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winetourdriver01

(1,154 posts) Mon Mar 6, 2023, 03:14 PM Mar 2023

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In A Bid For Total Control, GOP Declares War On Civil Servants

Congressional Republicans love turning random bureaucrats into scapegoats for just about everything.
Republicans, usually but not always armed with congressional subpoena power, single out a seemingly random bureaucrat as the face of an all-encompassing, nearly eschatological scandal.

These scandals rarely have grounding in reality, but wreak havoc both on the lives of the civil service employees who turn into their poster children, and create ripple effects throughout the federal bureaucracy.

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In A Bid For Total Control, GOP Declares War On Civil Servants (Original Post) winetourdriver01 Mar 2023 OP

No surprise that those who sit on golden thrones want ... sanatanadharma Mar 2023 #1

sanatanadharma

(3,695 posts)

1. No surprise that those who sit on golden thrones want ...

Reply to winetourdriver01 (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2023, 03:30 PM

Mar 2023

... a return to the gilded-age.

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