun Owners of America website for only $3. Here is the link: http://www.gunowners.com/books1002.htm

And of course reinforces yet again your credo to fire all the bastages as soon as possible.

This is a reply to Achance’s post about it being safe to be a democrat because I can’t clear my cache and it won’t do reply to this.

This is what I hate so much about the party. The country-club set is still in charge at the national level. Just like John McCain they are perfectly willing to turn the machine guns on the party activists, the conservatives. Then they’re total marshmallows when it it comes to dealing with the real enemy.

It has to be remembered, Democrats are THE ENEMY. They are the enemy of America’s traditional values, the enemy of equal justice, the enemy of Americans JUST trying to live their lives freely. In a practical sense, bureaucrats are Democrats unless you know for absolutely certain they’re not.

The key is you must fire all the Democrats. You’re better off leaving positions vacant than either leaving a holdover or putting some incompetent who gave you a grand in the position. The merit system employees will keep it running if for no other reason than it is easier to keep it running than it is to have to fix it if it breaks. Then you organize into functional groups and put a trusted competent Republican manager over each group. It’s a lot like the czar system that Comrade Obama is using. Put a less controversial person up for the statutory head that you can get confirmed without too much blood on the floor but use your czar to really coordinate the Agency’s activities with Administration objectives.

In foreign policy, Democrats are dangerously naive and lamb-like. They want America to be more like the other guys, egalitarian, socialist, and distracted by window dressing.They assume that if we play nice, take the bullets out of our guns, and negotiate in good faith, then the thoroughly dangerous enemies will somehow forget their own agendas and make nicey-nice and share group hugs with us, walking off arm-in-arm into the sunset.

Republicans on the world stage (again, somewhat simplistic) play for blood, play to win, have not the slightest interest in America becoming like the rest of the world. We’re cool with trust-but-verify, but we’ll play “oops I sunk your battleship” too. The number one priority is the American life, American economy, and American interests.

Now we get to the funky part.

In domestic politics, Dems play hard and dirty. They play the long war of creeping takeover. The number one thing is the accumulation of power.

Republicans are poor guile-less souls, willing to make deals, negotiate in good faith even when it’s perfectly obvious the evil opponents will lie, cheat and steal. We seem to want to meet them half-way. We’ll never use the nuclear option and brother, if we wouldn’t filibuster people like Eric Holder and Sonia Sotomayor, we’ll never filibuster anyone.

I just think it’s odd.

Honestly, we in the Murkowski Administration have to take some of the blame; we kept most of them. Murkowski and Clark bought off on the siren song about too much disruption so they didn’t want to fire too many appointees. That’s the dumbest thing a Republican can do; you fire EVERYBODY. You can hire some back after they kiss the ring because there really aren’t that many competent Republicans out there who’ll take a government job. But fundamentally, a Republican is better off leaving the postion vacant and letting a classified employee run a function than he/she is letting a holdover Democrat stay.

I have begun the countdown to your blast off.

There will probably be a chapter in SWMNBN’s book about all cleaning up the HR/LR system in Alaska that was done during the productive three year in office term of of the Governor, ought to put you into orbit….LOL

Just out of curiosity Art, are you thinking about posting a book report on A Message to Garcia? I’d love to see your HR/Union negotiator’s opinion on that testament to socialist, progressive human nature.