--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 3/6/07 1:57:59 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> > jstein@ writes:
> >
> > Thank goodness for the blogs. If it weren't for
> > them (Talking Points Memo especially), the whole
> > scandal about the firing of the U.S. attorneys
> > wouldn't have made a ripple.
> >
> > I think Clinton fired all of them when he came into office
in '92.
>
> Most presidents do that when they come into office,
> of course, and then appoint new ones. But once
> appointed, they're rarely ousted in the middle of
> an administration, and then almost always for cause.
>
Does anyone know the percentage of political appointees vs. career
civil servants per administration? I know there is a large number of
political appointees that are brought in with every new
administration.
